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EVENTS

Jippensha Ikku begins work on the first of the satirical novels, '' Shank's Mare ''.

William Wordsworth marries Mary Hutchinson

NEW BOOKS

'' The Accusing Spirit '' - Mary Pilkington

'' Astonishment!!! '' - Francis Lathom

'' The Baron's Daughter '' - Isabella Kelly

'' Belinda '' - Maria Edgeworth

'' Delphine '' - Anne Louise Germaine De Stael

'' The Farmer's Boy '' - Elizabeth Gunning

'' The History Of The Grubthorpe Family '' - Rachel Hunter

'' Independence '' - Mary Meeke

'' Justina '' - Harriet Ventum

'' Midnight Weddings '' - Mary Meeke

'' The Minstrelsy Of The Scottish Border '' - Sir Walter Scott

'' René '' - François-René De Chateaubriand

'' The Rules Of The Forest '' - Susannah Oakes

'' The Soldiers Of Dierenstein '' - Elizabeth Craven

'' Warkfield Castle '' - Jane Harvey

'' The White Knight '' - Theodore Melville

NEW DRAMA

Charles-Guillaume Étienne - '' Les Deux Mères ''

NON-FICTION

Jeremy Bentham - ''Civil War and Penal Legislation''

François-René De Chateaubriand - '' The Genius Of Christianity ''

John Debrett - first edition of '' Debrett's Peerage ''

John Home - '' History Of The Rebellion Of 1745 '' -

Malcolm Laing - '' History Of Scotland From The Union Of The Crowns To The Union Of The Kingdoms ''

Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Von Schelling - '' Bruno oder über das göttliche und natürliche Prinzip der Dinge''

Daniel Webster - ''The Rights of Neutral Nations in Time of War''

BIRTHS

January 9 - Catharine Parr Traill , author (+ 1899 )

February 11 - Lydia Child , author (+ 1880 )

February 26 - Victor Hugo , author (+ 1885 )

June 2 - Karl Lehrs , classical scholar

June 12 - Harriet Martineau , British writer (+ 1876 )

July 10 - Robert Chambers , Scottish writer, publisher (+ 1871 )

July 24 - Alexandre Dumas, Père , novelist (+ 1870 )

July 28 - Winthrop Mackworth Praed , English poet

August 25 - Nikolaus Lenau , poet

November 29 - Wilhelm Hauff , poet and novelist

December 23 - Sara Coleridge , author, daughter of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

DEATHS

February 26 - Alexander Geddes , theologian

April 18 - Erasmus Darwin , poet, grandfather of Charles Darwin

June 5 - Johann Christian Gottlieb Ernesti , classical scholar

June 29 - Johann Jakob Engel

August 10 - Franz Aepinus , philosopher

AWARDS