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EVENTS

NEW BOOKS

'' The Age We Live In '' - Louisa Stanhope

'' Angelo Guicciardini '' - Sophia Frances

'' Coelebs In Search Of A Wife '' - Hannah More ''

'' Diedrich Knickerbocker's History Of New York '' - Washington Irving

'' Don Sebastian '' - Anna Maria Porter

'' Elective Affinities '' - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

'' English Bards And Scotch Reviewers '' - Lord Byron

'' Ennui And Manoeuvering '' - Maria Edgeworth

''Fables'' - Ivan Kriloff

'' The Friend '' (periodical, through 1810) - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

'' Gertrude Of Wyoming '' - Thomas Campbell

'' The Iron Mask '' - J. P. Hunt

'' Laughton Priory '' - Mary Meeke

'' The Lords Of Erith '' - Catherine Manners

'' The Martyrs '' - François-René De Chateaubriand

'' Memoirs Of An American Lady '' - Anne Grant

'' Monte Video '' - Elizabeth Thomas

'' The Mysterious Novice '' - Sarah Wilkinson

'' The Mysterious Orphan '' - Mary Pilkington

'' The Novitiate De Rousillon '' - Henrietta Maria Young

'' Osrick '' - Richard Sicklemore

'' Romance Of The Pyrenees '' - Catherine Cuthbertson

'' Tales Of The Manor '' - Sarah Green

NEW DRAMA

Heinrich Von Kleist - ''Die Hermannschlacht''

BIRTHS

January 19 - Edgar Allan Poe , writer (d. 1849 )

March 6 - David Bates , American poet (d. 1870 )

March 31 - Nikolai Gogol , writer (d. 1852 )

March 31 - Edward Fitzgerald , translator of Omar Khayyám (d. 1883 )

August 6 - Alfred Tennyson , poet (d. 1892 )

August 29 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. , poet (d. 1894 )

DEATHS

March 11 - Hannah Cowley , dramatist and poet

March 25 - Anna Seward , the "Swan of Lichfield"

June 8 - Thomas Paine , writer

AWARDS