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EVENTS

In the first known obscenity case in the United States , a Massachusetts court outlawed the John Cleland novel, '' Fanny Hill ''. The publisher, Peter Holmes, was convicted for printing a "lewd and obscene" novel.

August 4 - Atkinson & Alexander publish the '' Saturday Evening Post '' for the first time as a weekly Newspaper .

NEW BOOKS

'' Annals Of The Parish '' - John Galt

'' The Ayrshire Legatees '' - John Galt

'' Confessions Of An English Opium Eater '' - Thomas De Quincey

'' The Irish Necromancer '' - Thomas H. Marshall

'' Kenilworth '' - Sir Walter Scott

'' Life In London '' - Pierce Egan

'' Lovers And Friends '' - Ann Hatton

'' Maid Marian '' - Thomas Love Peacock

'' Smarra '' - Charles Nodier

'' The Spectre Of St. Michael's '' - C. D. Haynes

'' The Spy '' - James Fenimore Cooper

'' Talisman, A Tale Of Mystery '' - I. M. H. Hales

''Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre ( Wilhelm Meister's Travels )'' - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

'' The Village Of Mariendorpt '' - Anna Maria Porter

NEW DRAMA

Alexandre-Vincent Pineux Duval - ''Le Faux Bonhomme''

Franz Grillparzer - ''Das Goldene Vliess''

POETRY

Heinrich Heine - ''Poems''

Alessandro Manzoni - ''Il Cinque Maggio''

NON-FICTION

George Grote - ''Statement of the Question of Parliamentary Reform''

William Hazlitt - ''Table Talk''

James Mill - ''Elements of Political Economy''

Robert Southey - ''Life of Cromwell''

BIRTHS

March 19 - Richard Francis Burton (+ 1890 )

April 9 - Charles-Pierre Baudelaire (+ 1867 )

October 30 - Fyodor Dostoevsky (+ 1881 )

November 28 - Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov (+ 1877)

December 6 - Dora Greenwell (+ 1882 )

December 12 - Gustave Flaubert (+ 1880 )

DEATHS

February 23 - John Keats , poet

February 26 - Joseph De Maistre , philosopher

March 17 - Louis-Marcelin De Fontanes , poet

May 2 - Hester Thrale , diarist and friend of Dr Johnson

August 1 - Elizabeth Inchbald , writer

AWARDS