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EVENTS

Julia Beckwith Hart becomes the first Canadian female writer to be published.

NEW BOOKS

'' The Albigenses '' - Charles Maturin

'' Charlotte's Daughter '' - Haswell Rowson

'' Hajji Baba Of Ispahan '' - James Morier

'' Hobomok '' - Lydia Maria Child

'' The Homicide '' - Mary Charlton

'' The Inheritance '' - Susan Ferrier

'' Our Village '' - Mary Russell Mitford

'' Private Memoirs And Confessions Of A Justified Sinner '' - James Hogg

'' Redwood '' - Catharine Maria Sedgwick

'' St. Ronon's Well '' - Sir Walter Scott

'' St. Ursula's Convent '' - Julia Beckwith Hart

'' The Siege Of Kenilworth '' - Louisa Stanhope

''Theresa Marchment, or The Maid of Honour'' - Catherine Gore

'' The Tradition Of The Castle '' - Regina Marie Roche

POETRY

Giacomo Leopardi - ''Canzoni'' and ''Versi''

NON-FICTION

August Böckh - ''Corpus Inscriptionum Graecum''

BIRTHS

January 7 - Julia Kavanagh (+ 1877 )

January 8 - Wilkie Collins (+ 1889 )

May 19 - William Allingham (+ 1889 )

December 10 - George MacDonald (+ 1905 )

DEATHS

March 2 - Haswell Rowson , author

April 19 - Lord Byron , poet

October 30 - Charles Maturin

AWARDS

March - Samuel Taylor Coleridge elected FRSL