1828 in literature

The year 1828 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

 * The first volume of John James Audubon's 10-volume The Birds of America is published.
 * Noah Webster publishes his 70,000 word American Dictionary of the English Language.
 * Nikolai Gogol leaves school and goes to Saint Petersburg.
 * Elizabeth Caroline Grey publishes The Skeleton Count, or The Vampire Mistress in the penny dreadful The Casket, the first vampire story published by a woman author.

New books

 * Anna Eliza Bray - The White Hoods: an Historical Romance
 * Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton - Pelham
 * George Croly - Salathiel
 * Selina Davenport - Italian Vengeance and English Forbearance
 * Elizabeth Caroline Grey - De Lisle
 * Gerald Griffin - The Collegians
 * Jane Harvey - The Ambassador's Secretary
 * Ann Hatton - Uncle Peregrine's Heiress
 * Nathaniel Hawthorne - Fanshawe
 * Robert Huish - The Red Barn
 * Washington Irving - The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus
 * Jane C. Loudon - The Mummy!
 * The Lustful Turk (anonymous)
 * John Neal - Rachel Dyer
 * Susanna Rowson - Lucy Temple
 * Sir Walter Scott - The Fair Maid of Perth
 * Rosalia St. Clair - Ulrica of Saxony

New drama

 * Franz Grillparzer - Ein Treuer Diener
 * Johan Ludvig Heiberg - Elverhøi

Poetry

 * Adam Mickiewicz - Konrad Wallenrod

Non-fiction

 * George Combe - The Constitution of Man
 * Barbara Hofland - Africa Described, in Its Ancient and Present State
 * Washington Irving - The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus

Births

 * February 8 - Jules Verne, novelist and science fiction pioneer  (d. 1905)
 * February 12 - George Meredith, novelist and poet (d. 1909)
 * February 14 - Edmond About, novelist and journalist (d. 1885)
 * March 20 - Henrik Johan Ibsen, dramatist (d. 1906)
 * April 4 - Margaret Oliphant (d. 1897)
 * May 12 - Dante Gabriel Rossetti   (d. 1882)
 * September 9 - Leo Tolstoy, novelist (d. 1910)
 * September 17 - Louise Flodin, journalist (d. 1923)
 * October 8 - Francisque Sarcey, journalist and critic (d. 1899)

Deaths

 * January 16 - Johann Samuel Ersch, bibliographer
 * January 26 - Lady Caroline Lamb, novelist and lover of Lord Byron
 * March 16 - Johann Georg August Galletti, historian
 * April 25 - François Benoît Hoffmann, dramatist and critic
 * June 8 - William Coxe, historian
 * June 11 - Dugald Stewart, philosopher
 * June 21 - Leandro Fernández de Moratín, Spanish dramatist & poet
 * October 13 - Vincenzo Monti, poet
 * date unknown - Henry Beekman Livingston, poet

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