1824 in literature

1824 in literature

The year 1824 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

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

New books

*Mary Charlton - "The Homicide"
*Lydia Maria Child - "Hobomok"
*James Fenimore Cooper - ""
*Susan Ferrier - "The Inheritance"
*Catherine Gore - "Theresa Marchment, or The Maid of Honour"
*Julia Beckwith Hart - "St. Ursula's Convent"
*James Hogg - "The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner"
*Washington Irving - "Tales of a Traveller
*Charles Maturin - "The Albigenses"
*Mary Russell Mitford - "Our Village"
*James Morier - "Hajji Baba of Ispahan"
*Regina Marie Roche - "The Tradition of the Castle"
*Susanna Haswell Rowson - "Charlotte's Daughter"
*Sir Walter Scott
**"St. Ronan's Well"
**"Redgauntlet"
*Catharine Maria Sedgwick - "Redwood"
*Louisa Stanhope - "The Siege of Kenilworth"

New drama

*Aleksandr Griboyedov - "Woe from Wit"

Poetry

*Giacomo Leopardi - "Canzoni" and "Versi"
*Alfred de Vigny - "Éloa, ou La sœur des anges"

Non-fiction

*August Böckh - "Corpus Inscriptionum Graecum"

Births

* January 7 - Julia Kavanagh (+ 1877)
* January 8 - Wilkie Collins (+ 1889)
* May 19 - William Allingham (+ 1889)
* July 27 - Alexandre Dumas, fils (+ 1895)
* December 10 - George MacDonald (+ 1905)

Deaths

* March 2 - Susanna Haswell Rowson, author
* April 19 - Lord Byron, poet
* October 30 - Charles Maturin

Awards

* March - Samuel Taylor Coleridge elected FRSL


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