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2 New Books

• The Abbess of Valtiera - Agnes Lancaster
• The Antiquary - Sir Walter Scott
• Brougham Castle - Jane Harvey
• Chronicles of an Illustrious House - Anne Hatton
• Craig Melrose Abbey - Henrietta Roviere
• Emma - Jane Austen
• English Quaker - John Hoyland
• Glenarvon - Caroline Lamb
• Headlong Hall - Thomas Love Peacock
• Ilderim, a Syrian Tale - Henry Gally Knight
• The Itching Parrot - Jose Joaquin Fernandez De Lizardi
• Kubla Khan (written in 1797) and Christabel - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• The Maid of Moscow - Barbara Hofland
• The Original of the Miniature - Selina Davenport
• The Orphan of Tintern Abbey - Sophia F.Ziegenhirt
• Owen Castle - Ann Sullivan
• The Reformist - Sarah Green
• Statesman's Manual - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

3 Births

• April 21- Charlotte BrontëCharlotte Bront ( April 21, 1816 March 31, 1855) was an English writer. Bronte was born at Thornton, in Yorkshire, England, the eldest surviving daughter of a clergyman, Patrick Bronte (who had changed his surname from Brunty or Prunty) and his wife, Mari (+ 1855Events Births January 5 King Camp Gillette, inventor († 1932) January 21 John Moses Browning, inventor († 1926) January 28 William Seward Burroughs, inventor of the calculator († 1898) March 13 Percival Lowell, astronomer († 19)

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