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1 Events

• Lord Byron begins writing Don Juan
• Series of lectures on poetry, drama, philosophy - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

2 New Books

• An Angel's Form and a Devil's Heart - Selina Davenport
• The Bandit's Bride - Louisa Stanhope
• Endymion (poem) - John Keats
• Family Shakespeare - Thomas Bowdler
• The Fast of St. Magdalen: A Romance - Anna Maria Porter
• Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
• The Friend - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• The Heart of Midlothian - Sir Walter Scott
• Marriage - Susan Edmonstoune FerrierSusan Edmonstoune Ferrier ( 1782 1854), novelist, daughter of James Ferrier, one of the principal clerks of the Court of Session, in which office he was the colleague of Sir Walter Scott. Miss Ferrier wrote three excellent novels, Marriage (1818), The Inh
• Nightmare Abbey - Thomas Love PeacockThomas Love Peacock ( October 18, 1785 January 23, 1866) was an English satirist and author. Peacock was born in Dorset, England. He was a close friend of Percy Bysshe Shelley and they influenced each other's work. He wrote satirical novels, each with the
• Northanger AbbeyNorthanger Abbey was the first of Austen's novels to be completed for publication, though she had previously made a start on Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice''. According to Cassandra Austen's Memorandum, Susan (as it was first called) 'was w - Jane AustenJane Austen ( December 16, 1775 July 18, 1817) was a prominent British novelist whose work is considered part of the Western canon. She stands as a model of the writer whose apparently sheltered life did nothing to reduce the stature and drama of her fict
• The Nun of Santa Maria di Tindaro - Louisa Stanhope
• OzymandiasThis article is about Shelley's poem. For other uses, see Ozymandias (disambiguation). Ozymandias I met a traveller from an antique land, Who said: "two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. near them, on the sand, Half sunk a shattered vi - Percy Bysshe ShelleyPercy Bysshe Shelley ( August 4, 1792 July 8, 1822) was an English Romantic poet. He is now most famous for poems such as " Ozymandias", " Ode to the West Wind", "To a Skylark", and "The Masque of Anarchy"; for his association with contemporaries John Kea
• PersuasionPersuasion is the last novel Jane Austen wrote, and generally considered the most romantic. Jane Austen began her last book soon after she had finished Emma and completed it in August, 1816. Persuasion is connected with Northanger Abbey not only by the fa - Jane AustenJane Austen ( December 16, 1775 July 18, 1817) was a prominent British novelist whose work is considered part of the Western canon. She stands as a model of the writer whose apparently sheltered life did nothing to reduce the stature and drama of her fict
• Rob Roy - Sir Walter Scott
• Sappho - Franz Grillparzer
• Secrets in Every Mansion - Anne Hatton
• The Veiled Protectress - Mary Meeke
• Woman, or Minor Maxims; a Sketch - Elizabeth Thomas