1819 in literature

Events

• In England, Richard Carlile[?] (1790-1843) is convicted of blasphemy and sent to prison for publishing Age of Reason[?] by Thomas Paine (1737-1809).

• In the United States, between 1819 and 1820, Washington Irving publishes his novel The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon[?] that includes the stories The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip van Winkle.

New Books

• Any Thing But What You Expect[?] - Jane Harvey[?]
• The Black Robber[?] - Edward Ball[?]
• The Bride of Lammermoor[?] - Sir Walter Scott
• The Oath of Vengeance[?] - Anne Hatton[?]
• Odes[?] (poetry) - John Keats
• The Recluse of Albyn Hall[?] - Zara Wentworth[?]
• The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon[?] - Washington Irving
• The Son of O'Donnel[?] - Rosalia St. Clair[?]
• The Vampyre[?] - John William Polidori
• The Veiled Protectress[?] - Mary Meeke[?]

Births

• January 1 - Arthur Hugh Clough, poet (+ 1861)
• February 22 - James Russell Lowell, poet (+ 1891)
• May 31 - Walt Whitman, poet (+ 1892)
• August 1 - Herman Melville (+ 1891)
• November 22 - George Eliot (+ 1880)

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