1823 in literature

Events

• Clement Moore[?]'s poem, A Visit from St. Nicholas[?] introduces the character named "Santa Claus".

New Books

• Ada Reis[?] - Caroline Lamb
• The Entail[?] - John Galt[?]
• Liber Amoris[?] - William Hazlitt
• Monks of Leadenhead[?] - Thomas Gaspey[?]
• Mountalyth[?] - Jane Harvey[?]
• Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea[?] - John Franklin[?]
• The Nieces[?] - Sarah Green[?]
• The Pilot[?] - James Fenimore Cooper
• The Pioneers[?] - James Fenimore Cooper
• Posthumous Poems[?] - Percy Bysshe Shelley
• Quentin Durward[?] - Sir Walter Scott
• Valperga[?] - Mary Shelley
• What Shall Be, Shall Be[?] - Mary Meeke[?]
• The Wizard Priest and the Witch[?] - Quintin Poyney[?]

Births

• March 20 - Ned Buntline[?], publisher, writer, (+ 1886)
• December 24 - Matthew Arnold (+ 1888)

Deaths

• February 7 - Ann Radcliffe, poet

Awards