1824 in literature

Events

• Julia Beckwith Hart[?] becomes the first Canadian female writer to be published.

New Books

• The Albigenses[?] - Charles Robert Maturin[?]
• Charlotte's Daughter[?] - Haswell Rowson[?]
• Hajji Baba of Ispahan[?] - James Morier[?]
• Hobomok[?] - Lydia Maria Child[?]
• The Homicide[?] - Mary Charlton[?]
• The Inheritance[?] - Susan Ferrier[?]
• Our Village[?] - Mary Russell Mitford[?]
• Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner[?] - James Hogg
• Redwood[?] - Catharine Maria Sedgwick[?]
• St. Ronon's Well[?] - Sir Walter Scott
• St. Ursula's Convent[?] - Julia Beckwith Hart[?]
• The Siege of Kenilworth[?] - Louisa Stanhope[?]
• The Tradition of the Castle[?] - Regina Marie Roche[?]

Births

• January 8 - Wilkie Collins (+ 1889)
• May 19 - William Allingham (+ 1889)
• December 10 - George MacDonald (+ 1905)

Deaths

• March 2 - Haswell Rowson[?], author
• April 19 - Lord Byron, poet

Awards

• March - Samuel Taylor Coleridge elected FRSL