1828 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1828.

Events

January – Thomas Dale becomes the first university professor of English language and literature, at the new London University.^[1]
April 1 – The Athenæum, "London Literary and Critical Journal", is launched by James Silk Buckingham.
February 21 – The Cherokee Phœnix, the first newspaper published by Native Americans in the United States and in one of their indigenous languages (Cherokee), is first issued in New Echota.
Noah Webster publishes his 70,000 word American Dictionary of the English Language.
Nikolai Gogol leaves school and goes to Saint Petersburg.
Elizabeth Caroline Grey's The Skeleton Count, or The Vampire Mistress is published in the penny dreadful The Casket; it is the first vampire story published by a woman author.
John Payne Collier produces a script of Punch and Judy.^[2]
The Reclam publishing company is established in Leipzig by Anton Philipp Reclam.
The Raczyński Library in Poznań is completed.

Steen Steensen Blicher – Sildig Opvaagnen
Anna Eliza Bray – The White Hoods: an Historical Romance
John Benjamin Brookes (published anonymously) – The Lustful Turk
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton – Pelham
George Croly – Salathiel
Selina Davenport – Italian Vengeance and English Forbearance
Thomas Gaspey – The History of George Godfrey
Léon Gozlan – Les Mémoires d'un apothécaire
Elizabeth Caroline Grey – De Lisle
Gerald Griffin – The Collegians
Jane Harvey – The Ambassador's Secretary
Ann Hatton – Uncle Peregrine's Heiress
Nathaniel Hawthorne – Fanshawe
Robert Huish – The Red Barn
Bernhard Severin Ingemann – Erik Menveds Barndom (Erik Menved's Childhood)
Jane C. Loudon – The Mummy!
John Neal – Rachel Dyer
Susanna Rowson – Lucy Temple
Sir Walter Scott – The Fair Maid of Perth (or St. Valentine's Day; Chronicles of the Canongate, 2nd series)
Rosalia St. Clair – Ulrica of Saxony

Alfred de Vigny – Roméo et Juliette and Shylock (adaptations from Shakespeare, published)
Franz Grillparzer – Ein Treuer Diener
Johan Ludvig Heiberg – Elves' Hill (Elverhøi)
Henrik Hertz – Flyttedagen
Victor Hugo – Amy Robsart
Mary Russell Mitford – Rienzi: a tragedy
Jovan Sterija Popović – Miloš Obilić
Émile Souvestre – Siege de Missolonghi
Gotthilf August von Maltitz – Hans Kohlhaas

February 8 – Jules Verne, French novelist and science fiction writer (died 1905)
February 12 – George Meredith, English novelist and poet (died 1909)
February 14 – Edmond About, French novelist and journalist (died 1885)
March 20 – Henrik Johan Ibsen, Norwegian dramatist (died 1906)
April 4 – Margaret Oliphant, Scottish novelist and historical writer (died 1897)
May 12 – Dante Gabriel Rossetti, English poet and artist (died 1882)
September 9 – Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist (died 1910)
September 17 – Louise Flodin, Swedish journalist (died 1923)
October 8 – Francisque Sarcey, French journalist and critic (died 1899)

January 5 – Kobayashi Issa (小林一茶), Japanese haiku poet (born 1763)
January 16 – Johann Samuel Ersch, German bibliographer (born 1766)
January 26 – Lady Caroline Lamb, English novelist (born 1785)
February 7 – Henry Neele, English poet and scholar (born 1798)
February 29 – Henry Beekman Livingston, American poet (born 1748)
March 16 – Johann Georg August Galletti, German historian (born 1750)
March 28 – Frances Burney, English dramatist (born 1776)
April 25 – François-Benoît Hoffman, French dramatist and critic (born 1760)
May 28 – Anne Seymour Damer, English sculptor and novelist (born 1749)
June 8 – William Coxe, English historian and travel writer (born 1747)
June 11 – Dugald Stewart, Scottish Enlightenment philosopher (born 1753)
June 21 – Leandro Fernández de Moratín, Spanish dramatist and poet (born 1760)
October 13 – Vincenzo Monti, Italian poet and dramatist (born 1754)
November 8 – Thomas Bewick, English writer and natural historian (born 1753)
Unknown dates – William Cardell, American grammarian and story writer for boys (born 1780)

↑ "Thomas Dale (1797–1870)". UCL Bloomsbury Project. UCL. 2011-04-07. Retrieved 2015-02-14.
↑ "Icons, a portrait of England 1820-1840". Archived from the original on 22 September 2007. Retrieved 2007-09-12.

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