1823 in literature

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Contents 1 Events 2 New books 3 New drama 4 Poetry 5 Non-fiction 6 Births 7 Deaths 8 Awards

[edit] Events

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

[edit] New books

• James Fenimore Cooper
  • The Pilot
  • The Pioneers
• John Galt - The Entail
• Thomas Gaspey - Monks of Leadenhead
• Sarah Green - The Nieces
• Jane Harvey - Mountalyth
• William Hazlitt - Liber Amoris
• Grace Kennedy – Father Clement
• Caroline Lamb - Ada Reis
• Mary Meeke - What Shall Be, Shall Be
• John Neal – Logan
• Quintin Poyney - The Wizard Priest and the Witch
• Sir Walter Scott - Quentin Durward
• Mary Shelley - Valperga
• John Wilson - The Trials of Margaret Lyndsay

[edit] New drama

• Eugène Scribe - Le Menteur Veridique

[edit] Poetry

• Alphonse de Lamartine - Nouvelles méditations poétiques
• Percy Bysshe Shelley - Posthumous Poems

[edit] Non-fiction

• John Franklin - Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea
• Louis Thiers - Histoire de la Révolution française

[edit] Births

• January 1 - Sándor Petőfi, poet (m. 1849)
• March 20 - Ned Buntline, publisher, writer, (+ 1886)
• August 13 - Goldwin Smith, historian and journalist

[edit] Deaths

• February 7 - Ann Radcliffe, novelist

[edit] Awards