1824 in literature

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The year 1824 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

January 24 - First issue of the radical quarterly founded by Jeremy Bentham, The Westminster Review, is published in London.
February 15 - Lord Byron falls ill at Missolonghi while taking part in the Greek War of Independence, dying of fever on April 19.
May 17 - The publisher John Murray, together with five of Lord Byron's friends and executors, decides to destroy the manuscript of Byron's memoirs (which he has been given to publish) because he considers the scandalous details would damage Byron's reputation. Opposed only by Thomas Moore, the two volumes of memoirs are dismembered and burnt in the fireplace at the John Murray (publisher)'s office, 50 Albemarle Street in London.^[1]
June 21 - The Vagrancy Act in England provides for the prosecution of "every Person wilfully exposing to view, in any Street... or public Place, any obscene Print, Picture, or other indecent Exhibition".
Julia Catherine Beckwith's St. Ursula’s Convent or, The Nun of Canada; Containing Scenes from Real Life becomes the first novel published in Canada by a native-born Canadian (anonymously).
The United States Literary Gazette, a semi-monthly, begins publication. It publishes poetry by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and William Cullen Bryant, among many others.^[2]
The periodicals The Children's Friend and The Child's Companion both publish their first issues.

William Cardell - The Story of Jack Halyard, the Sailor Boy
Mary Charlton - The Homicide
Lydia Maria Child - Hobomok
James Fenimore Cooper (anonymously) - The Pilot: A Tale of the Sea (published January, dated 1823)
Susan Ferrier - The Inheritance
Catherine Gore - Theresa Marchment, or The Maid of Honour
James Hogg (anonymously) - The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
Washington Irving (as 'Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.') - Tales of a Traveller
Charles Maturin - The Albigenses
Mary Russell Mitford - Our Village
James Justinian Morier - Hajji Baba of Ispahan
Regina Marie Roche - The Tradition of the Castle
Susanna Rowson - Charlotte's Daughter
Sir Walter Scott (anonymously) - Redgauntlet
Catharine Maria Sedgwick - Redwood
Louisa Stanhope - The Siege of Kenilworth

January 7 - Julia Kavanagh, Irish novelist (died 1877)
January 8 - Wilkie Collins, English mystery novelist (died 1889)
May 19 - William Allingham, Irish poet (died 1889)
July 27 - Alexandre Dumas, fils, French novelist (died 1895)
December 10 - George MacDonald, Scottish author, poet, and Christian minister (died 1905)

January 28 - John Larpent, English theatrical censor (born 1741)
March 2 - Susanna Rowson, American novelist, poet, playwright, religious writer, stage actress and educator (born 1762)
April 19 - Lord Byron, English poet (born 1788)
October 30 - Charles Maturin, Anglo-Irish writer of "gothic" plays and novels (born 1782)

↑ Eisler, Benita. Byron: Child of Passion, Fool of Fame. p. 3.
↑ Burt, Daniel S. (2004). The Chronology of American Literature: America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 978-0-618-16821-7.
↑ Theodric; a domestic tale; and other poems
↑ The Arch of Titus: The Newdigate prize poem, recited in the Theatre, Oxford, June 30, 1824 (Newdigate Prize poem). Baxter, 1824.

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