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Events relating to literature
English author Jane Austen publishes her first work in print, Sense and Sensibility, at her own expense
The first two cantos are published of Byron's largely autobiographical poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, bringing him immediate fame
Pride and Prejudice, based on a youthful work of 1797 called First Impressions, is the second of Jane Austen's novels to be published
US lawyer Francis Scott Key writes The Star-Spangled Banner after seeing the British bombard Fort McHenry
US poet William Cullen Bryant publishes Thanatopsis, written seven years previously at the age of 16
Percy Bysshe Shelley publishes probably his best-known poem, the sonnet Ozymandias
In The World as Will and Idea Schopenhauer develops the bleakest possible view of the effects of the human will
Two of Jane Austen's novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, are published in the year after her death
Mary Shelley publishes Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus, a Gothic tale about giving life to an artificial man
Mary Anne Evans (known now as George Eliot) is born in the parish of Chilvers Coton in Warwickshire
William Cobbett brings back to England the bones of Thomas Paine, who died in the USA in 1809
Byron begins publication in parts of his longest poem, Don Juan an epic satirical comment on contemporary life
Walter Scott publishes Ivanhoe, a tale of love, tournaments and sieges at the time of the crusades
Washington Irving tells the story of the long sleep of Rip Van Winkle in his Sketch Book
English poet John Keats publishes Ode to a Nightingale, inspired by the bird's song in his Hampstead garden
English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley publishes Ode to the West Wind, written mainly in a wood near Florence
7-year-old Henry Wadsworth Longfellow has a poem published in a newspaper in his home town of Portland, Maine
Russian poet Alexander Pushkin publishes his first long poem, Ruslan and Ludmilla
English author Thomas De Quincey publishes his autobiographical Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
English poet John Keats dies in Rome at the age of twenty-five
English radical William Cobbett begins his journeys round England, published in 1830 as Rural Rides
The Spy, a romance set in the American Revolution, establishes the reputation of US author James Fenimore Cooper
English author William Hazlitt publishes Table Talk, a two-volume collection that includes most of his best-known essays
The spoken language of the Cherokee Indians is captured in written form – an achievement traditionally attributed to Sequoyah
James Fenimore Cooper's The Pioneers introduces Natty Bumppo, frontiersman known for his 'leather stockings'
