Events New Books Aurora - Camilla Dufour The Chateau de Montville - Sarah Wilkinson Frederick Montravers - Sophia Woodfall The Kinsmen of Naples - Mary Julia Young Lucy Osmond - Alicia Lefanu Margaret of Strafford - Anne Louise Germaine de Stael Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist - Charles Brockden Brown Moss Cliff Abbey - Mary Julia Young Principles of Population - Thomas Malthus The Romance of the Pyrenees - Catherine Cuthbertson St. Clair of the Isles - Elisabeth Helme The Subterraneous Passage - Sarah Wilkinson A Tale of Mystery, or Celina - Mary Meeke Thaddeus of Warsaw - Jane Porter The Three Monks - Elizabeth Guénard Walter de Monbray - Christiane Benedicte Eugenie Naubert The War-Office - Elizabeth Gunning Births January 3 - Douglas William Jerrold, British writer (+ 1857) May 25 - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, author (+ 1873) May 25 - Ralph Waldo Emerson, poet, essayist (+ 1882) November 14 - Jacob Abbott, writer (+ 1879) December 6 - Susanna Moodie , writer (+ 1885) Deaths September 5 - Choderlos de Laclos, author Awards