Events New Books Amazement - Mary Meeke The Eve of San-Pietro - Mary A. Neri The India Voyage - Elizabeth Lefanu Jerusalem (poetry) - William Blake The Knights of Calatrava - Sarah Wilkinson The Lake of Killarney - Anna Maria Porter Lussington Abbey - Henrietta Rouviere Mosse Malvina - Sophie Ristaud Cottin The Mother and Daughter - Mary Julia Young The Nine Days' Wonder - Mary Meeke Oberman - Etienne Senancour Popular Tales - Maria Edgeworth The Ruins of Tivoli - Francis Clifford The Sepulchral Summons - William Henry Ireland The Unexpected Legacy - Rachel Hunter Births July 1 - George Sand, writer (+ 1876) July 4 - Nathaniel Hawthorne, writer (+ 1864) December 10 - Eugène Sue, novelist (+ 1857) December 21 - Benjamin Disraeli, writer (+ 1881) Deaths January 4 - Charlotte Ramsay Lennox, English novelist & playwright February 12 - Immanuel Kant Awards