Events Friedrich Schiller introduces his new play, Wilhelm Tell Samuel Taylor Coleridge appointed Acting Public Secretary in Malta New Books The Bravo of Venice - Matthew Gregory Lewis The Child of the Abbey - Sophia Woodfall The Chronicles of Christabelle de Mowbray - Elizabeth Helme Confessions of the Nun of St. Omer - Charlotte Dacre Gondez the Monk - William Henry Ireland The Lay of the Last Minstrel (poetry) - Sir Walter Scott The Modern Griselda - Maria Edgeworth My Master's Secret - R. P. M. Yorke The Nuns of the Desert - Eugenia de Acton The Pilgrims of the Cross - Elisabeth Helme Rameau's Nephew - Denis Diderot A Sailor's Friendship, and A Soldier's Love - Anna Maria Porter The Saracen - Sophie Ristaud Cottin Villa Nova - Catherine Selden The Witcheries of Craig Isaf - William Frederick Williams The Witches of Glenshiel - Mary Julia Young The Wonder of the Village - Mary Meeke Births February 4 - William Harrison Ainsworth, novelist (+ 1882) April 2 - Hans Christian Andersen, writer (+ 1875) July 29 - Alexis de Tocqueville, writer (+ 1859) Deaths May 9 - Friedrich Schiller, German playwright Awards