Events New Books The Anglo-Saxons - Leslie Armstrong The Castle of Tynemouth - Jane Harvey Feudal Tyrants - Matthew Gregory Lewis The Heirs of Villeroy - Henrietta Rouviere Mosse Lady Maclairn, The Victim of Villany - Rachel Hunter Leonora - Maria Edgeworth Montbrasil Abbey - Louisa Stanhope The Mysterious Freebooter - Francis Lathom Santo Sebastiano - Catherine Cuthbertson The Spanish Outlaw - William Herbert Vensenshon - Harriet Butler Vivonio - Sophia Frances Zofloya - Charlotte Dacre Births March 6 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, poet (+ 1861) April 17 - William Gilmore Simms, author (+ 1870) August 31 - Charles Lever, Anglo-Irish novelist (+ 1872) Deaths Awards