Events John Wiley & Sons book publishing company founded. New Books The Benevolent Monk - Theodore Melville The Castle Spectre - Sarah Wilkinson The Catholic - William Henry Ireland Constance de Lindensdorf - Sophia Frances Corinne - Anne Louise Germaine de Stael Count Eugenio - Harriet Butler The Demon of Sicily - Edward Montague The Discarded Son - Regina Marie Roche Ellen: Heiress of the Castle - Mary Pilkington Family Annals - Rachel Hunter The Fatal Revenge - Charles Robert Maturin The Fugitive Countess - Sarah Wilkinson The Hungarian Brothers - Anna Maria Porter Julien - Mary Meeke Legends of a Nunnery - Edward Montague Léopold de Circé - Cathérine F. de St-Venant The Libertine - Charlotte Dacre The Orphans of Snowdon - Elizabeth Gunning A Peep at our Ancestors - Henrietta Rouviere Mosse A Summer at Brighton - Mary Julia Young Tales from Shakespeare - Charles Lamb & Mary Lamb The Wood Daemon - Matthew Gregory Lewis Births February 27 - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, poet (+ 1882) Deaths Awards