Events New Books The Age We Live In - Louisa Stanhope Angelo Guicciardini - Sophia Frances Diedrich Knickerbocker's History of New York - Washington Irving Don Sebastian - Anna Maria Porter English Bards and Scotch Reviewers - Lord Byron Ennui and Manoeuvering - Maria Edgeworth The Friend (periodical, through 1810) - Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Iron Mask - J. P. Hunt Laughton Priory - Mary Meeke The Lords of Erith - Catherine Manners The Martyrs - François-René de Chateaubriand Memoirs of an American Lady - Anne Grant Monte Video - Elizabeth Thomas The Mysterious Novice - Sarah Wilkinson The Mysterious Orphan - Mary Pilkington The Novitiate de Rousillon - Henrietta Maria Young Osrick - Richard Sicklemore Romance of the Pyrenees - Catherine Cuthbertson Tales of the Manor - Sarah Green Births January 19 - Edgar Allen Poe, writer (+ 1849) March 31 - Nikolai Gogol, writer (+ 1852) August 6 - Alfred Tennyson, poet (+ 1892) August 29 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, poet (+ 1894) Deaths June 8 - Thomas Paine, writer Awards