Events Series of lectures on drama and Shakespeare - Samuel Taylor Coleridge New Books The Absentee - Maria Edgeworth Arrivals from India - Henrietta Rouviere Mosse Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (poetry) - Lord Byron The Confessional of Valombre - Louisa Stanhope Declaration of Rights - Percy Shelley Emilie de Coulanges - Maria Edgeworth The Fortress del Vechii - Ann Hatton The Loyalists: An Historical Novel - Jane West The Milesian Chief - Charles Robert Maturin The Swiss Family Robinson - Johann David Wyss The Vindictive Spirit - Bridget Bluemantle Vivian - Maria Edgeworth Births February 7 - Charles Dickens, English writer (+ 1870) May 7 - Robert Browning, English poet (+ 1889) May 12 - Edward Lear English writer (+ 1888) June 18 - Ivan Goncharov Russian writer (+ 1891) Deaths Awards