Events The Grimm brothers complete the writing of Grimm's Fairy Tales New Books Adolphe - Benjamin Constant The Baron of Falconberg - Elizabeth Thomas Barozzi or the Venetian Sorceress: A Romance of the Sixteenth Century - Catherine Smith The Brothers, or Consequences - Mary Hays The Devil's Elixir - Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann Edinburg; a Novel - Regina Marie Roche A Father as He Should Be - Barbara Hofland The Fugitive - Sarah Green Guy Mannering - Sir Walter Scott The Life and Death of Cardinal Wolsey - George Cavendish The Pastor's Fireside - Jane Porter The Rock of Glotzden - Anne Hatton Secret Avengers - Ann Hatton The Spanish Campaign - Mary Meeke The Unfortunate Choice - Mary Pilkington The Victims of Seduction - Elizabeth Gunning Births April 24 - Anthony Trollope (+ 1882) Deaths Awards