Events Harper & Row publishing house is founded. New Books Biographia Literaria - Samuel Taylor Coleridge A Bride and No Wife - Henrietta Rouviere Mosse Claudine - Elizabeth Thomas Gonzalo de Balvidio - Ann Hatton The Knight of St. John - Anna Maria Porter Lalla Rookh (poem) - Thomas Moore The Mysteries of Hungary - Edward Moore Ormond and Harrington - Maria Edgeworth Villa Santelle - Catherine Selden Woman's Privilege - Selina Davenport Births July 12 - Henry David Thoreau (+ 1862) Deaths July 14 - Anne Louise Germaine de Stael, author July 18 - Jane Austen, author Awards