Events In England, Richard Carlile (1790-1843) is convicted of blasphemy and sent to prison for publishing Age of Reason by Thomas Paine (1737-1809). In the United States, between 1819 and 1820, Washington Irving publishes his novel The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon that includes the stories The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip van Winkle. New Books Any Thing But What You Expect - Jane Harvey The Black Robber - Edward Ball The Bride of Lammermoor - Sir Walter Scott The Oath of Vengeance - Anne Hatton Odes (poetry) - John Keats The Recluse of Albyn Hall - Zara Wentworth The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon - Washington Irving The Son of O'Donnel - Rosalia St. Clair The Vampyre - John William Polidori The Veiled Protectress - Mary Meeke Births January 1 - Arthur Hugh Clough, poet (+ 1861) February 22 - James Russell Lowell, poet (+ 1891) May 31 - Walt Whitman, poet (+ 1892) August 1 - Herman Melville (+ 1891) November 22 - George Eliot (+ 1880) Deaths Awards