Events Robert Chambers's publishing company publishes The Songs of Robert Burns. November 20 - An 80-ton sperm whale attacks the Essex (a whaling ship from Nantucket, Massachusetts) 2,000 miles from the western coast of South America (Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick was in part inspired by this story). New Books The Abbot - Sir Walter Scott Castle of Nielo - Robert Huish The Crusaders - Louisa Stanhope Essays of Elia - Charles Lamb The Eve of St. Agnes - John Keats Forty Years ago - Thomas Gaspey The Highland Castle, and the Lowland Cottage - Rosalia St. Clair Italian Mysteries - Francis Lathom Ivanhoe - Sir Walter Scott Lamia and Other Poems - John Keats Life of Wesley - Robert Southey Melmoth the Wanderer - Charles Robert Maturin The Munster Cottage Boy - Regina Marie Roche Prometheus Unbound (poetry) - Percy Bysshe Shelley Ruslan and Ludmila - Alexander Pushkin The Songs of Robert Burns - Robert Burns The Spectre of Lanmere Abbey - Sarah Wilkinson Births January 17 - Anne Bronte, author (+ 1849) March 30 - Anna Sewell, author (+ 1878) November 28 - Friedrich Engels, socialist writer (+ 1895) Deaths Awards