Events In the first known obscenity case in the United States, a Massachusetts court outlawed the John Cleland novel, Fanny Hill . The publisher, Peter Holmes, was convicted for printing a "lewd and obscene" novel. New Books Annals of the Parish - John Galt The Ayrshire Legatees - John Gait Confessions of an English Opium Eater - Thomas De Quincey The Irish Necromancer - Thomas H. Marshall Kenilworth - Sir Walter Scott Life in London - Pierce Egan Lovers and Friends - Anne Hatton Maid Marian - Thomas Love Peacock Smarra - Charles Nodier The Spectre of St. Michael's - C. D. Haynes The Spy - James Fenimore Cooper Talisman, a Tale of Mystery - I. M. H. Hales The Village of Mariendorpt - Anna Maria Porter Births March 19 - Richard Francis Burton (+ 1890) April 9 - Charles-Pierre Baudelaire (+ 1867) October 30 - Fyodor Dostoevsky (+ 1881) December 6 - Dora Greenwell (+ 1882) December 12 - Gustave Flaubert (+ 1880) Deaths February 23 - John Keats, poet August 1 - Elizabeth Inchbald, writer Awards
Deaths February 23 - John Keats, poet August 1 - Elizabeth Inchbald, writer Awards
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