Events Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Thursday-evening class" begins New Books Clavering Tower - Rosalia St. Clair The Fortunes of Nigel - Sir Walter Scott Ghost at Palnatoke's Grave - Hans Christian Andersen Guilty or Not Guilty - Anne Hatton Hellas - Percy Bysshe Shelley The Hunters of the Pyrenees - Anna Maria Porter Logan, A Family History - John Neal A New England Tale - Catharine Maria Sedgwick Nuptial Discoveries - Sarah Green The Pirate -Sir Walter Scott The Royal Exile - Mary Roberts Singularity - Jane Harvey The Sketch Book, Bracebridge Hall - Washington Irving Tales of the Manor - Barbara Hofland Trilby - Charles Nodier Births May 22 - Edmond de Goncourt (+ 1896) December 24 - Matthew Arnold (+ 1888) Deaths July 7 - Percy Bysshe Shelley, poet Awards