Events Julia Beckwith Hart becomes the first Canadian female writer to be published. New Books The Albigenses - Charles Robert Maturin Charlotte's Daughter - Haswell Rowson Hajji Baba of Ispahan - James Morier Hobomok - Lydia Maria Child The Homicide - Mary Charlton The Inheritance - Susan Ferrier Our Village - Mary Russell Mitford Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner - James Hogg Redwood - Catharine Maria Sedgwick St. Ronon's Well - Sir Walter Scott St. Ursula's Convent - Julia Beckwith Hart The Siege of Kenilworth - Louisa Stanhope The Tradition of the Castle - Regina Marie Roche Births January 8 - Wilkie Collins (+ 1889) May 19 - William Allingham (+ 1889) December 10 - George MacDonald (+ 1905) Deaths March 2 - Haswell Rowson, author April 19 - Lord Byron, poet Awards March - Samuel Taylor Coleridge elected FRSL