Events The first volume of John James Audubon's 10-volume The Birds of America is published. Noah Webster publishes his 70,000 word American Dictionary of the English Language. New Books Africa Described, in Its Ancient and Present State - Barbara Hofland The Ambassador's Secretary - Jane Harvey The Collegians - Gerald Griffin The Fair Maid of Perth - Sir Walter Scott Italian Vengeance and English Forbearance - Selina Davenport De Lisle - Elizabeth Caroline Grey The Mummy - Jane C. Loudon Rachel Dyer - John Neal The Red Barn - Robert Huish Ulrica of Saxony - Rosalia St. Clair Uncle Peregrine's Heiress - Anne Hatton Births February 8 - Jules Verne (+ 1905) February 12 - George Meredith (+ 1909) April 4 - Margaret Oliphant (+ 1897) September 9 - Leo Tolstoy (+ 1910) May 12 - Dante Gabriel Rossetti (+ 1882) Deaths Awards
New Books Africa Described, in Its Ancient and Present State - Barbara Hofland The Ambassador's Secretary - Jane Harvey The Collegians - Gerald Griffin The Fair Maid of Perth - Sir Walter Scott Italian Vengeance and English Forbearance - Selina Davenport De Lisle - Elizabeth Caroline Grey The Mummy - Jane C. Loudon Rachel Dyer - John Neal The Red Barn - Robert Huish Ulrica of Saxony - Rosalia St. Clair Uncle Peregrine's Heiress - Anne Hatton Births February 8 - Jules Verne (+ 1905) February 12 - George Meredith (+ 1909) April 4 - Margaret Oliphant (+ 1897) September 9 - Leo Tolstoy (+ 1910) May 12 - Dante Gabriel Rossetti (+ 1882) Deaths Awards
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