Events Alexis de Tocqueville publishes the first volume of Democracy in America. Memoir of James Jackson, written by Susan Paul, is the earliest-known published narrative by an African-American woman and the first account documenting the life of free black child in the United States. Hans Christian Andersen publishes the first of his 168 "Fairy Tales" for children. Bertelsmann founded as a religious printer and publisher New Books Belford Regis - Mary Russell Mitford The Devil in Manuscript - Nathaniel Hawthorne Heaven's My Destination - Thornton Wilder Horseshoe Robinson - John P.Kennedy The Improvisatore - Hans Christian Andersen The Linwoods - Catharine Maria Sedgwick Lodore - Mary Shelley Mademoiselle de Maupin - Theophile Gautier Memoir of James Jackson - Susan Paul The Pacha of Many Tales - Frederick Marryat Souvenirs (autobiography) - Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun The Student - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Taras Bulba - Nikolai Gogol A Tour on the Prairies - Washington Irving Births November 30 - Samuel Langhorne Clemens (+ 1910) December 4 - Samuel Butler, writer (+ 1902) Deaths January 14 - Henry Mackenzie, Scottish novelist Awards