1828 in literature

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The year 1828 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

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.
• Nikolai Gogol leaves school and goes to Saint Petersburg.
• Elizabeth Caroline Grey publishes The Skeleton Count, or The Vampire Mistress in the penny dreadful The Casket, the first vampire story published by a woman author.

New books

• Anna Eliza Bray - The White Hoods: an Historical Romance
• Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton - Pelham
• George Croly - Salathiel
• Selina Davenport - Italian Vengeance and English Forbearance
• Elizabeth Caroline Grey - De Lisle
• Gerald Griffin - The Collegians
• Jane Harvey - The Ambassador's Secretary
• Ann Hatton - Uncle Peregrine's Heiress
• Nathaniel Hawthorne - Fanshawe
• Robert Huish - The Red Barn
• Washington Irving - The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus
• Jane C. Loudon - The Mummy!
• The Lustful Turk (anonymous)
• John Neal - Rachel Dyer
• Susanna Rowson - Lucy Temple
• Sir Walter Scott - The Fair Maid of Perth
• Rosalia St. Clair - Ulrica of Saxony

New drama

• Franz Grillparzer - Ein Treuer Diener
• Johan Ludvig Heiberg - Elverhøi

Poetry

• Adam Mickiewicz - Konrad Wallenrod

Non-fiction

• August Böckh (ed.) - Corpus Inscriptionum Graecum (begins publication)
• George Combe - The Constitution of Man
• Barbara Hofland - Africa Described, in Its Ancient and Present State
• Washington Irving - The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus

Births

• February 8 - Jules Verne, novelist and science fiction pioneer (died 1905)
• February 12 - George Meredith, novelist and poet (died 1909)
• February 14 - Edmond About, novelist and journalist (died 1885)
• March 20 - Henrik Johan Ibsen, dramatist (died 1906)
• April 4 - Margaret Oliphant (died 1897)
• May 12 - Dante Gabriel Rossetti (died 1882)
• September 9 - Leo Tolstoy, novelist (died 1910)
• September 17 - Louise Flodin, journalist (died 1923)
• October 8 - Francisque Sarcey, journalist and critic (died 1899)

Deaths

• January 16 - Johann Samuel Ersch, bibliographer
• January 26 - Lady Caroline Lamb, novelist and lover of Lord Byron
• March 16 - Johann Georg August Galletti, historian
• April 25 - François Benoît Hoffmann, dramatist and critic
• June 8 - William Coxe, historian
• June 11 - Dugald Stewart, philosopher
• June 21 - Leandro Fernández de Moratín, Spanish dramatist & poet
• October 13 - Vincenzo Monti, poet
• date unknown - Henry Beekman Livingston, poet

Awards