Table of contents

1 Events 2 New Books 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Awards

Events

• The Backwoods of Canada - Catharine Parr Traill
• The Captain's Daughter - Alexander Pushkin
• The Little Mermaid - Hans Christian Andersen
• Mr. Midshipman Easy - Frederick Marryat
• Nature - Ralph Waldo Emerson
• The Pickwick Papers - Charles Dickens
• The Pirate - Frederick Marryat
• Poems - Oliver Wendell Holmes
• The Three Cutters - Frederick Marryat

• January 27 - Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, writer (+ 1895)
• August 25 - Bret Harte American author (+ 1902)
• Annie Louisa Walker, British writer (+ 1907)

• November 5 - Karel Hynek Macha, poet