1822 in literature - Definition and Overview

See also: 1821 in literature, other events of 1822, 1823 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

• Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Thursday-evening class" begins

New Books

• Clavering Tower - Rosalia St. Clair
• The Fortunes of Nigel - Sir Walter Scott
• Ghost at Palnatoke's Grave - Hans Christian Andersen
• Guilty or Not Guilty - Anne Hatton
• Hellas - Percy Bysshe Shelley
• The Hunters of the Pyrenees - Anna Maria Porter
• Logan, A Family History - John Neal
• A New England Tale - Catharine Maria Sedgwick
• Nuptial Discoveries - Sarah Green
• The Pirate -Sir Walter Scott
• The Royal Exile - Mary Roberts
• Singularity - Jane Harvey
• The Sketch Book, Bracebridge Hall - Washington Irving
• Tales of the Manor - Barbara Hofland
• Trilby - Charles Nodier

Births

• May 22 - Edmond de Goncourt (+ 1896)
• December 24 - Matthew Arnold (+ 1888)

Deaths

• July 7 - Percy Bysshe Shelley, poet

Awards