1828 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1828.

Events

• January – Thomas Dale becomes the first university professor of English language and literature, at the new London University.^[1]
• February 21 – The Cherokee Phœnix, the first newspaper published by Native Americans in the United States and in one of their indigenous languages (Cherokee), is first issued in New Echota.
• April 1 – The Athenæum, "London Literary and Critical Journal", is launched by James Silk Buckingham.
• 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's The Skeleton Count, or The Vampire Mistress is published in the penny dreadful The Casket; it is the first vampire story published by a woman author.
• John Payne Collier produces a script of Punch and Judy.^[2]
• The Reclam publishing company is established in Leipzig by Anton Philipp Reclam.
• The Raczyński Library in Poznań is completed.
• Færøernes Amts Bibliotek, the National Library of the Faroe Islands, is established.

New books

Births

• January 15 – Mary Jane Katzmann, Canadian writer, editor, and historian (died 1890)
• January 22 – Dora d'Istria, Romanian-Albanian writer (died 1888)
• February 8 – Jules Verne, French novelist and science fiction writer (died 1905)
• February 12 – George Meredith, English novelist and poet (died 1909)
• February 14 – Edmond About, French novelist and journalist (died 1885)
• February 16 – Julia Colman, American writer, educator, activist, and editor (died 1909)
• March 20 – Henrik Johan Ibsen, Norwegian dramatist (died 1906)
• April 1 – Lucinda Banister Chandler, American author and reformer (died 1911)
• April 1 – George Barbu Știrbei, Romanian journalist, biographer and patron of the arts (died 1925)
• April 4 – Margaret Oliphant, Scottish novelist and historical writer (died 1897)^[3]
• May 12 – Dante Gabriel Rossetti, English poet and artist (died 1882)^[4]
• August 9 – Betty Bentley Beaumont, British author and businesswoman (died 1892)
• September 9 – Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist (died 1910)^[5]
• September 17 – Louise Flodin, Swedish journalist (died 1923)
• October 8 – Francisque Sarcey, French journalist and critic (died 1899)
• October 10 – Harriet Newell Kneeland Goff, American author and reformer (died 1901)
• November 14 – Susannah Valentine Aldrich, American author and hymnwriter (died 1905)
• Unknown date – Frederic Charles Lascelles Wraxall, English writer (died 1865)

Deaths

• January 5 – Kobayashi Issa (小林 一茶), Japanese haiku poet (born 1763)
• January 16 – Johann Samuel Ersch, German bibliographer (born 1766)
• January 26 – Lady Caroline Lamb, English novelist (born 1785)
• February 7 – Henry Neele, English poet and scholar (born 1798)
• February 29 – Henry Beekman Livingston, American poet (born 1748)
• March 16 – Johann Georg August Galletti, German historian (born 1750)
• March 28 – Frances Burney, English dramatist (born 1776)
• April 7 – Helena Charlotta Åkerhielm, Swedish dramatist and translator (born 1786)
• April 25 – François-Benoît Hoffman, French dramatist and critic (born 1760)
• May 28 – Anne Seymour Damer, English sculptor and novelist (born 1748)^[6]
• June 8 – William Coxe, English historian and travel writer (born 1747)
• June 11 – Dugald Stewart, Scottish Enlightenment philosopher (born 1753)
• June 21 – Leandro Fernández de Moratín, Spanish dramatist and poet (born 1760)
• October 13 – Vincenzo Monti, Italian poet and dramatist (born 1754)
• November 8 – Thomas Bewick, English writer and natural historian (born 1753)
• Unknown date – William Cardell, American grammarian and story writer for boys (born 1780)

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