Events New Books The Captives in India - Barbara Hofland Father Goriot - Honore de Balzac The Hamiltons - Catherine Gore Jacob Faithful - Frederick Marryat The Last Days of Pompeii - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Lucien Leuwen - Stendhal A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett - David Crockett The Pauper Boy - Rosalia St. Clair Personation - Selina Davenport Peter Simple - Frederick Marryat Poetical Works (last edition proofread by the author) - Samuel Taylor Coleridge Rookwood - William Harrison Ainsworth Sartor Resartus - Thomas Carlyle Births February 9 - Felix Dahn, author (+ 1912) William Morris, English poet (+ 1896) Deaths July 25 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English Romantic poet, writer December 27 - Charles Lamb, English essayist September 16 - William Blackwood, Scottish publisher December - Thomas Malthus Awards
