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See also: 1818 in literature, other events of 1819, 1820 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

In England, Richard Carlile (1790-1843) is convicted of blasphemy and sent to prison for publishing The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine (1737-1809).
In the United States, between 1819 and 1820, Washington Irving publishes his novel The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon
that includes the stories The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
and Rip van Winkle
.

New books

Any Thing But What You Expect - Jane Harvey
The Black Robber - Edward Ball
The Bride of Lammermoor - Sir Walter Scott
A Classical Tour through Italy and Sicily - Richard Colt Hoare
The Oath of Vengeance - Ann Hatton
The Recluse of Albyn Hall - Zara Wentworth
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon
- Washington Irving
The Son of O'Donnel - Rosalia St. Clair
Specimens of the British Poets - Thomas Campbell
The Vampyre
- John William Polidori
The Veiled Protectress - Mary Meeke

New drama

Alessandro Manzoni - Il Conte di Carmagnola

Poetry

Lord Byron - Mazeppa
John Keats - Odes
Percy Bysshe Shelley - The Cenci

Non-fiction

Jakob Grimm - German Grammar
Georg Hermes - Philosophical Introduction to Christian Theology

Births

January 1 - Arthur Hugh Clough, poet (+ 1861)
February 22 - James Russell Lowell, poet (+ 1891)
May 31 - Walt Whitman, poet (+ 1892)
August 1 - Herman Melville (+ 1891)
November 22 - George Eliot (+ 1880)
December 30 - Theodor Fontane

Deaths

January 12 - André Morellet, philosophe
March 23 - August von Kotzebue, dramatist

Awards

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