Books - 1828 in literature

Events

• The first volume of John James Audubon's 10-volume The Birds of America is published.
• Noah Webster publishes his 70,000 word American Dictionary of the English Language.

New books

• Africa Described, in Its Ancient and Present State - Barbara Hofland
• The Ambassador's Secretary - Jane Harvey
• The Collegians - Gerald Griffin
• The Fair Maid of Perth - Sir Walter Scott
• Italian Vengeance and English Forbearance - Selina Davenport
• De Lisle - Elizabeth Caroline Grey
• The Mummy! - Jane C. Loudon
• Pelham - Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
• Rachel Dyer - John Neal
• The Red Barn - Robert Huish
• The Three Musketeers
  - Alexandre Dumas père
• Ulrica of Saxony - Rosalia St. Clair
• Uncle Peregrine's Heiress - Anne Hatton

New drama

• Franz Grillparzer - Ein Treuer Diener
• Johan Ludvig Heiberg - Elverhøi

Non-fiction

• Washington Irving - The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus

Births

• February 8 - Jules Verne, novelist and science fiction pioneer (d. 1905)
• February 12 - George Meredith, novelist and poet (d. 1909)
• February 14 - Edmond About, novelist and journalist (d. 1885)
• March 20 - Henrik Johan Ibsen, dramatist (d. 1906)
• April 4 - Margaret Oliphant (d. 1897)
• May 12 - Dante Gabriel Rossetti (d. 1882)
• September 9 - Leo Tolstoy, novelist (d. 1910)
• October 8 - Francisque Sarcey, journalist and critic (d. 1899)

Deaths

• January 16 - Johann Samuel Ersch, bibliographer
• January 26 - Lady Caroline Lamb, novelist and lover of Lord Byron
• March 16 - Johann Georg August Galletti, historian
• April 25 - François Benoît Hoffmann, dramatist and critic
• June 8 - William Coxe, historian
• June 11 - Dugald Stewart, philosopher
• June 21 - Leandro Fernández de Moratín, Spanish dramatist & poet
• October 13 - Vincenzo Monti, poet
• date unknown - Henry Livingston Jr., poet

Awards

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