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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]
• April 1 – The Athenæum, "London Literary and Critical Journal", is launched by James Silk Buckingham.
• 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.
• 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.

New books

Fiction

• Steen Steensen Blicher – Sildig Opvaagnen
• Anna Eliza Bray – The White Hoods: an Historical Romance
• John Benjamin Brookes (published anonymously) – The Lustful Turk
• Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton – Pelham
• George Croly – Salathiel
• Selina Davenport – Italian Vengeance and English Forbearance
• Thomas Gaspey – The History of George Godfrey
• Léon Gozlan – Les Mémoires d'un apothécaire
• Elizabeth Caroline Grey – De Lisle
• Gerald Griffin – The Collegians
• Jane Harvey – The Ambassador's Secretary
• Ann Hatton – Uncle Peregrine's Heiress
• Nathaniel Hawthorne – Fanshawe
• Robert Huish – The Red Barn
• Bernhard Severin Ingemann – Erik Menveds Barndom (Erik Menved's Childhood)
• Jane C. Loudon – The Mummy!
• John Neal – Rachel Dyer
• Susanna Rowson – Lucy Temple
• Sir Walter Scott – The Fair Maid of Perth (or St. Valentine's Day; Chronicles of the Canongate, 2nd series)
• Rosalia St. Clair – Ulrica of Saxony

Drama

• Alfred de Vigny – Roméo et Juliette and Shylock (adaptations from Shakespeare, published)
• Franz Grillparzer – Ein Treuer Diener
• Johan Ludvig Heiberg – Elves' Hill (Elverhøi)
• Henrik Hertz – Flyttedagen
• Victor Hugo – Amy Robsart
• Mary Russell Mitford – Rienzi: a tragedy
• Jovan Sterija Popović – Miloš Obilić
• Émile Souvestre – Siege de Missolonghi
• Gotthilf August von Maltitz – Hans Kohlhaas

Poetry

• Adam Mickiewicz – Konrad Wallenrod

Non-fiction

• August Böckh (editor) – Corpus Inscriptionum Graecum (begins publication)
• George Combe – The Constitution of Man
• Barbara Hofland – Africa Described, in Its Ancient and Present State
• Washington Irving – A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus

Births

• 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)
• March 20 – Henrik Johan Ibsen, Norwegian dramatist (died 1906)
• April 4 – Margaret Oliphant, Scottish novelist and historical writer (died 1897)
• May 12 – Dante Gabriel Rossetti, English poet and artist (died 1882)
• September 9 – Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist (died 1910)
• September 17 – Louise Flodin, Swedish journalist (died 1923)
• October 8 – Francisque Sarcey, French journalist and critic (died 1899)

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 25 – François-Benoît Hoffman, French dramatist and critic (born 1760)
• May 28 – Anne Seymour Damer, English sculptor and novelist (born 1749)
• 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 dates – William Cardell, American grammarian and story writer for boys (born 1780)

References

1. "Thomas Dale (1797–1870)". UCL Bloomsbury Project. UCL. 2011-04-07. Retrieved 2015-02-14.
2. "Icons, a portrait of England 1820-1840". Archived from the original on 22 September 2007. Retrieved 2007-09-12.