March – The Monthly Chronicle, "a national journal of politics, literature, science, and art", begins publication by Longman in London.
June 7 – English poet and novelist Letitia Elizabeth Landon marries George Maclean, travelling with him in early August to Cape Coast Castle, Gold Coast, where she dies on October 15 of a spasm arising from a heart defect.
Anna Maria Bunn's Gothic fictionThe Guardian: a tale ("by an Australian") is published in Sydney. It is the first Australian novel printed and published in mainland Australia (although set in the author's native Ireland) and the first by a woman.[4]
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^Described by her in Un hiver à Majorque [fr] ("A Winter in Majorca", 1842).
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^"The Lamplighter – by Charles Dickens (1838)". Archived from the original on 2014-11-07. Retrieved 2014-12-17.
^Thomas William Herringshaw (1909). Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States... American Publishers' Association. p. 408.
^"Biography of John Jamieson". www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk. Retrieved 20 March 2018.
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^Georges Denis Zimmermann (2001). The Irish Storyteller. Four Courts Press. p. 205. ISBN 978-1-85182-622-3.