1828 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1828.

Events

January – Thomas Dale becomes the first university professor of English language and literature, at the new London University.
January 1 – John Neal launches The Yankee literary journal.
January 6 – William Lamb, the future Lord Melbourne, writes to his estranged wife, Lady Caroline Lamb, from Ireland, regretting that official duties make it impossible to visit her immediately. Later in the month, he makes the sea crossing arriving at her bedside shortly before her death.
February 21 – The Cherokee Phœnix, the earliest newspaper published by Native Americans in the United States and in one of their indigenous languages,, is first issued in New Echota.
April 1 – The Athenæum, "London Literary and Critical Journal", is launched by James Silk Buckingham.
December – Nikolai Gogol leaves school and goes to Saint Petersburg.
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*Sherman Converse publishes Noah Webster's 70,000 word American Dictionary of the English Language.
*Elizabeth Caroline Grey's The Skeleton Count, or The Vampire Mistress is published; it is considered by some to be the first vampire story by a woman author.
*John Payne Collier produces a script of Punch and Judy.
*The Reclam publishing company is established in Leipzig by Anton Philipp Reclam.
*Færøernes Amts Bibliotek, the National Library of the Faroe Islands, is established.

January 2 – Frederic Charles Lascelles Wraxall, English writer
January 15 – Mary Jane Katzmann, Canadian writer, editor, and historian
January 22 – Dora d'Istria, Romanian-Albanian writer
February 8 – Jules Verne, French novelist and science fiction writer
February 12 – George Meredith, English novelist and poet
February 14 – Edmond About, French novelist and journalist
February 16 – Julia Colman, American writer, educator, activist, and editor
March 20 – Henrik Johan Ibsen, Norwegian dramatist
April 1 – Lucinda Banister Chandler, American author and reformer
April 1 – George Barbu Știrbei, Romanian journalist, biographer and patron of the arts
April 4 – Margaret Oliphant, Scottish novelist and historical writer
May 12 – Dante Gabriel Rossetti, English poet and artist
August 9 – B. Beaumont, British author and businesswoman
August 24 – Gheorghe Chițu, Romanian classical scholar, publisher and journalist
September 9 – Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist
September 17 – Louise Flodin, Swedish journalist
October 8 – Francisque Sarcey, French journalist and critic
October 10 – Harriet Newell Kneeland Goff, American author and reformer
November 14 – Susannah V. Aldrich, American author and hymnwriter
unknown date – Charlotte Chanter, English botanical writer and novelist