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]
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]