July 20 – The English "peasant poet"
John Clare absconds from an asylum for the insane at
High Beach in Essex and walks 90 miles (140 km) to his home at
Northborough in the East Midlands. In late December he is admitted to
Northampton General Lunatic Asylum where he will spend the remaining 23 years of his life.
July 28 –
Mary Rogers, the "Beautiful Cigar Girl", is found murdered in New York City. This will inspire Edgar Allan Poe's story "
The Mystery of Marie Rogêt" of the following year, as a sequel to "The Murders in the Rue Morgue".
Tauchnitz publishers of Leipzig begin their Collection of British and American Authors with
Dickens' The Pickwick Papers and
Bulwer-Lytton's Pelham. This authorized series of cheap reprints will become popular with Anglophone travelers in continental Europe.
^Hacikyan, Agop Jack; Basmajian, Gabriel; Franchuk, Edward S. (2005). The Heritage of Armenian Literature: From The Eighteenth Century To Modern Times. Detroit: Wayne State University Press. p. 213.
ISBN9780814332214.
^Hahn, Daniel (2015). The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (2nd ed.). Oxford. University Press. p. 11.
ISBN9780198715542.
^Leavis, Q. D. (1965). Fiction and the Reading Public (2nd ed.). London: Chatto & Windus.
July 20 – The English "peasant poet"
John Clare absconds from an asylum for the insane at
High Beach in Essex and walks 90 miles (140 km) to his home at
Northborough in the East Midlands. In late December he is admitted to
Northampton General Lunatic Asylum where he will spend the remaining 23 years of his life.
July 28 –
Mary Rogers, the "Beautiful Cigar Girl", is found murdered in New York City. This will inspire Edgar Allan Poe's story "
The Mystery of Marie Rogêt" of the following year, as a sequel to "The Murders in the Rue Morgue".
Tauchnitz publishers of Leipzig begin their Collection of British and American Authors with
Dickens' The Pickwick Papers and
Bulwer-Lytton's Pelham. This authorized series of cheap reprints will become popular with Anglophone travelers in continental Europe.
^Hacikyan, Agop Jack; Basmajian, Gabriel; Franchuk, Edward S. (2005). The Heritage of Armenian Literature: From The Eighteenth Century To Modern Times. Detroit: Wayne State University Press. p. 213.
ISBN9780814332214.
^Hahn, Daniel (2015). The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (2nd ed.). Oxford. University Press. p. 11.
ISBN9780198715542.
^Leavis, Q. D. (1965). Fiction and the Reading Public (2nd ed.). London: Chatto & Windus.