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, (Cherokee), 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. unknown dates 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.
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
The Disowned
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
Ann Hatton – Uncle Peregrine's Heiress
Nathaniel Hawthorne – Fanshawe
Robert Huish – The Red Barn
Bernhard Severin Ingemann – Erik Menveds Barndom (Erik Menved's Childhood) Thomas Henry Lister – Herbert Lacy Jane C. Loudon – The Mummy! John Neal – Rachel Dyer: a North American Story Lord Normanby – Yes and No T. J. Llewelyn Prichard – The Adventures and Vagaries of Twm Shon Catti, descriptive of life in Wales; interspersed with poems 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 James Sheridan Knowles – The Beggar's Daughter of Bethnal Green Mary Russell Mitford – Rienzi Richard Brinsley Peake – The Haunted Inn Jovan Sterija Popović – Miloš Obilić Lord Porchester – Don Pedro, King of Castile 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