1822 in literature

See also: 1821 in literature, other events of 1822, 1823 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

• Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Thursday-evening class" begins

New books

• Clavering Tower – Rosalia St. Clair
• The Fortunes of Nigel – Sir Walter Scott
• Ghost at Palnatoke's Grave – Hans Christian Andersen
• Guilty or Not Guilty – Anne Hatton
• Hellas – Percy Bysshe Shelley
• The Hunters of the Pyrenees – Anna Maria Porter
• Logan, A Family History – John Neal
• A New England Tale – Catharine Maria Sedgwick
• Nuptial Discoveries – Sarah Green
• The Pirate -Sir Walter Scott
• The Royal Exile – Mary Roberts
• Singularity – Jane Harvey
• The Sketch Book, Bracebridge Hall – Washington Irving
• Tales of the Manor – Barbara Hofland
• Trilby – Charles Nodier

Births

• May 22 – Edmond de Goncourt (+ 1896)
• December 24 – Matthew Arnold (+ 1888)
• December 26 – Dion Boucicault (+ 1890)

Deaths

• July 7 – Percy Bysshe Shelley, poet

Awards