1823 in literature

See also: 1822 in literature, other events of 1823, 1824 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

• Clement Clarke Moore's poem, A Visit from St. Nicholas introduces the character named "Santa Claus".

New Books

• Ada Reis - Caroline Lamb
• The Entail - John Galt
• Liber Amoris - William Hazlitt
• Monks of Leadenhead - Thomas Gaspey
• Mountalyth - Jane Harvey
• Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea - John Franklin
• The Nieces - Sarah Green
• The Pilot - James Fenimore Cooper
• The Pioneers - James Fenimore Cooper
• Posthumous Poems - Percy Bysshe Shelley
• Quentin Durward - Sir Walter Scott
• The Trials of Margaret Lyndsay - John Wilson
• Valperga - Mary Shelley
• What Shall Be, Shall Be - Mary Meeke
• The Wizard Priest and the Witch - Quintin Poyney

Births

• March 20 - Ned Buntline, publisher, writer, (+ 1886)
• August 13 - Goldwin Smith, historian and journalist
• December 24 - Matthew Arnold (+ 1888)

Deaths

• February 7 - Ann Radcliffe, novelist

Awards