1828 in literature

Events

• January – Thomas Dale becomes the first university professor of English language and literature, at the new London University.
• February 21 – The Cherokee Phœnix, the earliest newspaper published by Native Americans in the United States and in one of their indigenous languages,, is first issued in New Echota.
• April 1 – The Athenæum, "London Literary and Critical Journal", is launched by James Silk Buckingham.

• Sherman Converse publishes Noah Webster's 70,000 word American Dictionary of the English Language.
• Nikolai Gogol leaves school and goes to Saint Petersburg.
• 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 – :dk:Sildig Opvaagnen|Sildig Opvaagnen
• Anna Eliza Bray –
• John Benjamin Brookes – The Lustful Turk
• Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton – Pelham
• Lady Charlotte Bury – Flirtation
• 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
• Jane C. Loudon – The Mummy!
• John Neal – Rachel Dyer
• 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
• Rosalia St. Clair – Ulrica of Saxony

  Drama

• Alfred de Vigny – Roméo et Juliette and Shylock
• Franz Grillparzer – Ein Treuer Diener
• Johan Ludvig Heiberg – Elves' Hill
• Henrik Hertz – Flyttedagen
• Victor Hugo – Amy Robsart
• Mary Russell Mitford – Rienzi: a tragedy
• Jovan Sterija Popović – Miloš Obilić
• Émile Souvestre – Siege de Missolonghi
• Gotthilf August von Maltitz – Hans Kohlhaas

  Poetry

• Adam Mickiewicz – Konrad Wallenrod

  Non-fiction

• August Böckh – Corpus Inscriptionum Graecum
• 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

  Births

• January 2 – Frederic Charles Lascelles Wraxall, English writer
• January 15 – Mary Jane Katzmann, Canadian writer, editor, and historian
• January 22 – Dora d'Istria, Romanian-Albanian writer
• February 8 – Jules Verne, French novelist and science fiction writer
• February 12 – George Meredith, English novelist and poet
• February 14 – Edmond About, French novelist and journalist
• February 16 – Julia Colman, American writer, educator, activist, and editor
• March 20 – Henrik Johan Ibsen, Norwegian dramatist
• April 1 – Lucinda Banister Chandler, American author and reformer
• April 1 – George Barbu Știrbei, Romanian journalist, biographer and patron of the arts
• April 4 – Margaret Oliphant, Scottish novelist and historical writer
• May 12 – Dante Gabriel Rossetti, English poet and artist
• August 9 – Betty Bentley Beaumont, British author and businesswoman
• September 9 – Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist
• September 17 – Louise Flodin, Swedish journalist
• October 8 – Francisque Sarcey, French journalist and critic
• October 10 – Harriet Newell Kneeland Goff, American author and reformer
• November 14 – Susannah Valentine Aldrich, American author and hymnwriter

• Charlotte Chanter, English botanical writer and novelist

  Deaths

• January 5 – Kobayashi Issa, Japanese haiku poet
• January 16 – Johann Samuel Ersch, German bibliographer
• January 26 – Lady Caroline Lamb, English novelist
• February 7 – Henry Neele, English poet and scholar
• February 29 – Henry Beekman Livingston, American poet
• March 16 – Johann Georg August Galletti, German historian
• March 28 – Frances Burney, English dramatist
• April 7 – Helena Charlotta Åkerhielm, Swedish dramatist and translator
• April 25 – François-Benoît Hoffman, French dramatist and critic
• May 28 – Anne Seymour Damer, English sculptor and novelist
• June 8 – William Coxe, English historian and travel writer
• June 11 – Dugald Stewart, Scottish Enlightenment philosopher
• June 21 – Leandro Fernández de Moratín, Spanish dramatist and poet
• August 10 – William Cardell, American grammarian and story writer for boys
• October 13 – Vincenzo Monti, Italian poet and dramatist
• November 8 – Thomas Bewick, English writer and natural historian