1828 in literature
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