1823 in literature
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See also: 1822 in literature, other events of 1823, 1824 in literature, list of years in literature.
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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
New drama
- Eugène Scribe - Le Menteur Veridique
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