This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1822.
June 16 – Mary Shelley suffers a miscarriage.
July 8 – English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, returning from Livorno (where he set up The Liberal magazine with Leigh Hunt) to Lerici where he has been living with his wife Mary, is drowned when his boat sinks in a storm in the Ligurian Sea. His body, washed up ten days later on the beach near Viareggio, is cremated there in the presence of Lord Byron and Edward John Trelawny who claims to have seized Shelley's heart from the flames.
The Noctes Ambrosianae, imaginary colloquies, begin to appear in Blackwood's Magazine (Edinburgh).
Richard Henry Dana, Sr. – Paul Felton
Kenelm Henry Digby – The Broad-Stone of Honour
Sarah Green – Nuptial Discoveries
Jane Harvey – Singularity
Ann Hatton – Guilty or Not Guilty
Washington Irving – Bracebridge Hall
Lady Caroline Lamb – Graham Hamilton
John Claudius Loudon – An Encyclopaedia of Gardening
John Neal – Logan, A Family History
Charles Nodier – Trilby
Anna Maria Porter – The Hunters of the Pyrenees
Thomas de Quincey – Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
Rosalia St. Clair – Clavering Tower
Sir Walter Scott (as "The author of Waverley")
The Fortunes of Nigel
The Pirate
Catharine Maria Sedgwick – A New England Tale
Children and young people
Hans Christian Andersen – Ghost at Palnatoke's Grave
Charlotte Anley – Influence. A Moral Tale for Young People
Agnes Strickland – The Moss-House: In Which Many of the Works of Nature Are Rendered a Source of Amusement to Children
Franz Grillparzer – The Golden Fleece
Alessandro Manzoni – Adelchi
Lord Byron – The Vision of Judgment
António Feliciano de Castilho – Primavera
Eleanor Anne Porden – Coeur de Lion
Mary Roberts – The Royal Exile
Percy Bysshe Shelley – Hellas
May 22 – Edmond de Goncourt, French literary critic and publisher (died 1896)
December 24 – Matthew Arnold, English poet (died 1888)
December 26 – Dion Boucicault, Irish-born dramatist (died 1890)
Unknown date – Boleslav Markevich, Russian writer (died 1884)
June 25 – E. T. A. Hoffmann, German Romantic writer (born 1776)
July 8 – Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet and radical (born 1792)
December 7 – John Aikin, English physician and miscellanist (born 1747)
December 8 – Saul Ascher, German political writer and translator (born 1767)
March 19 – Józef Wybicki, Polish poet (born 1747)
Chancellor's Gold Medal – John Henry Bright
Newdigate Prize – A. Barber
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