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1811
 
    
English author Jane Austen publishes her first work in print, Sense and Sensibility, at her own expense       
1813
 
     
Pride and Prejudice, based on a youthful work of 1797 called First Impressions, is the second of Jane Austen's novels to be published        
1818
 
     
Two of Jane Austen's novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, are published in the year after her death        
1818
 
    
Mary Shelley publishes Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus, a Gothic tale about giving life to an artificial man       
Mary Shelley, by Rothwell, c.1840
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1819
 
    
Walter Scott publishes Ivanhoe, a tale of love, tournaments and sieges at the time of the crusades       
1820
 
    
Washington Irving tells the story of the long sleep of Rip Van Winkle in his Sketch Book       
1821
 
   
The Spy, a romance set in the American Revolution, establishes the reputation of US author James Fenimore Cooper      
1823
 
    
James Fenimore Cooper's The Pioneers introduces Natty Bumppo, frontiersman known for his 'leather stockings'       
1825
 
    
Italian author Alessandro Manzoni begins publication (completed 1827) of his novel I Promessi Sposi ('The Betrothed')       
1826
 
    
In James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans, Natty Bumppo sides with a Mohican chief