Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events January - Lord Byron writes his semi-autobiographical tale in verse The Corsair while snowed up at Newstead Abbey in England with his half-sister, Augusta Leigh. It is published on February 1 by John Murray April 15 - Augusta Leigh bears a daughter, Elizabeth Medora Leigh, perhaps by Byron. July 28–September 13 - English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley abandons his pregnant wife and runs away with the 16-year-old Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, accompanied by her stepsister Jane Clairmont (also 16), to war-ravaged France, quickly moving on to Switzerland. September 12–15 - Battle of Baltimore (War of 1812): American lawyer Francis Scott Key, witnessing the bombardment of Baltimore, Maryland, from a British ship, writes "Defence of Fort McHenry". His brother-in-law arranges to have the poem published in a broadside with a recommended tune on September 17 and on September 20, both the Baltimore Patriot and The American print it; the song quickly becomes popular, with seventeen newspapers from Georgia to New Hampshire reproducing it. In 1931 as "The Star-Spangled Banner" it is officially adopted at the national anthem of the United States: O! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand, Between their lov'd home and the war's desolation, Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the Heav'n rescued land, Praise the Power that hath made and preserv'd us a nation! Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just, And this be our motto — "In God is our Trust;" And the star-spangled Banner in triumph shall wave, O'er the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave. —last stanza of Francis Scott Key's "The Battle of Fort McHenry" Works published United Kingdom Thomas Brown, The Paradise of Coquettes Lord Byron: The Corsair, sells 10,000 copies on the first day (February 1), and over 25,000 copies in the first month, going through seven editions "Lara, a Tale" written May 14–June 14 and published anonymously in the summer, it sells 6,000 copies by early August; published together with "Jacqueline, a Tale" by Samuel Rogers "Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte", published anonymously written April 9 when Napoleon abdicates, published April 16 Henry Cary, translation of Dante's Divine Comedy, complete in blank verse George Daniel, The Modern Dunciad, published anonymously Pierce Egan (the elder), The Mistress of Royalty; or, The Loves of Florizel and Perdita,