1815 in literature

The year 1815 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

[edit] Events

First issue of the North American Review with signature of its editor William Tudor (1779-1830).

• The Brothers Grimm complete the writing of Grimms' Fairy Tales.
• First publication of the North American Review.

[edit] New books

• John Agg - A Month at Brussels
• Sarah Green - The Fugitive
• Elizabeth Gunning - The Victims of Seduction
• Ann Hatton
  • The Rock of Glotzden
  • Secret Avengers
• Mary Hays - The Brothers, or Consequences
• Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann - The Devil's Elixir
• Barbara Hofland - A Father as He Should Be
• Mary Meeke - The Spanish Campaign
• Mary Pilkington - The Unfortunate Choice
• Jane Porter - The Pastor's Fireside
• Regina Marie Roche - Edinburg; a Novel
• Sir Walter Scott - Guy Mannering
• Catherine Smith - Barozzi or the Venetian Sorceress: A Romance of the Sixteenth Century
• Elizabeth Thomas - The Baron of Falconberg

[edit] New drama

• Barbarina Brand - Ina, a tragedy in five acts
• J. S. Knowles - Caius Gracchus
• Jane Scott -The Gipsy Girl

[edit] Poetry

• Pierre-Jean de Béranger - Chansons I
• Percy Bysshe Shelley - Alastor, or The Spirit of Solitude
• William Wordsworth - White Doe of Rhylstone

[edit] Non-fiction

• George Cavendish -The Life and Death of Cardinal Wolsey
• Les Jeux des Jeunes Garçons
• Thomas Malthus - An Inquiry into the Nature and Progress of Rent

[edit] Births

• April 24 - Anthony Trollope, novelist (d. 1882)
• May 5 - Eugène Marin Labiche, dramatist (d. 1888)
• October 4 - Franz Jakob Clemens, philosopher (d. 1862)
• November 17 - Eliza Farnham, novelist and reformer (d. 1864)
• date unknown - Martins Pena, Brazilian dramatist (d. 1848)

[edit] Deaths

• January 21 - Matthias Claudius, poet (b. 1740)
• November 11 - Pierre-Louis Ginguené, writer and critic (b. 1748)
• November 17 - Dorothea Viehmann, fairy-tale writer (b. 1755)
• December - Jan Potocki, polymath (b. 1761)
• December 20 - Giovanni Meli, Sicilian poet (b. 1740)

[edit] Awards