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The year 1815 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
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Events
- The Brothers Grimm complete the writing of Grimms' Fairy Tales.
- First publication of the North American Review.
New books
- John Agg - A Month at Brussels
- Jane Austen - Emma (anonymous; dated 1816)
- Sarah Green - The Fugitive
- Elizabeth Gunning - The Victims of Seduction
- Ann Hatton - Secret Avengers
- Mary Hays - The Brothers, or Consequences
- E. T. A. Hoffmann - The Devil's Elixir
- Barbara Hofland - A Father as He Should Be
- Christian Isobel Johnstone - Clan-Albin: A National Tale
- Mary Meeke - The Spanish Campaign
- Thomas Love Peacock - Headlong Hall (his first novel; anonymous; dated 1816).[1]
- Mary Pilkington - The Unfortunate Choice
- Jane Porter - The Pastor's Fireside
- Regina Marie Roche - Edinburg; a Novel
- Sir Walter Scott - Guy Mannering (anonymous)
- Catherine Smith - Barozzi or the Venetian Sorceress: A Romance of the Sixteenth Century
- Elizabeth Thomas - The Baron of Falconberg
New drama
- Barbarina Brand - Ina, a tragedy in five acts
- J. S. Knowles - Caius Gracchus
- Jane Scott -The Gipsy Girl
Poetry
- Pierre-Jean de Béranger - Chansons I
- Lord Byron - Hebrew Melodies
- Percy Bysshe Shelley - Alastor, or The Spirit of Solitude
- William Wordsworth - White Doe of Rhylstone
Non-fiction
- Simón Bolívar - Letter to Jamaica (September 6)
- 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
Births
- April 24 - Anthony Trollope, novelist (died 1882)
- May 5 - Eugène Marin Labiche, dramatist (died 1888)
- October 4 - Franz Jakob Clemens, philosopher (died 1862)
- November 17 - Eliza Farnham, novelist and reformer (ddied 1864)
- date unknown - Martins Pena, Brazilian dramatist (died 1848)
Deaths
- January 21 - Matthias Claudius, poet (born 1740)
- January 30 - Hans Christian Amberg, lexicographer (born 1749)
- November 2 - Gottlieb Christoph Harless, bibliographer (born 1738)
- November 11 - Pierre-Louis Ginguené, writer and critic (born 1748)
- November 17 - Dorothea Viehmann, fairy-tale writer (born 1755)
- December - Jan Potocki, polymath (born 1761)
- December 20 - Giovanni Meli, Sicilian poet (born 1740)
Awards
References
- ^ "Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866)". Encyclopædia Britannica. 21 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 22.