1805 in literature

1805 in literature

The year 1805 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

* Samuel Taylor Coleridge appointed Acting Public Secretary in Malta.
*Jacob Grimm is invited to Paris as an assistant to Friedrich Karl von Savigny.

New books

*Eugenia de Acton - "The Nuns of the Desert"
*Hosea Ballou - "A Treatise on Atonement"
*Sophie Ristaud Cottin - "The Saracen"
*Charlotte Dacre - "Confessions of the Nun of St. Omer"
*Robert Charles Dallas - "The Morlands"
*Denis Diderot - "Rameau's Nephew"
*Maria Edgeworth - "The Modern Griselda"
*Elizabeth Helme:
**"The Chronicles of Christabelle de Mowbray"
**"The Pilgrims of the Cross"
*William Henry Ireland:
**"The Confessions of William Henry Ireland"
** "Gondez the Monk"
*Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool - "Treatise on the Coins of the Realm"
*Ellis Cornelia Knight - "Description of Latium" or "La Campagna di Roma"
*Matthew Gregory Lewis - "The Bravo of Venice"
*Mary Meeke - "The Wonder of the Village"
*Anna Maria Porter - "A Sailor's Friendship, and A Soldier's Love"
*Catherine Selden - "Villa Nova"
*Richard Sickelmore – "Rashleigh Abbey"
*Mercy Otis Warren - "History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution"
*William Frederick Williams - "The Witcheries of Craig Isaf"
*Sophia Woodfall - "The Child of the Abbey"
*R. P. M. Yorke - "My Master's Secret"
*Mary Julia Young - "The Witches of Glenshiel"

New drama

*Alexandre-Vincent Pineux Duval - "Le Menuisier de Livonie"
*Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger - "Hakon Jarl"

Poetry

*Sir Walter Scott - "The Lay of the Last Minstrel"
*Sir Martin Archer Shee - "Rhymes on Art"
*Robert Southey - "Madoc"

Births

*February 4 - William Harrison Ainsworth, novelist (+ 1882)
*April 2 - Hans Christian Andersen, writer (+ 1875)
*July 29 - Alexis de Tocqueville, writer (+ 1859)
*August 29 - Frederick Maurice, theologian and novelist
*September 19 - John Stevens Cabot Abbott, historian
*December 23 - Joseph Smith, Jr., founder and prophet of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Deaths

*March 29 - Jean Elliot, Scottish poet
*May 9 - Friedrich Schiller, German playwright
*May 25 - William Paley, philosopher
*June 18 - Arthur Murphy, who wrote as "Charles Ranger"
*July 27 - Brian Merriman, Irish language poet
*August 3 - Christopher Anstey, poet
*September 3 - Johann Martin Abele, publisher
* "date unknown" - Anna Hammar-Rosén, publisher (b. 1735)

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