- 1821 in literature
The year 1821 in literature involved some significant events.
Events
* In the first known obscenity case in the
United States , aMassachusetts court outlawed theJohn Cleland novel, "Fanny Hill ". The publisher, Peter Holmes, was convicted for printing a "lewd and obscene" novel.
*August 4 - Atkinson & Alexander publish the "Saturday Evening Post " for the first time as a weeklynewspaper .New books
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James Fenimore Cooper - "The Spy"
*Thomas De Quincey - "Confessions of an English Opium Eater "
*Pierce Egan - "Life in London "
*John Galt
**"Annals of the Parish "
**"The Ayrshire Legatees "
*Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - "Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years " ( _ge. Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre)
*I. M. H. Hales - "Talisman, a Tale of Mystery "
*Ann Hatton - "Lovers and Friends "
*C. D. Haynes - "The Spectre of St. Michael's "
*Hannah Maria Jones – "Gretna Green"
*Thomas H. Marshall - "The Irish Necromancer "
*Charles Nodier - "Smarra "
*Thomas Love Peacock - "Maid Marian"
*Anna Maria Porter - "The Village of Mariendorpt "
*Jane Porter - "The Scottish Chiefs "
*SirWalter Scott - "Kenilworth"New drama
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Alexandre-Vincent Pineux Duval - "Le Faux Bonhomme"
*Franz Grillparzer - "Das Goldene Vliess"Poetry
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Heinrich Heine - "Poems"
*Alessandro Manzoni - "Il Cinque Maggio"Non-fiction
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George Grote - "Statement of the Question of Parliamentary Reform"
*William Hazlitt - "Table Talk"
*James Mill - "Elements of Political Economy"
*John Roberton - "Kalogynomia, or the Laws of Female Beauty"
*Robert Southey - "Life of Cromwell"Births
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March 19 -Richard Francis Burton (+1890 )
*April 9 -Charles Baudelaire (+1867 )
*October 30 -Fyodor Dostoevsky (+1881 )
*November 28 -Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov (+ 1877)
*December 6 -Dora Greenwell (+1882 )
*December 12 -Gustave Flaubert (+1880 )Deaths
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January 14 -Jens Zetlitz , Norwegian poet
*February 23 -John Keats , poet
*February 26 -Joseph de Maistre , philosopher
*March 17 -Louis-Marcelin de Fontanes , poet
*May 2 -Hester Thrale , diarist and friend of Dr Johnson
*August 1 -Elizabeth Inchbald , writerAwards
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