- 1818 in literature
The year 1818 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
Events
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Lord Byron begins writing "Don Juan ".
* Series of lectures on poetry, drama, philosophy -Samuel Taylor Coleridge .New books
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Jane Austen - "Persuasion"
*Thomas Bowdler - "Family Shakespeare"
*Selina Davenport - "An Angel's Form and a Devil's Heart "
*Susan Edmonstoune Ferrier - "Marriage"
*Franz Grillparzer - "Sappho"
*Ann Hatton - "Secrets in Every Mansion "
*Mary Meeke - "The Veiled Protectress "
*Thomas Love Peacock - "Nightmare Abbey "
*Anna Maria Porter - ""
*Sir Walter Scott - "The Heart of Midlothian "
*Mary Shelley - "Frankenstein "
*Louisa Stanhope
**"The Bandit's Bride "
**"The Nun of Santa Maria di Tindaro "
*Elizabeth Thomas - "Woman, or Minor Maxims; a Sketch "New drama
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Franz Grillparzer - "Sapho"Poetry
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Kristijonas Donelaitis - "The Seasons"
*John Keats - "Endymion"
*Percy Bysshe Shelley - "Ozymandias "Non-fiction
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Josef Dobrovsky - "History of the Czech Language"
*Henry Hallam - "The View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages"
*William Hazlitt - "Lectures on the English Poets"
*Charles Mills -"History of Mohammedanism "
*Jacques Auguste Simon Collin de Plancy - "Dictionnaire Infernal "Births
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July 30 -Emily Brontë (+1848 )
*November 9 -Ivan Turgenev (+1883 )Deaths
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January 11 -Johann David Wyss , author
*May 14 -Matthew Gregory Lewis , novelist and dramatist
*"date unknown"
**Malcolm Laing , historianAwards
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