1816 in literature

1816 in literature

The year 1816 in literature involved some significant new books.

Events

*John Keats composes the poem, "Sleep and Poetry", while staying at the house of his friend, Leigh Hunt.

New books

*Thomas Ashe - "The Soldier of Fortune"
*Jane Austen - "Emma"
*Benjamin Constant - "Adolphe"
*Selina Davenport - "The Original of the Miniature"
*Stéphanie Félicité, Comtesse de Genlis - "Jane of France"
*Sarah Green - "The Reformist"
*Jane Harvey - "Brougham Castle"
*Ann Hatton - "Chronicles of an Illustrious House"
*Barbara Hofland - "The Maid of Moscow"
*John Hoyland (writer) - "English Quaker"
*Leigh Hunt - "The Story of Rimini"
*Henry Gally Knight - "Ilderim, a Syrian Tale"
*Caroline Lamb - "Glenarvon"
*Agnes Lancaster - "The Abbess of Valtiera"
*José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi - "The Mangy Parrot"
*Emma Parker - "Self-deception"
*David W. Paynter - "Godfrey Ranger"
*Thomas Love Peacock - "Headlong Hall"
*Henrietta Roviere - "Craig Melrose Abbey"
*Sir Walter Scott
**"The Antiquary"
**"The Black Dwarf"
**"Old Mortality"
*Ann Sullivan - "Owen Castle"
*Sophia F.Ziegenhirt - "The Orphan of Tintern Abbey"

New drama

*Charles Maturin - "Bertram; or The Castle of St. Aldobrand"

Poetry

*Lord Byron - "The Siege of Corinth"
*Samuel Taylor Coleridge - "Kubla Khan" (written in 1797)
*Percy Bysshe Shelley - "Alastor"

Non-fiction

*Samuel Taylor Coleridge - "Statesman's Manual"
*Nikolai Karamzin - "History of the Russian Empire"

Births

* April 21- Charlotte Brontë (+ 1855)

Deaths

* February 22 - Adam Ferguson, philosopher
* July 7 - Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Awards

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