1815 in literature

1815 in literature

The year 1815 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

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* 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"
*Sarah Green - "The Fugitive"
*Elizabeth Gunning - "The Victims of Seduction"
*Ann Hatton
**"The Rock of Glotzden"
**"Secret Avengers"
*Mary Hays - "The Brothers, or Consequences"
*Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann - "The Devil's Elixir"
*Barbara Hofland - "A Father as He Should Be"
*Christian Isobel Johnstone - ""
*Mary Meeke - "The Spanish Campaign"
*Mary Pilkington - "The Unfortunate Choice"
*Jane Porter - "The Pastor's Fireside"
*Regina Marie Roche - "Edinburg; a Novel"
*Sir Walter Scott - "Guy Mannering"
*Catherine Smith - ""
*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"
*Percy Bysshe Shelley - "Alastor, or The Spirit of Solitude"
*William Wordsworth - "White Doe of Rhylstone"

Non-fiction

*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 (d. 1882)
*May 5 - Eugène Marin Labiche, dramatist (d. 1888)
*October 4 - Franz Jakob Clemens, philosopher (d. 1862)
*November 17 - Eliza Farnham, novelist and reformer (d. 1864)
*"date unknown" - Martins Pena, Brazilian dramatist (d. 1848)

Deaths

*January 21 - Matthias Claudius, poet (b. 1740)
*November 11 - Pierre-Louis Ginguené, writer and critic (b. 1748)
*November 17 - Dorothea Viehmann, fairy-tale writer (b. 1755)
*December - Jan Potocki, polymath (b. 1761)
*December 20 - Giovanni Meli, Sicilian poet (b. 1740)

Awards

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