1814 in literature

1814 in literature

The year 1814 in literature involved some significant events.

Events

* In England, a revolutionary steam-powered press prints the "Times" newspaper at a rate of 1100 copies per hour.

New books

*Jane Austen — "Mansfield Park"
*Fanny Burney — "The Wanderer"
*Mary Brunton - — "Discipline"
*Selina Davenport — "The Hypocrite"
*Maria Edgeworth — "Patronage"
*Pierce Egan — "The Mistress of Royalty"
*Jane Harvey
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*Ann Hatton — "Conviction"
*Laetitia Matilda Hawkins - "Rossane; or A father’s labour lost"
*William Henry Hitchener — "The Towers of Ravenswold"
*Barbara Hofland — "Emily and Her Friends"
*Christian Isobel Johnstone - "the Saxon and the Gaël"
*Mary Meeke — "Conscience"
*Lady Morgan — "O'Donnell"
*Anna Maria Porter — "The Recluse of Norway"
*Regina Marie Roche— "Trecothick Bower"
*Honoria Scott — "The Castle of Strathmay"
*Sir Walter Scott — "Waverley"
*Mary Martha Sherwood — "The History of Little Henry and his Bearer"
*Louisa Stanhope — ""
*Elizabeth Thomas — "The Prison-House"
*Jane West — "Alicia de Lacy"

New drama

*Richard Lalor Sheil - "Adelaide, or the Emigrants"

Poetry

*Lord Byron - "The Corsair"
*William Wordsworth - "The Excursion"

Non-fiction

*Thomas Hartwell Horne - "Introduction to the Study of Bibliography"
*Elizabeth Wallbridge - "The Dairyman's Daughter"

Births

* June 8 - Charles Reade, English writer (+ 1884)
* June 14 - Harriet Beecher Stowe (+ 1896)
* August 28 - Sheridan le Fanu, Irish writer (+ 1873)
* October 3 - Mikhail Lermontov, Russian poet (+ 1841)
* November 6 - William Wells Brown African-American writer (+ 1884)
* December 27 - Jules Simon, French philosopher (+ 1896)

Deaths

* February 24 - Julien Louis Geoffroy, French literary critic.
* July 25 - Charles Dibdin, novelist, dramatist and actor
* December 2 - Marquis de Sade, pornographic author

Awards

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