1811 in literature

1811 in literature

The year 1811 in literature involved some significant new books, including Jane Austen's "Sense and Sensibility".

Events

*Sir Walter Scott buys Abbotsford House.

New books

*Jane Austen - "Sense and Sensibility"
*Amelia Beauclerc - "Eve of Cambria"
*Mary Brunton - "Self-Control"
*Augustus Jacob Crandolpho - "The Mysterious Hand"
*Charlotte Dacre - "The Passions"
*Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué - "Undine"
*Rachel Hunter -"The Schoolmistress"
*Heinrich von Kleist - "Michael Kohlhaas"
*Mary Meeke - "Stratagems Defeated"
*Lady Morgan - "The Missionary: An Indian Tale"
*Emma Parker - "Elfrida, Heiress of Belgrove"
*Catherine Smith
**"Barozzi"
**"The Caledonian Banditti"
*Sarah Wigley - ""
*Sophia F Ziegenhirt - "Seabrook Village and Its Inhabitants"

New drama

*Sarah Isdell - "The Poor Gentlewoman"

Poetry

*Anna Maria Porter - "Ballad Romances, and Other Poems"
*Thomas Pringle - ""
*Percy Bysshe Shelley - "St. Irvyne"

Non-fiction

*K. A. Böttiger - "Kunstmythologie"
*Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - "Aus meinem Leben: Dichtung und Wahrheit"
*Barthold G. Niebuhr - "Roman History"
*John Roberton - "On Diseases of the Generative System"
*Percy Bysshe Shelley - "The Necessity of Atheism"

Births

* January 9 - Gilbert Abbott à Beckett (+ 1856)
* February 1 - Arthur Henry Hallam, poet (+ 1833)
* February 19 - Jules Sandeau, French dramatist and novelist
*June 14 - Harriet Beecher Stowe, novelist
* July 18 - William Makepeace Thackeray (+ 1863)
* August 31 - Theophile Gautier, poet, novelist (+ 1872)
* September 17 - August Blanche, Swedish writer, statesman (d. 1868)

Deaths

* January 10 - Joseph Chénier, poet and dramatist, brother of André Chénier
* May 7 - Richard Cumberland (dramatist)
* September 14 - James Grahame, poet
* September 30 - Bishop Thomas Percy, collector of "Percy's Reliques"
* November 21 - Heinrich von Kleist, poet

Awards

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