1807 in literature

1807 in literature

The year 1807 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

* John Wiley & Sons book publishing company founded.
* Washington Irving launches the satirical magazine "Salmagundi"

New books

*Harriet Butler - "Count Eugenio"
*Harriet Corp - "An Antidote to the Miseries of Human Life"
*Charlotte Dacre - "The Libertine"
*Sophia Frances - "Constance de Lindensdorf"
*Elizabeth Gunning - "The Orphans of Snowdon"
*Rachel Hunter -"Family Annals"
*William Henry Ireland - "The Catholic"
*Charles Lamb & Mary Lamb - "Tales from Shakespeare"
*Matthew Gregory Lewis - "The Wood Daemon"
*Charles Maturin - "The Fatal Revenge"
*Mary Meeke - "Julien"
*Theodore Melville - "The Benevolent Monk"
*Edward Montague
**"The Demon of Sicily"
**"Legends of a Nunnery"
*Henrietta Rouviere Mosse - "A Peep at our Ancestors"
*Mary Pilkington - ""
*Anna Maria Porter - "The Hungarian Brothers"
*Regina Marie Roche - "The Discarded Son"
*Anne Louise Germaine de Stael -"Corinne"
*Cathérine F. de St-Venant - "Léopold de Circé"
*Sarah Wilkinson
**"The Castle Spectre"
**"The Fugitive Countess"
*Mary Julia Young - "A Summer at Brighton"

New drama

*Giovanni Giraud - "Gelosie per equivoco"

Poetry

*James Hogg - "The Mountain Bard"
*William Wordsworth - "Poems in Two Volumes", including "Ode on the Intimations of Immortality"

Non-fiction

*Antoine Alexandre Barbier - "Dictionnaire des ouvrages anonymes et pseudonymes"
*Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel -"Phenomenology of Spirit"
*Gottlieb Hufeland - "New Foundations of Political Economy"
*Alexander von Humboldt - "Voyage aux régions équinoxiales du nouveau continent 1799-1804"

Births

* February 27 - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, poet (d. 1882)
* June 28 - Philipp Reclam, German bookseller and publisher (d. 1896)
* June 30 - Friedrich Theodor Vischer, German author († 1887)
* September 9 - Richard Chenevix Trench, poet
* October 23 - Baroness Tautphoeus, novelist (d. 1893)
* October 30 - Christopher Wordsworth, Biblical editor and commentator, nephew of William Wordsworth
* Jónas Hallgrímsson, Icelandic author

Deaths

* December 19 - Friedrich Melchior, baron von Grimm, writer
* December 21 - John Newton, songwriter ("Amazing Grace")

Awards

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