1801 in literature

1801 in literature

The year 1801 in literature involved some significant events.

Events

*In recognition of the English attack on Copenhagen, Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger produces his first dramatic sketch.

New books

*Mary Charlton – "The Pirate of Naples"
*François-René de Chateaubriand – "Atala"
*Maria Edgeworth - "Belinda"
*Robert Evans – "The Dream"
*Elizabeth Helme – "St. Margaret's Cave"
*Rachel Hunter – "Letitia"
*Isabella Kelly – "Ruthinglenne"
*Sophia King – "The Fatal Secret"
*Mary Meeke – "Which is the Man"
*Agnes Musgrave – "The Confession"
*Amelia Opie – "Father and Daughter"
*Eliza Parsons – "The Peasant of Ardenne Forest"
*Annabella Plumptre – "The Western Mail"
*J. H. Sarratt – "Terror of Bohemia"
*Maria Lavinia Smith – "The Fugitive of the Forest"
*Henry Summersett – "The Wizard and the Sword"
*Henry Whitfield – "Geraldwood"
*R. P. M. Yorke – "The Haunted Palace"

New drama

*Friedrich von Schiller
**"The Maid of Orleans" ( _ge. Die Jungfrau von Orleans)
**"Maria Stuart"

Poetry

*William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge - "Lyrical Ballads" (2nd edition)

Non-fiction

*Francis Barrett -"The Magus, or Celestial Intelligencer"
*Elizabeth Hamilton - "Letters on the Elementary Principles of Education"
*Arthur Murphy - "Life of David Garrick"

Births

* February 16 - Frederic Madden, palaeographer
* February 21 - John Henry Newman, Catholic writer
* March 4 - Karl Rudolf Hagenbach, historian
* March 15 - George Perkins Marsh, philologist
* August 10 - Christian Hermann Weisse, philosopher
* September 4 - Alfred Guillaume Gabriel, Count D'Orsay, wit
* November 3 - Karl Baedeker, publisher
* November 10 - Vladimir Dal, lexicographer
* November 22 - Abraham Hayward
* November 24 - Ludwig Bechstein
* December 4 - Karl Ludwig Michelet, philosopher
*December 7 - Johann Nestroy, dramatist
* December 11 - Christian Dietrich Grabbe, dramatist

Deaths

*March 14 - Ignacy Krasicki, poet
* March 25 - Novalis, German poet
* April 11 - Antoine de Rivarol
* September 1 - Robert Bage, novelist

Awards

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