1800 in literature

The year 1800 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

• The United States creates the Library of Congress.
• January 10 – The Serampore Mission and Press is established in Serampore (now part of West Bengal) India by Baptist missionaries Joshua Marshman and William Ward. The press would grow into the largest in Asia, printing books in nearly every Indian language.^[1]

New books

• Helen Craik - The Hermit's Cell
• Maria Edgeworth - Castle Rackrent
• Jane Elson - The Romance of the Castle
• Stéphanie Félicité, Comtesse de Genlis - The Rival Mothers
• Catherine Harris - Edwardina
• William Henry Ireland
  • Gondez the Monk
  • Rimualdo
• Francis Lathom – Mystery
• William Linley - Forbidden Apartments
• Mary Meeke - Anecdotes of the Altamont Family
• Eliza Parsons – The Miser and his Family
• Regina Marie Roche
  • The Nocturnal Visit
  • The Vicar of Lansdowne
• Catherine Selden - Serena
• Horatio Smith – A Family Story
• Henry Summersett - Final Retribution
• William Frederick Williams - Fitz-Maurice

New drama

• Friedrich Schiller - Maria Stuart

Non-fiction

• Elizabeth Hamilton - Memoirs of Modern Philosophers
• Arnold Hermann Ludwig Heeren - Geschichte des europäischen Staatensystems
• Immanuel Kant - Logik
• Friedrich Schelling - System des transcendentalen Idealismus
• Parson Weems - The Life of Washington

Births

• January 6 - Anna Maria Hall, novelist
• March 25 - Alexis Paulin Paris, editor of medieval French manuscripts
• May 5 - Louis Christophe François Hachette, publisher
• October 18 - Sir Henry Taylor, dramatist
• October 25 - Thomas Macaulay, poet
• November 27 - Fanny Kemble
  • Date unknown - Wanda Malecka, Polish writer

Deaths

• January 22 - George Steevens, Shakespearean commentator
• February 22 - Joseph Warton
• March 14 - Daines Barrington
• March 29 - Marc René, marquis de Montalembert
• April 25 - William Cowper, poet

Awards

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