1801 in literature

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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
• Anne Seymour Damer - Belmour
• 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 – The 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 (German: Die Jungfrau von Orleans)
  • Maria Stuart
• The Gypsy Prince by Thomas Moore and Michael Kelly (tenor)

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

• January 2 - Johann Kaspar Lavater, Swiss poet (born 1741)
• March 14 - Ignacy Krasicki, poet (born 1735)
• March 21 - John Holt, non-fiction author (born 1743)
• March 25 - Novalis, German poet (born 1772)
• April 11 - Antoine de Rivarol, epigrammatist (born 1753)
• September 1 - Robert Bage, novelist (born 1728)
• September 23 - Thomas Nowell, historian (b. c. 1730)
• date unknown - Giovanni Andrea Lazzarini, painter, poet and art historian (born 1710)

Awards