1806 in literature

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Events

• Noah Webster publishes his first English dictionary.

New books

• Harriet Butler - Vensenshon
• Catherine Cuthbertson - Santo Sebastiano
• Charlotte Dacre - Zofloya
• Maria Edgeworth - Leonora
• Sophia Frances - Vivonio
• William Herbert -The Spanish Outlaw
• Rachel Hunter -Lady Maclairn, The Victim of Villany
• Francis Lathom - The Mysterious Freebooter
• Matthew Gregory Lewis - Feudal Tyrants
• Lady Morgan - The Wild Irish Girl
• Henrietta Rouviere Mosse - The Heirs of Villeroy
• Louisa Stanhope - Montbrasil Abbey

New drama

• Richard Cumberland - Hint to Husbands
• Heinrich von Kleist - The Broken Jug (written)
• Leandro Fernández de Moratín - The Maidens' Consent (first performed)

Poetry

• Jane & Ann Taylor - Rhymes for the Nursery

Non-fiction

• J. C. Adelung - Mithridates, a History of Language and Dialects
• Johann Gottlieb Fichte - Bericht über die Wissenschaftslehre
• James Madison - An Examination of the British Doctrine which Subjects to Capture a Neutral Trade not Open in Time of Peace

Births

• February 1 - Jane Williams (Ysgafell),

poet, folklorist and historian (died 1885)

• March 6 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, poet (d. 1861)
• April 17 - William Gilmore Simms, author (d. 1870)
• May 20 - John Stuart Mill, philosopher (d. 1873)
• July 20 - John Sterling, author (died 1844)
• August 31 - Charles Lever, Anglo-Irish novelist (d. 1872)

Deaths

• February 12 - Gabriel-Henri Gaillard, French historian
• February 24 - Collin d'Harleville, French dramatist
• March 3 - Heinrich Christian Boie, German poet and editor
• April 4 - Carlo Gozzi, Venetian dramatist
• October 19 - Henry Kirke White, poet
• October 28 - Charlotte Turner Smith, poet and novelist
• November 23 - Sir Roger Newdigate, founder of the Newdigate prize

Awards