1811 in literature

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The year 1811 in literature involved some significant new books, including Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility.

Events

• Sir Walter Scott buys Abbotsford House.

New books

• Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility
• Amelia Beauclerc - Eva of Cambria
• Mary Brunton - Self-Control
• Augustus Jacob Crandolph - The Mysterious Hand
• Charlotte Dacre - The Passions
• Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué - Undine
• Rachel Hunter -The Schoolmistress
• Heinrich von Kleist - Michael Kohlhaas
• Mary Meeke - Stratagems Defeated
• Lady Morgan - The Missionary: An Indian Tale
• Emma Parker - Elfrida, Heiress of Belgrove
• Percy Bysshe Shelley - St. Irvyne; or, The Rosicrucian
• Catherine Smith
  • Barozzi
  • The Caledonian Bandit
• Elizabeth Thomas - Mortimer Hall
• Sarah Wigley - Glencarron: a Scottish Tale
• Sophia F Ziegenhirt - Seabrook Village and Its Inhabitants

New drama

• Sarah Isdell - The Poor Gentlewoman

Poetry

• Anna Maria Porter - Ballad Romances, and Other Poems
• Thomas Pringle - The Institute: a Heroic Poem

Non-fiction

• K. A. Böttiger - Kunstmythologie
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Aus meinem Leben: Dichtung und Wahrheit
• Barthold G. Niebuhr - Roman History
• John Roberton - On Diseases of the Generative System
• Percy Bysshe Shelley - The Necessity of Atheism

Births

• January 9 - Gilbert Abbott à Beckett (+ 1856)
• February 1 - Arthur Henry Hallam, poet (+ 1833)
• February 19 - Jules Sandeau, French dramatist and novelist
• June 14 - Harriet Beecher Stowe, novelist
• July 18 - William Makepeace Thackeray (+ 1863)
• August 31 - Théophile Gautier, poet, novelist (+ 1872)
• September 17 - August Blanche, Swedish writer, statesman (died 1868)

Deaths

• January 10 - Joseph Chénier, poet and dramatist, brother of André Chénier
• May 7 - Richard Cumberland (dramatist)
• September 14 - James Grahame, poet
• September 30 - Bishop Thomas Percy, collector of Percy's Reliques
• November 21 - Heinrich von Kleist, poet

Awards