1814 in literature
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The year 1814 in literature involved some significant events.
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Events
- November 29 - In London, The Times newspaper is printed using a revolutionary steam press for the first time[1] at a rate of 1100 copies per hour.
New books
- Jane Austen - Mansfield Park
- Fanny Burney - The Wanderer: or, Female Difficulties (her last novel)
- Mary Brunton - Discipline
- Selina Davenport - The Hypocrite
- Maria Edgeworth - Patronage
- Pierce Egan - The Mistress of Royalty
- Jane Harvey
- Auberry Stanhope
- Ethelia: a Tale
- Ann Hatton - Conviction
- Laetitia Matilda Hawkins - Rossane; or A father’s labour lost
- William Henry Hitchener - The Towers of Ravenswold
- Barbara Hofland - Emily and Her Friends
- Christian Isobel Johnstone - the Saxon and the Gaël
- Mary Meeke - Conscience
- Lady Morgan - O'Donnell
- Anna Maria Porter - The Recluse of Norway
- Regina Maria Roche - Trecothick Bower
- Honoria Scott - The Castle of Strathmay
- Walter Scott - Waverley (his first novel)
- Mary Martha Sherwood - The History of Little Henry and his Bearer
- Louisa Stanhope - Madelina: A Tale Founded on Facts
- Elizabeth Thomas - The Prison-House
- Jane West - Alicia de Lacy
New drama
- Richard Lalor Sheil - Adelaide, or the Emigrants
Poetry
- Lord Byron
- The Corsair (sells 10,000 copies on publication day (1 February)[2] and over 25,000 in the first month, going through seven editions)
- Lara[3] (sells 6,000 copies on publication in the summer)
- Henry Cary - translation of Dante's Divine Comedy (complete in blank verse)
- William Wordsworth - The Excursion
Non-fiction
- Thomas Hartwell Horne - Introduction to the Study of Bibliography
- Percy Bysshe Shelley - A Refutation of Deism
- Elizabeth Wallbridge - The Dairyman's Daughter
Births
- June 8 - Charles Reade, English writer (died 1884)
- August 28 - Sheridan le Fanu, Irish writer (died 1873)
- October 3 - Mikhail Lermontov, Russian poet (died 1841)
- November 6 - William Wells Brown African-American writer (died 1884)
- December 27 - Jules Simon, French philosopher (died 1896)
Deaths
- January 4 - Johann Georg Jacobi, poet (born 1740)
- January 27 - Johann Gottlieb Fichte, philosopher (born 1762)
- February 24 - Julien Louis Geoffroy, French literary critic (born 1743)
- July 25 - Charles Dibdin, novelist, dramatist and actor (born 1745)
- September 5 - Gottfried Gabriel Bredow, historian (born 1773)
- November 10 - Abbé Aubert, dramatist, poet and journalist (born 1731)
- December 2 - Marquis de Sade, pornographic author (born 1740)
Awards
References
- ^ Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 246–247. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
- ^ Jones, Neal T., ed. (1984). A Book of Days for the Literary Year. London; New York: Thames and Hudson. ISBN 0-500-01332-2.
- ^ Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
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