1807 in literature
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The year 1807 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
Events
- June 24 - The Tout-Paris assists in the first production of the Panorama de Momus, a vaudeville by Marc-Antoine Désaugiers.
- On a visit to Dresden, Heinrich von KleistHeinrich von KleistBernd Heinrich Wilhelm von Kleist was a poet, dramatist, novelist and short story writer. The Kleist Prize, a prestigious prize for German literature, is named after him.- Life :...
is arrested by the French as a spy, and kept a prisoner for six months at Châlons-sur-Marne. - John Wiley & SonsJohn Wiley & SonsJohn Wiley & Sons, Inc., also referred to as Wiley, is a global publishing company that specializes in academic publishing and markets its products to professionals and consumers, students and instructors in higher education, and researchers and practitioners in scientific, technical, medical, and...
book publishing company founded. - Washington IrvingWashington IrvingWashington Irving was an American author, essayist, biographer and historian of the early 19th century. He was best known for his short stories "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle", both of which appear in his book The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. His historical works...
launches the satirical magazine Salmagundi.
New books
- Harriet ButlerHarriet ButlerHarriet Butler was an American tennis player of the end of the 19th century.Notably, she won the US Women's National Championship in 1893 in women's doubles with Aline Terry.-Doubles titles:- Performances at Grand Slams :...
- Count Eugenio - Harriet Corp - An Antidote to the Miseries of Human Life
- Charlotte DacreCharlotte DacreCharlotte Dacre was an English author of Gothic novels.Most references to her today are under the name Charlotte Dacre, but she first wrote under the pseudonym Rosa Matilda, and later adopted a second pseudonym to tease and confuse her critics...
- The Libertine - Sophia Frances - Constance de Lindensdorf
- Elizabeth Gunning - The Orphans of Snowdon
- Rachel HunterRachel Hunter (author)Rachel Hunter was an English novelist of the early 19th century.-Works:*Letitia, or, The Castle without a Spectre *The History of the Grubthorpe Family...
-Family Annals - William Henry IrelandWilliam Henry IrelandWilliam Henry Ireland was an English forger of would-be Shakespearean documents and plays. He is less well-known as a poet, writer of gothic novels and histories...
- The Catholic - Charles Lamb & Mary LambMary LambMary Ann Lamb , was an English writer, the sister and collaborator of Charles Lamb.-Biography:She was born on 3 December 1764. In 1796, Mary, who had suffered a breakdown from the strain of caring for her family, killed her mother with a kitchen knife, and from then on had to be kept under constant...
- Tales from ShakespeareTales from ShakespeareTales from Shakespeare was an English children's book written by Charles Lamb with his sister Mary Lamb in 1807. It was illustrated by Arthur Rackham in 1899 and 1909.... - Matthew Gregory LewisMatthew Gregory LewisMatthew Gregory Lewis was an English novelist and dramatist, often referred to as "Monk" Lewis, because of the success of his classic Gothic novel, The Monk.-Family:...
- The Wood Daemon - Charles MaturinCharles MaturinCharles Robert Maturin, also known as C.R. Maturin was an Irish Protestant clergyman and a writer of gothic plays and novels.-Biography:...
- The Fatal Revenge - Mary MeekeMary MeekeMary Meeke was a prolific author of around 30 novels published by the Minerva Press during the early 19th century, and is believed to have died in October 1816....
- Julien - Theodore Melville - The Benevolent Monk
- Edward Montague
- The Demon of Sicily
- Legends of a Nunnery
- Henrietta Rouviere Mosse - A Peep at our Ancestors
- Mary PilkingtonMary PilkingtonMary Pilkington was an English novelist and poet.She was born in Cambridge, England. When her father died, she was aged fifteen, and went to live with her grandfather. The man who had taken over her father's medical practice became Mary's husband in 1786. While he was away working as a naval...
- Ellen: Heiress of the Castle - Anna Maria PorterAnna Maria PorterAnna Maria Porter , poet, novelist and sister of Jane Porter, was born in the Bailey in Durham, the posthumous child of William Porter , who had served as an army surgeon for 23 years. He is buried in St Oswald's church, Durham....
- The Hungarian Brothers - Regina Marie Roche - The Discarded Son
- Anne Louise Germaine de StaelAnne Louise Germaine de StaëlAnne Louise Germaine de Staël-Holstein , commonly known as Madame de Staël, was a French-speaking Swiss author living in Paris and abroad. She influenced literary tastes in Europe at the turn of the 19th century.- Childhood :...
-Corinne - Cathérine F. de St-Venant - Léopold de Circé
- Sarah Wilkinson
- The Castle SpectreThe Castle SpectreThe Castle Spectre is a 1797 dramatic romance in five acts by Matthew "Monk" Lewis. It is a Gothic drama set in medieval Conway, Wales.The Castle Spectre was first performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, on 14 December 1797...
- The Fugitive Countess
- The Castle Spectre
- Mary Julia Young - A Summer at Brighton
Poetry
- James HoggJames HoggJames Hogg was a Scottish poet and novelist who wrote in both Scots and English.-Early life:James Hogg was born in a small farm near Ettrick, Scotland in 1770 and was baptized there on 9 December, his actual date of birth having never been recorded...
- The Mountain Bard - William WordsworthWilliam WordsworthWilliam Wordsworth was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with the 1798 joint publication Lyrical Ballads....
- Poems in Two Volumes, including Ode on the Intimations of Immortality
Non-fiction
- Antoine Alexandre BarbierAntoine Alexandre BarbierAntoine Alexandre Barbier was a French librarian and bibliographer.He was born in Coulommiers . He took priest's orders, from which, however, he was finally released by the pope in 1801...
- Dictionnaire des ouvrages anonymes et pseudonymesDictionnaire des ouvrages anonymes et pseudonymesThe Dictionnaire des ouvrages anonymes et pseudonymes is a four volume dictionary by Antoine Alexandre Barbier listing pen names for French and Latin authors.... - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelGeorg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelGeorg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was a German philosopher, one of the creators of German Idealism. His historicist and idealist account of reality as a whole revolutionized European philosophy and was an important precursor to Continental philosophy and Marxism.Hegel developed a comprehensive...
-The Phenomenology of Spirit - Gottlieb HufelandGottlieb HufelandGottlieb Hufeland was a German economist and jurist.Born in Danzig , in the province of Royal Prussia, Hufeland was educated at the gymnasium of his native town, and completed his university studies at Leipzig and Göttingen. He graduated at Jena, and in 1788 was there appointed to an extraordinary...
- New Foundations of Political Economy - Alexander von HumboldtAlexander von HumboldtFriedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander Freiherr von Humboldt was a German naturalist and explorer, and the younger brother of the Prussian minister, philosopher and linguist Wilhelm von Humboldt...
- Voyage aux régions équinoxiales du nouveau continent 1799-1804 - Thomas PaineThomas PaineThomas "Tom" Paine was an English author, pamphleteer, radical, inventor, intellectual, revolutionary, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States...
- The Age of ReasonThe Age of ReasonThe Age of Reason; Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology is a deistic pamphlet, written by eighteenth-century British radical and American revolutionary Thomas Paine, that criticizes institutionalized religion and challenges the legitimacy of the Bible, the central sacred text of...
Births
- February 27 - Henry Wadsworth LongfellowHenry Wadsworth LongfellowHenry Wadsworth Longfellow was an American poet and educator whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride", The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline...
, poet (d. 1882) - June 30 - Friedrich Theodor VischerFriedrich Theodor VischerFriedrich Theodor Vischer was a German writer on the philosophy of art.Born at Ludwigsburg as the son of a clergyman, Vischer was educated at Tübinger Stift, and began life in his father's profession...
, German author (d. 1887) - September 9 - Richard Chenevix TrenchRichard Chenevix TrenchRichard Chenevix Trench was an Anglican archbishop and poet.-Life:He was born at Dublin, in Ireland, son of the Dublin writer Melesina Trench, his elder brother was Francis Chenevix Trench. He went to school at Harrow, and graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge in 1829. In 1830 he visited Spain...
, poet (d. 1886) - October 23 - Baroness TautphoeusBaroness TautphoeusBaroness Jemima von Tautphoeus was an English novelist who wrote several stories dealing with Bavarian life, manners and history of which the first, The Initials , is perhaps the best...
, novelist (d. 1893) - October 30 - Christopher WordsworthChristopher WordsworthChristopher Wordsworth was an English bishop and man of letters.-Life:Wordsworth was born in London, the youngest son of the Rev. Dr. Christopher Wordsworth, Master of Trinity and a nephew of the poet William Wordsworth...
, Biblical editor and commentator, nephew of William WordsworthWilliam WordsworthWilliam Wordsworth was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with the 1798 joint publication Lyrical Ballads....
(d. 1885) - November 16 - Jónas HallgrímssonJónas HallgrímssonJónas Hallgrímsson was an Icelandic poet, author and naturalist. He was one of the founders of the Icelandic journal Fjölnir, which was first published in Copenhagen in 1835...
, Icelandic author (d. 1845)
Deaths
- January 5 - Isaac ReedIsaac ReedIsaac Reed was an English Shakespearean editor.-Life:The son of a baker, he was born in London. He was articled to a solicitor, and eventually set up as a conveyancer at Staple Inn, where he had a large practice.-Works:...
, Shakespearean editor (b. 1742) - February 18 - Sophie von La RocheSophie von La RocheMaria Sophie von La Roche was a German novelist. She was born in Kaufbeuren and died in Offenbach am Main.-Biography:...
, novelist (b. 1730) - June 14 - Louis BruyasLouis BruyasLouis Bruyas , stage and pen-name Bruyas, was a French actor and playwright. He was a member of the prestigious Académie des Arcades de Rome.-Life:...
, dramatist and actor (b. 1738) - July 24 - John Christopher KunzeJohn Christopher KunzeJohn Christopher Kunze was an American Lutheran minister, educator, author and theologian.-Biography:John Christopher Kunze was born in Artern, a town in the Kyffhäuserkreis district of Prussian Saxony. In 1758, when his parents died, he began studying at the orphanage in Halle, Germany...
, theologian (b. 1744) - August 1 - John WalkerJohn Walker (lexicographer)John Walker was an English stage actor, philologist and lexicographer. Early in life he became an actor, his theatrical engagements including one with David Garrick at Drury Lane, and a long season in Dublin, Ireland. In 1768 he left the stage...
, lexicographer (b. 1732) - December 19 - Friedrich Melchior, baron von GrimmFriedrich Melchior, baron von GrimmFriedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm was a German-born French author.-Early years:Grimm was born at Regensburg, the son of a pastor...
, memoirist and literary correspondent (b. 1723) - December 21 - John NewtonJohn NewtonJohn Henry Newton was a British sailor and Anglican clergyman. Starting his career on the sea at a young age, he became involved with the slave trade for a few years. After experiencing a religious conversion, he became a minister, hymn-writer, and later a prominent supporter of the abolition of...
, songwriter ("Amazing Grace") (b. 1725)