1815 in literature
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The year 1815 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
Events
- The Brothers GrimmBrothers GrimmThe Brothers Grimm , Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm , were German academics, linguists, cultural researchers, and authors who collected folklore and published several collections of it as Grimm's Fairy Tales, which became very popular...
complete the writing of Grimms' Fairy Tales. - First publication of the North American ReviewNorth American ReviewThe North American Review was the first literary magazine in the United States. Founded in Boston in 1815 by journalist Nathan Hale and others, it was published continuously until 1940, when publication was suspended due to J. H. Smyth, who had purchased the magazine, being unmasked as a Japanese...
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New books
- John Agg - A Month at Brussels
- Jane AustenJane AustenJane Austen was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction, set among the landed gentry, earned her a place as one of the most widely read writers in English literature, her realism and biting social commentary cementing her historical importance among scholars and critics.Austen lived...
- EmmaEmmaEmma, by Jane Austen, is a novel about the perils of misconstrued romance. The novel was first published in December 1815. As in her other novels, Austen explores the concerns and difficulties of genteel women living in Georgian-Regency England; she also creates a lively 'comedy of manners' among... - Sarah Green - The Fugitive
- Elizabeth Gunning - The Victims of Seduction
- Ann HattonAnn HattonAnn Julia Hatton , was a popular novelist in Britain in the early 19th century.-Biography:...
- Secret Avengers - Mary HaysMary HaysMary Hays was an English novelist and feminist.- Early years :Mary Hays was born in Southwark, London on Oct. 13, 1759. Almost nothing is known of her first 17 years. In 1779 she fell in love with John Eccles who lived on Gainsford Street, where she also lived. Their parents opposed the match but...
- The Brothers, or Consequences - E. T. A. Hoffmann - The Devil's Elixir
- Barbara HoflandBarbara HoflandBarbara Hofland was an English writer of some 66 didactic, moral stories for children, and of schoolbooks and poetry.-Life:...
- A Father as He Should Be - Christian Isobel JohnstoneChristian Isobel JohnstoneChristian Isobel Johnstone was a prolific journalist and author in Scotland in the nineteenth century. She was a significant early feminist and an advocate of other liberal causes in her era....
- Clan-Albin: A National Tale - 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....
- The Spanish Campaign - 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...
- The Unfortunate Choice - Jane PorterJane PorterJane Porter was a Scottish historical novelist and dramatist.-Life and work:Jane Porter was an avid reader. Said to rise at four in the morning in order to read and write, she read the whole of Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene while still a child...
- The Pastor's Fireside - Regina Marie Roche - Edinburg; a Novel
- Sir Walter Scott - Guy ManneringGuy ManneringGuy Mannering or The Astrologer is a novel by Sir Walter Scott, published anonymously in 1815. According to an introduction that Scott wrote in 1829, he had originally intended to write a story of the supernatural, but changed his mind soon after starting...
- Catherine Smith - Barozzi or the Venetian Sorceress: A Romance of the Sixteenth Century
- Elizabeth ThomasElizabeth ThomasElizabeth Thomas may refer to:*Elizabeth Thomas , British poet*Elizabeth Thomas , British novelist and poet*Elizabeth Thomas , American Egyptologist*Betty Thomas, American actress...
- The Baron of Falconberg
New drama
- Barbarina BrandBarbarina BrandBrand , Barbarina, Lady Dacre was an English poet, playwright, and translator.Barbarina was the daughter of Admiral Sir Chaloner Ogle, 1st Baronet , and Hester . In 1789 she married Valentine Henry Wilmot, an officer in the guards, though they later separated. The couple had one daughter, Arabella...
- Ina, a tragedy in five acts - J. S. Knowles - Caius Gracchus
- Jane Scott -The Gipsy Girl
Poetry
- Pierre-Jean de BérangerPierre-Jean de BérangerPierre-Jean de Béranger was a prolific French poet and chansonnier , who enjoyed great popularity and influence in France during his lifetime, but faded into obscurity in the decades following his death...
- Chansons I - Percy Bysshe ShelleyPercy Bysshe ShelleyPercy Bysshe Shelley was one of the major English Romantic poets and is critically regarded as among the finest lyric poets in the English language. Shelley was famous for his association with John Keats and Lord Byron...
- Alastor, or The Spirit of SolitudeAlastor, or The Spirit of SolitudeAlastor, or The Spirit of Solitude is a poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley, written from September 10 to December 14 in 1815 in Bishopsgate, London and first published in 1816. The poem was without a title when Shelley passed it along to his contemporary and friend, Thomas Love Peacock. The poem is 720... - 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....
- White Doe of Rhylstone
Non-fiction
- Simón BolívarSimón BolívarSimón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar y Palacios Ponte y Yeiter, commonly known as Simón Bolívar was a Venezuelan military and political leader...
- Letter to Jamaica (September 6) - George Cavendish -The Life and Death of Cardinal WolseyThe Life and Death of Cardinal WolseyThe Life and Death of Cardinal Wolsey is an 1815 book by George Cavendish about Cardinal Thomas Wolsey....
- Les Jeux des Jeunes GarçonsLes Jeux des Jeunes GarçonsLes Jeux des Jeunes Garçons is the first book known to have rules relating to a game similar to baseball. It was published in 1815....
- Thomas MalthusThomas MalthusThe Reverend Thomas Robert Malthus FRS was an English scholar, influential in political economy and demography. Malthus popularized the economic theory of rent....
- An Inquiry into the Nature and Progress of Rent
Births
- April 24 - Anthony TrollopeAnthony TrollopeAnthony Trollope was one of the most successful, prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian era. Some of his best-loved works, collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, revolve around the imaginary county of Barsetshire...
, novelist (d. 1882) - May 5 - Eugène Marin LabicheEugène Marin LabicheEugène Marin Labiche was a French dramatist.-Biography:He was born into a bourgeois family and studied law. At the age of twenty, he contributed a short story to Chérubin magazine, entitled Les plus belles sont les plus fausses. A few others followed , but failed to catch the attention of the...
, dramatist (d. 1888) - October 4 - Franz Jakob ClemensFranz Jakob ClemensFranz Jacob Clemens was a German Catholic philosopher, a layman who defended the Catholic Church even on theological questions.-Life:Clemens was born in Koblenz...
, philosopher (d. 1862) - November 17 - Eliza FarnhamEliza FarnhamEliza Farnham was a 19th-century American novelist, feminist, abolitionist, and activist for prison reform. Her fame as a writer rests upon her work Life in Prairie Land , an account of life on the Illinois prairie near Pekin between 1836 and 1840. She strongly believed in the use of phrenology...
, novelist and reformer (d. 1864) - date unknown - Martins PenaMartins PenaLuís Carlos Martins Pena was a Brazilian playwright, famous for introducing to Brazil the "comedy of customs", winning the epithet of "the Brazilian Molière"....
, Brazilian dramatist (d. 1848)
Deaths
- January 21 - Matthias ClaudiusMatthias ClaudiusMatthias Claudius was a German poet, otherwise known by the penname of “Asmus”.-Life:Claudius was born at Reinfeld, near Lübeck, and studied at Jena...
, poet (b. 1740) - January 30 - Hans Christian AmbergHans Christian Amberg (lexicographer)Hans Christian Amberg, sometimes H. C. Amberg was a Danish lexicographer.He was born in Elsinore as a son of goldsmith Lars Amberg, a Norwegian immigrant to Denmark. He was a brother of educator Herman Amberg. He is known for his three-volume dictionary in German-Danish and Danish-German...
, lexicographer (b. 1749) - November 2 - Gottlieb Christoph HarlessGottlieb Christoph HarlessGottlieb Christoph Harless was a German classical scholar and bibliographer.-Biography:He was born at Culmbach in Bavaria. He studied at the universities of Halle, Erlangen and Jena...
, bibliographer (b. 1738) - November 11 - Pierre-Louis GinguenéPierre-Louis GinguenéPierre-Louis Ginguené was a French author.-Biography:He was born at Rennes, in Brittany, and educated at a Jesuit college there. He came to Paris in 1772, and wrote criticisms for the Mercure de France. He also composed a comic opera, Pomponin . The Satire des satires and the Confession de...
, writer and critic (b. 1748) - November 17 - Dorothea ViehmannDorothea ViehmannDorothea Viehmann was born in Rengershausen. She was a farmer and storyteller and one of the most important sources of the fairy tale collection of the Brothers Grimm...
, fairy-tale writer (b. 1755) - December - Jan PotockiJan PotockiCount Jan Nepomucen Potocki was a Polish nobleman, Polish Army Captain of Engineers, ethnologist, Egyptologist, linguist, traveler, adventurer and popular author of the Enlightenment period, whose life and exploits made him a legendary figure in his homeland...
, polymath (b. 1761) - December 20 - Giovanni MeliGiovanni MeliGiovanni Meli was a Palermitan Sicilian poet and man of letters. After studying philosophy and medicine he worked as a doctor in Cinisi in the province of Palermo...
, Sicilian poet (b. 1740)