1800 in literature
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The year 1800 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
Events
- The United StatesUnited StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
creates the Library of CongressLibrary of CongressThe Library of Congress is the research library of the United States Congress, de facto national library of the United States, and the oldest federal cultural institution in the United States. Located in three buildings in Washington, D.C., it is the largest library in the world by shelf space and...
. - January 10 – The Serampore Mission and Press is established in SeramporeSeramporeSerampore is a city and a municipality in Hooghly district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is a part of the area covered by Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority. It is a pre-colonial town on the right bank of the Hoogli River...
(now part of West BengalWest BengalWest Bengal is a state in the eastern region of India and is the nation's fourth-most populous. It is also the seventh-most populous sub-national entity in the world, with over 91 million inhabitants. A major agricultural producer, West Bengal is the sixth-largest contributor to India's GDP...
) India by Baptist missionaries Joshua Marshman and William WardWilliam Ward (missionary)William Ward was an English pioneer Baptist missionary, author, printer and translator. On 10 May 1802 he was married at Serampore to the widow of John Fountain, another missionary, by whom he left two daughters.-Early life:...
. The press would grow into the largest in Asia, printing books in nearly every Indian language.
New books
- Helen Craik - The Hermit's Cell
- Maria EdgeworthMaria EdgeworthMaria Edgeworth was a prolific Anglo-Irish writer of adults' and children's literature. She was one of the first realist writers in children's literature and was a significant figure in the evolution of the novel in Europe...
- Castle RackrentCastle RackrentCastle Rackrent, a short novel by Maria Edgeworth published in 1800, is often regarded as the first historical novel, the first regional novel in English, the first Anglo-Irish novel, the first Big House novel and the first saga novel.... - Jane Elson - The Romance of the Castle
- Stéphanie Félicité, Comtesse de GenlisStéphanie Félicité Ducrest de St-Albin, comtesse de GenlisMadame de Genlis, full name Stéphanie Félicité Ducrest de St-Aubin, comtesse de Genlis, or Madame Brûlart, was a French writer, harpist and educator.-Biography:...
- The Rival Mothers - Catherine Harris - Edwardina
- 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...
- Gondez the Monk
- Rimualdo
- Francis LathomFrancis LathomFrancis Lathom was a British gothic novelist and playwright.-Biography:Francis Lathom was born on the 14 July of 1774, either in Rotterdam, Holland, where his father, Henry, conducted business for the East India Company and returning to England around 1777, settling near Norwich, or he was born in...
– Mystery - William LinleyWilliam LinleyWilliam Linley was one of 7 musical siblings born to Thomas Linley the elder and his wife Mary Johnson.He joined the British East India Company and was in India 1790-5 and 1800-5, holding a writership at their College in Madras. He retired from the company in 1810 and devoted himself to singing,...
- Forbidden Apartments - 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....
- Anecdotes of the Altamont Family - Eliza ParsonsEliza ParsonsEliza Parsons was an English gothic novelist. Her most famous novels in this genre are The Castle of Wolfenbach and The Mysterious Warning - two of the seven gothic titles recommended as reading by a character in Jane Austen's novel Northanger Abbey.-Life:Many different speculations have been...
– The Miser and his Family - Regina Marie Roche
- The Nocturnal Visit
- The Vicar of Lansdowne
- Catherine SeldenCatherine SeldenCatherine Selden was a Gothic novelist of the early 19th century.She wrote seven novels. Her first was The English Nun , written in imitation of Diderot...
- Serena - Horatio Smith – A Family Story
- Henry Summersett - Final Retribution
- William Frederick Williams - Fitz-Maurice
Non-fiction
- Elizabeth HamiltonElizabeth HamiltonElizabeth Hamilton was a British essayist, poet, satirist and novelist. Born in Belfast to Charles Hamilton , a Scottish merchant, and his wife Katherine Mackay , she lived most of her life in Scotland, dying in Harrogate in England after a short illness.Her first literary efforts were directed in...
- Memoirs of Modern PhilosophersMemoirs of Modern PhilosophersMemoirs of Modern Philosophers is a novel by British author Elizabeth Hamilton published in 1800. Responding to the Revolution Controversy of the 1790s and the debates about what roles women should occupy in English society, the novel contends that a poor education limits women's opportunities... - Arnold Hermann Ludwig HeerenArnold Hermann Ludwig HeerenArnold Hermann Ludwig Heeren was a German historian.He was born at Arbergen, near Bremen. He studied philosophy, theology and history at the University of Göttingen, and then travelled in France, Italy and the Netherlands...
- Geschichte des europäischen Staatensystems - Immanuel KantImmanuel KantImmanuel Kant was a German philosopher from Königsberg , researching, lecturing and writing on philosophy and anthropology at the end of the 18th Century Enlightenment....
- Logik - Friedrich Schelling - System des transcendentalen Idealismus
- Parson WeemsParson WeemsMason Locke Weems , generally known as Parson Weems, was an American book agent and author. He is best known as the source of some of the apocryphal stories about George Washington...
- The Life of Washington
Births
- January 6 - Anna Maria HallAnna Maria HallAnna Maria Hall was an Irish novelist who often published as "Mrs. S.C. Hall".She was born Anna Maria Fielding in Dublin, but left Ireland at the age of 15...
, novelist - March 25 - Alexis Paulin ParisAlexis Paulin ParisAlexis Paulin Paris , was a French scholar and author.He was born at Avenay . He studied classics in Reims and law in Paris. He published in 1824 an Apologie pour l'école romantique and took an active part in Parisian journalism...
, editor of medieval French manuscripts - May 5 - Louis Christophe François HachetteLouis Christophe François HachetteLouis Christophe François Hachette was a French publisher.He was born at Rethel in the Ardennes département of France. After studying three years at prestigious École Normale Supérieure with the view of becoming a teacher, he was in 1822 on political grounds expelled from the seminary...
, publisher - October 18 - Sir Henry TaylorHenry Taylor (dramatist)Sir Henry Taylor was an English dramatist.Taylor was born in Bishop Middleham, the son of a gentleman farmer, and spent his youth in Witton-le-Wear with his stepmother at Witton Hall in the high street...
, dramatist - October 25 - Thomas Macaulay, poet
- November 27 - Fanny Kemble
- Date unknown - Wanda MaleckaWanda MaleckaWanda Malecka was a Polish editor, translator, poet, novelist, printer, publisher and journalist. She was the first female in Poland to publish a newspaper....
, Polish writer
- Date unknown - Wanda Malecka
Deaths
- January 22 - George SteevensGeorge SteevensGeorge Steevens was an English Shakespearean commentator.He was born at Poplar, the son of a captain and later director of the East India Company. He was educated at Eton College and at King's College, Cambridge, where he remained from 1753 to 1756...
, Shakespearean commentator - February 22 - Joseph WartonJoseph WartonJoseph Warton was an English academic and literary critic.He was born in Dunsfold, Surrey, England, but his family soon moved to Hampshire, where his father, the Reverend Thomas Warton, became vicar of Basingstoke. There, a few years later, Joseph's younger brother, the more famous Thomas Warton,...
- March 14 - Daines BarringtonDaines BarringtonDaines Barrington, FRS was an English lawyer, antiquary and naturalist.Barrington was the fourth son of the first Viscount Barrington. He was educated for the profession of the law, and after filling various posts, was appointed a Welsh judge in 1757 and afterwards second justice of Chester...
- March 29 - Marc René, marquis de MontalembertMarc René, marquis de MontalembertMarc René, marquis de Montalembert was a French military engineer and writer, known for his work on fortifications.-Life:...
- April 25 - William CowperWilliam CowperWilliam Cowper was an English poet and hymnodist. One of the most popular poets of his time, Cowper changed the direction of 18th century nature poetry by writing of everyday life and scenes of the English countryside. In many ways, he was one of the forerunners of Romantic poetry...
, poet