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 Kleist
    Heinrich von Kleist
    Bernd 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 & Sons
    John Wiley & Sons
    John 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 Irving
    Washington Irving
    Washington 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 Butler
    Harriet Butler
    Harriet 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 Dacre
    Charlotte Dacre
    Charlotte 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 Hunter
    Rachel 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 Ireland
    William Henry Ireland
    William 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 Lamb
    Mary Lamb
    Mary 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 Shakespeare
    Tales from Shakespeare
    Tales 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 Lewis
    Matthew Gregory Lewis
    Matthew 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 Maturin
    Charles Maturin
    Charles 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 Meeke
    Mary Meeke
    Mary 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 Pilkington
    Mary Pilkington
    Mary 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 Porter
    Anna Maria Porter
    Anna 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 Stael
    Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
    Anne 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 Spectre
      The Castle Spectre
      The 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
  • Mary Julia Young - A Summer at Brighton

Poetry

  • James Hogg
    James Hogg
    James 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 Wordsworth
    William Wordsworth
    William 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 Barbier
    Antoine Alexandre Barbier
    Antoine 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 pseudonymes
    Dictionnaire des ouvrages anonymes et pseudonymes
    The 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 Hegel
    Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
    Georg 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 Hufeland
    Gottlieb Hufeland
    Gottlieb 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 Humboldt
    Alexander von Humboldt
    Friedrich 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 Paine
    Thomas Paine
    Thomas "Tom" Paine was an English author, pamphleteer, radical, inventor, intellectual, revolutionary, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States...

     - The Age of Reason
    The Age of Reason
    The 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 Longfellow
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    Henry 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 Vischer
    Friedrich Theodor Vischer
    Friedrich 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 Trench
    Richard Chenevix Trench
    Richard 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 Tautphoeus
    Baroness Tautphoeus
    Baroness 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 Wordsworth
    Christopher Wordsworth
    Christopher 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 Wordsworth
    William Wordsworth
    William 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 Hallgrímsson
    Jónas Hallgrímsson
    Jónas 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 Reed
    Isaac Reed
    Isaac 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 Roche
    Sophie von La Roche
    Maria 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 Bruyas
    Louis Bruyas
    Louis 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 Kunze
    John Christopher Kunze
    John 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 Walker
    John 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 Grimm
    Friedrich Melchior, baron von Grimm
    Friedrich 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 Newton
    John Newton
    John 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)
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