1814 in literature
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The year 1814 in literature involved some significant events.
Events
- In EnglandEnglandEngland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
, a revolutionary steam-powered press prints the TimesThe TimesThe Times is a British daily national newspaper, first published in London in 1785 under the title The Daily Universal Register . The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times are published by Times Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary since 1981 of News International...
newspaper at a rate of 1100 copies per hour.
New books
- 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...
— Mansfield ParkMansfield Park (novel)Mansfield Park is a novel by Jane Austen, written at Chawton Cottage between 1812 and 1814. It was published in July 1814 by Thomas Egerton, who published Jane Austen's two earlier novels, Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice... - Fanny BurneyFanny BurneyFrances Burney , also known as Fanny Burney and, after her marriage, as Madame d’Arblay, was an English novelist, diarist and playwright. She was born in Lynn Regis, now King’s Lynn, England, on 13 June 1752, to musical historian Dr Charles Burney and Mrs Esther Sleepe Burney...
— The Wanderer - Mary BruntonMary BruntonMary Brunton was a Scottish novelist.-Life:Mary was the daughter of Colonel Thomas Balfour of Elwick, a British Army officer and Frances Ligonier, daughter of Colonel Francis Ligonier and sister of the second earl of Ligonier. She was born on 1 November 1778 on Burray in the Orkney Islands...
- — Discipline - Lord Byron - The CorsairThe CorsairThe Corsair was a semi-autobiographical tale in verse by Lord Byron in 1814 , which was extremely popular and influential in its day, selling ten thousand copies on its first day of sale...
- Selina DavenportSelina DavenportSelina Davenport was an English author of the Romantic period. She wrote 11 novels and was married to Richard Alfred Davenport.-Early life:...
— The Hypocrite - 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...
— PatronagePatronage (novel)Patronage is a four volume fictional work by Anglo-Irish writer Maria Edgeworth and published in 1814. It is one of her later books, after such successes as Castle Rackrent , Belinda , Leonora and The Absentee in 1812, to name a few. The novel is a long and ambitious one which she began... - Pierce EganPierce EganPierce Egan was an early British journalist, sportswriter, and writer on popular culture.Egan was born in the London suburbs, where he spent his life. By 1812 he had established himself as the country's leading 'reporter of sporting events', which at the time meant mainly prize-fights and...
— The Mistress of Royalty - Jane Harvey
- Auberry Stanhope
- Ethelia: a Tale
- Ann HattonAnn HattonAnn Julia Hatton , was a popular novelist in Britain in the early 19th century.-Biography:...
— Conviction - Laetitia Matilda HawkinsLaetitia Matilda HawkinsLaetitia Matilda Hawkins was an English novelist, associated with Twickenham. She is also a character in Beryl Bainbridge's novel According to Queeney....
- Rossane; or A father’s labour lost - William Henry HitchenerWilliam Henry HitchenerWilliam Henry Hitchener is an author.He had two book] published in 1813, St. Leonard’s Forest Vol 1.2 and The Tower of Ravenwold, Vol 1.2 . Both books are travel books....
— The Towers of Ravenswold - Barbara HoflandBarbara HoflandBarbara Hofland was an English writer of some 66 didactic, moral stories for children, and of schoolbooks and poetry.-Life:...
— Emily and Her Friends - 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....
- the Saxon and the Gaël - 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....
— Conscience - Lady MorganLady MorganSydney, Lady Morgan , was an Irish novelist, best known as the author of The Wild Irish Girl.-Early life:...
— O'Donnell - 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 Recluse of Norway - Regina Marie Roche— Trecothick Bower
- Honoria Scott — The Castle of Strathmay
- Sir Walter Scott — WaverleyWaverley (novel)Waverley is an 1814 historical novel by Sir Walter Scott. Initially published anonymously in 1814 as Scott's first venture into prose fiction, Waverley is often regarded as the first historical novel. It became so popular that Scott's later novels were advertised as being "by the author of...
- Mary Martha SherwoodMary Martha SherwoodMary Martha Sherwood was a prolific and influential writer of children's literature in 19th-century Britain...
— The History of Little Henry and his BearerThe History of Little Henry and his BearerThe History of Little Henry and his Bearer was a popular children's book written by Mary Martha Sherwood. It was continuously in print for 70 years after its initial publication and was translated into French, German, Spanish, Hindustani , Chinese, Marathi , Tamil , and Sinhalese... - Louisa StanhopeLouisa StanhopeLouisa Sidney Stanhope was an English novelist of the early 19th century. She wrote mainly historical and Gothic romances.-Novels:*Montbrasil Abbey: or, Maternal Trials...
— Madelina: A Tale Founded on Facts - 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 Prison-House - Jane WestJane WestJane West [née Iliffe] , who published as "Prudentia Homespun" and "Mrs. West," was an English novelist, poet, playwright, and writer of conduct literature and educational tracts.- Life :...
— Alicia de Lacy
Non-fiction
- Thomas Hartwell HorneThomas Hartwell HorneThomas Hartwell Horne , was a theologian, and librarian. He was born in London and educated at Christ's Hospital. He then became a clerk to a barrister, and used his spare time to write. He was initially affiliated with the Wesleyans but later joined the Church of England.Horne wrote more than...
- Introduction to the Study of Bibliography - 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...
- A Refutation of Deism - Elizabeth Wallbridge - The Dairyman's DaughterThe Dairyman's DaughterThe Dairyman's Daughter is an early 19th century Christian religious booklet of 52 pages, which had a remarkably wide distribution and influence. It was a narrative of the religious experience of Elizabeth Wallbridge, who was the person after whom the book was named.-Elizabeth Wallbridge:Elizabeth...
Births
- June 8 - Charles ReadeCharles ReadeCharles Reade was an English novelist and dramatist, best known for The Cloister and the Hearth.-Life:Charles Reade was born at Ipsden, Oxfordshire to John Reade and Anne Marie Scott-Waring; William Winwood Reade the influential historian , was his nephew. He studied at Magdalen College, Oxford,...
, English writer (d. 1884) - August 28 - Sheridan le FanuSheridan Le FanuJoseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu was an Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels. He was the leading ghost-story writer of the nineteenth century and was central to the development of the genre in the Victorian era....
, Irish writer (d. 1873) - October 3 - Mikhail LermontovMikhail LermontovMikhail Yuryevich Lermontov , a Russian Romantic writer, poet and painter, sometimes called "the poet of the Caucasus", became the most important Russian poet after Alexander Pushkin's death in 1837. Lermontov is considered the supreme poet of Russian literature alongside Pushkin and the greatest...
, Russian poet (d. 1841) - November 6 - William Wells BrownWilliam Wells BrownWilliam Wells Brown was a prominent African-American abolitionist lecturer, novelist, playwright, and historian. Born into slavery in the Southern United States, Brown escaped to the North in 1834, where he worked for abolitionist causes and was a prolific writer...
African-American writer (d. 1884) - December 27 - Jules SimonJules SimonJules François Simon was a French statesman and philosopher, and one of the leader of the Opportunist Republicans faction.-Biography:Simon was born at Lorient. His father was a linen-draper from Lorraine, who renounced Protestantism before his second marriage with a Catholic Breton. Jules Simon...
, French philosopher (d. 1896)
Deaths
- January 4 - Johann Georg JacobiJohann Georg JacobiJohann Georg Jacobi was a German poet.The elder brother of the philosopher Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, Johann Georg was born at Pempelfort near Düsseldorf. He studied theology at Göttingen and jurisprudence at Helmstedt, and was appointed, in 1766, professor of philosophy in Halle. In this year he...
, poet (b. 1740) - January 27 - Johann Gottlieb FichteJohann Gottlieb FichteJohann Gottlieb Fichte was a German philosopher. He was one of the founding figures of the philosophical movement known as German idealism, a movement that developed from the theoretical and ethical writings of Immanuel Kant...
, philosopher (b. 1762) - February 24 - Julien Louis GeoffroyJulien Louis GeoffroyJulien Louis Geoffroy was a French literary critic.He was born at Rennes, and educated there and at the Collège Louis le Grand in Paris. He took orders and for some time was a mere usher, eventually becoming professor of rhetoric at the Collège des Quatre-Nations. His tragedy, Caton, was accepted...
, French literary critic (b. 1743) - July 25 - Charles DibdinCharles DibdinCharles Dibdin was a British musician, dramatist, novelist, actor and songwriter. The son of a parish clerk, he was born in Southampton on or before 4 March 1745, and was the youngest of a family of 18....
, novelist, dramatist and actor (b. 1745) - September 5 - Gottfried Gabriel BredowGottfried Gabriel BredowGottfried Gabriel Bredow was a German historian.He was born at Berlin, and became successively professor at the universities of Helmstedt, Frankfurt an der Oder and Breslau. He died at Breslau....
, historian (b. 1773) - November 10 - Abbé AubertAbbé AubertJean-Louis Aubert , called the Abbé Aubert, was a French dramatist, poet and journalist, son of the violinist and composer Jacques Aubert . Aubert was educated at the Collège de Navarre and entered the order. In 1741, Aubert entered the editorial staff of the , where he was literary critic...
, dramatist, poet and journalist (b. 1731) - December 2 - Marquis de SadeMarquis de SadeDonatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade was a French aristocrat, revolutionary politician, philosopher, and writer famous for his libertine sexuality and lifestyle...
, pornographic author (b. 1740)