1811 in literature
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The year 1811 in literature involved some significant new books, including Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility.
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[edit] Events
- Sir Walter Scott buys Abbotsford House.
[edit] New books
- Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility
- Amelia Beauclerc - Eva of Cambria
- Mary Brunton - Self-Control
- Augustus Jacob Crandolph - The Mysterious Hand
- Charlotte Dacre - The Passions
- Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué - Undine
- Rachel Hunter -The Schoolmistress
- Heinrich von Kleist - Michael Kohlhaas
- Mary Meeke - Stratagems Defeated
- Lady Morgan - The Missionary: An Indian Tale
- Emma Parker - Elfrida, Heiress of Belgrove
- Percy Bysshe Shelley - St. Irvyne; or, The Rosicrucian
- Catherine Smith
- Elizabeth Thomas - Mortimer Hall
- Sarah Wigley - Glencarron: a Scottish Tale
- Sophia F Ziegenhirt - Seabrook Village and Its Inhabitants
[edit] New drama
- Sarah Isdell - The Poor Gentlewoman
[edit] Poetry
[edit] Non-fiction
- K. A. Böttiger - Kunstmythologie
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Aus meinem Leben: Dichtung und Wahrheit
- Barthold G. Niebuhr - Roman History
- John Roberton - On Diseases of the Generative System
- Percy Bysshe Shelley - The Necessity of Atheism
[edit] Births
- January 9 - Gilbert Abbott à Beckett (+ 1856)
- February 1 - Arthur Henry Hallam, poet (+ 1833)
- February 19 - Jules Sandeau, French dramatist and novelist
- June 14 - Harriet Beecher Stowe, novelist
- July 18 - William Makepeace Thackeray (+ 1863)
- August 31 - Théophile Gautier, poet, novelist (+ 1872)
- September 17 - August Blanche, Swedish writer, statesman (d. 1868)
[edit] Deaths
- January 10 - Joseph Chénier, poet and dramatist, brother of André Chénier
- May 7 - Richard Cumberland (dramatist)
- September 14 - James Grahame, poet
- September 30 - Bishop Thomas Percy, collector of Percy's Reliques
- November 21 - Heinrich von Kleist, poet
