1816 in literature
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The year 1816 in literature involved some significant new books.
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[edit] Events
- July - Lord Byron, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, Percy Bysshe Shelley and John Polidori, gathered at the Villa Diodati by Lake Geneva in a rainy Switzerland in this 'Year Without a Summer', tell each other tales. This gives rise to two classic Gothic narratives, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Polidori's The Vampyre.
- John Keats composes the poem, Sleep and Poetry, while staying at the house of his friend, Leigh Hunt.
[edit] New books
- Thomas Ashe - The Soldier of Fortune
- Benjamin Constant - Adolphe
- Selina Davenport - The Original of the Miniature
- Stéphanie Félicité, Comtesse de Genlis - Jane of France
- Jane Harvey - Brougham Castle
- Ann Hatton - Chronicles of an Illustrious House
- Barbara Hofland - The Maid of Moscow
- John Hoyland (writer) - English Quaker
- Leigh Hunt - The Story of Rimini
- Henry Gally Knight - Ilderim, a Syrian Tale
- Caroline Lamb - Glenarvon
- Agnes Lancaster - The Abbess of Valtiera
- José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi - The Mangy Parrot
- Emma Parker - Self-deception
- David W. Paynter - Godfrey Ranger
- Henrietta Roviere - Craig-Melrose Priory
- Sir Walter Scott
- Ann Sullivan - Owen Castle
- Sophia F.Ziegenhirt - The Orphan of Tintern Abbey
[edit] New drama
- Charles Maturin - Bertram; or The Castle of St. Aldobrand
[edit] Poetry
- Lord Byron - The Siege of Corinth
- Lord Byron - Prometheus
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Kubla Khan (written in 1797)
- Percy Bysshe Shelley - Alastor, or The Spirit of Solitude
- Percy Bysshe Shelley - Mont Blanc
[edit] Non-fiction
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Statesman's Manual
- Nikolai Karamzin - History of the Russian Empire
[edit] Births
- April 21 - Charlotte Brontë, novelist and poet (died 1855)
- June - Grace Aguilar, novelist (died 1847)
- September 20 - Fredrik August Dahlgren, dramatist and songwriter (died 1895)
- November 1 - Friedrich Wilhelm Hackländer, novelist, dramatist and travel writer (died 1877)
[edit] Deaths
- February 22 - Adam Ferguson, philosopher
- July 7 - Richard Brinsley Sheridan, playwright and politician (born 1751)
