1812 in literature
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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1812.
Events
- January 2 – Samuel Taylor Coleridge's lecture on Hamlet is given as part of a series of lectures on drama and Shakespeare; it has influenced Hamlet studies ever since.
- January 15 – Lord Byron takes his seat in the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
- March 20 – First two cantos of Byron's poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage are published in London by John Murray.[1] They sell out in five days, causing Byron to comment: "I awoke one morning and found myself famous."[2]
- May–July – The library of the Duke of Roxburghe (died 1804) is auctioned in London. On June 17 a presumed first edition of Boccaccio's Decameron, printed by Christopher Valdarfer of Venice in 1471, is sold to the Marquis of Blandford for £2,260, the highest price ever paid for a book at the time. This is followed by a social meeting of bibliophiles chaired by 2nd Earl Spencer, the origin of the Roxburghe Club, formed by Thomas Frognall Dibdin.
- June 24 – December 14 – The French invasion of Russia will form the climax of Tolstoy's 1869 novel War and Peace and feature in several other works of literature.
- August 13 – The English novelist Sarah Burney sets sail from Dunkirk on an American ship bound for England.[3]
- October 10 – The rebuilt Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in London opens.
- December 9–20 – Leigh Hunt is tried and convicted of libel for calling the Prince Regent "a violator of his word, a libertine over head and ears in debt and disgrace" in The Examiner on March 22.[4]
- December 26 – The novelist Frederick Marryat becomes a lieutenant after distinguished service at sea in the War of 1812.[5]
New books
Fiction
- Sarah Burney – Traits of Nature[6]
- Maria Edgeworth:[7]
- The Absentee
- Emilie de Coulanges
- Vivian
- Jean-Baptiste Benoît Eyriès – Fantasmagoriana
- The Brothers Grimm – Grimm's Fairy Tales, volume 1 (Kinder- und Hausmärchen)
- Ann Hatton – The Fortress del Vechii[8]
- Frances Margaretta Jacson (misascribed to Mary Brunton) – Things by their Right Names
- Charles Maturin – The Milesian Chief
- Rebecca Rush – Kelroy[9]
- George Soane – The Eve of San Marco
- Louisa Stanhope – The Confessional of Valombre
- Elizabeth Thomas – The Vindictive Spirit
- Jane West – The Loyalists: An Historical Novel
Children and young people
- Johann David Wyss – The Swiss Family Robinson
- Barbara Hofland – The History of a Clergyman's Widow and Her Young Family[10]
Drama
- Joanna Baillie – Orra
- Theodor Körner
- Adam Oehlenschläger – Stærkodder
- August von Kotzebue – Der arme Poet (The Poor Poet)
Poetry
- Anna Laetitia Barbauld – Eighteen Hundred and Eleven
- Lord Byron – Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
- Percy Bysshe Shelley – The Devil's Walk: A Ballad
- James and Horace Smith (anonymously) – Rejected Addresses
- William Tennant – Anster Fair
Non-fiction
- John Galt – Cursory Reflections on Political and Commercial Topics
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel – Die objektive Logik[12]
- Sir Richard Colt Hoare – The Ancient History of South Wiltshire
- Mirza Abu Taleb Khan – Masir Talib fi Bilad Afranji (The Travels of Taleb in the Regions of Europe)
- James Maitland, 8th Earl of Lauderdale – The Depreciation of the Paper-currency of Great Britain Proved
- John Nichols – The Literary Anecdotes of the 18th Century, volume 1
- Percy Bysshe Shelley – Declaration of Rights
Births
- February 7 – Charles Dickens, English novelist and editor (died 1870)
- February 15 – Chandos Wren-Hoskyns (Chandos Hoskyns), English agricultural author and landowner (died 1876)
- February 19 – Zygmunt Krasiński, Polish poet (died 1859)
- May 7 – Robert Browning, English poet (died 1889)
- May 12 – Edward Lear, English humorous poet and caricaturist (died 1888)
- June 9 – Camilla Dufour Crosland, English writer and poet (died 1895)
- June 18 – Ivan Goncharov, Russian novelist and critic (died 1891)
- June 27 – Andrei Mocioni, Hungarian/Romanian journalist and literary patron (died 1880)
- July 5 – Antonio García Gutiérrez, Spanish dramatist (died 1884)
- August 22 – Geraldine Jewsbury, English novelist and woman of letters (died 1880)
- October 29 – Louise Granberg, Swedish playwright (died 1907)[13]
- December 23 – Samuel Smiles, Scottish self-help author (died 1904)
Deaths
- February 13 – Jacques Marie Boutet, French dramatist and actor (born 1745)
- February 24 – Hugo Kołłątaj, Polish historian and philosopher (born 1750)
- March 18 – John Horne Tooke, English controversialist and cleric (born 1736)
- March 24 – Johann Jakob Griesbach, German Biblical commentator (born 1745)
- May 12 – Martha Ballard, American diarist (born c. 1734)
- July 14 – Christian Gottlob Heyne, German librarian and classicist (born 1729)
- October 28 – Susanna Duncombe, English poet and painter (born 1725)
- November 11 – Platon Levshin, Russian church historian (born 1737)
- November 16 – John Walter, English founder of The Times, London (born c. 1738)
- December 22 – Pierre Henri Larcher, French classicist and archeologist (born 1726)
Uncertain date
- Zalkind Hourwitz, Polish essayist (born 1738)
References
- ^ Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 240–241. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
- ^ Spengler-Axiopoulos, Barbara (2006-07-01), Der skeptische Kosmopolit (in German), NZZ, archived from the original on 2012-03-18, retrieved 2013-04-11
- ^ Sarah Harriet Burney (1997). The Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney. University of Georgia Press. p. 162. ISBN 978-0-8203-1746-5.
- ^ Roe, Nicholas (2004). "Hunt, (James Henry) Leigh (1784–1859)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/14195. Retrieved 2013-12-02. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
- ^ Florence Marryat (1872). Life and Letters of Captain Marryat. D. Appleton. pp. 73.
- ^ Sarah Harriet Burney (1997). The Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney. University of Georgia Press. p. 159. ISBN 978-0-8203-1746-5.
- ^ Maria Edgeworth (18 November 2013). Delphi Complete Novels of Maria Edgeworth (Illustrated). Delphi Classics. p. 5697. GGKEY:5Y2D7748AQ4.
- ^ Diane Long Hoeveler (15 May 2014). The Gothic Ideology: Religious Hysteria and Anti-Catholicism in British Popular Fiction, 1780-1880. University of Wales Press. p. 330. ISBN 978-1-78316-049-5.
- ^ Gregg Crane (25 October 2007). The Cambridge Introduction to The Nineteenth-Century American Novel. Cambridge University Press. p. 17. ISBN 978-1-139-46565-6.
- ^ Peter Garside; Patrick Parrinder; Karen O'Brien (5 April 2015). The Oxford History of the Novel in English. Oxford University Press. p. 263. ISBN 978-0-19-957480-3.
- ^ Marcel Cornis-Pope; John Neubauer (1 January 2004). History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe: Junctures and Disjunctures in the 19th and 20th Centuries. John Benjamins Publishing. p. 519. ISBN 90-272-3452-3.
- ^ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1812). Gesammelte Werke: Die objektive logik (1812. F. Meiner.
- ^ "Litteraturbanken | Svenska klassiker som e-bok och epub". litteraturbanken.se. Retrieved 2 April 2020.