1801 in literature

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The year 1801 in literature involved some significant events.

Contents

1 Events
2 New books
3 New drama
4 Poetry
5 Non-fiction
6 Births
7 Deaths
8 Awards

Events

In recognition of the English attack on Copenhagen, Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger produces his first dramatic sketch.

New books

Mary Charlton – The Pirate of Naples
François-René de Chateaubriand – Atala
Maria Edgeworth - Belinda
Robert Evans – The Dream
Elizabeth Helme – St. Margaret's Cave
Rachel Hunter – Letitia
Isabella Kelly – Ruthinglenne
Sophia King – The Fatal Secret
Mary Meeke – Which is the Man
Agnes Musgrave – The Confession
Amelia Opie – Father and Daughter
Eliza Parsons – The Peasant of Ardenne Forest
Annabella Plumptre – The Western Mail
J. H. Sarratt – Terror of Bohemia
Maria Lavinia Smith – The Fugitive of the Forest
Henry Summersett – The Wizard and the Sword
Henry Whitfield – Geraldwood
R. P. M. Yorke – The Haunted Palace

New drama

Friedrich von Schiller
- The Maid of Orleans (German: Die Jungfrau von Orleans)
- Maria Stuart

Poetry

William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads (2nd edition)

Non-fiction

Francis Barrett -The Magus, or Celestial Intelligencer
Elizabeth Hamilton - Letters on the Elementary Principles of Education
Arthur Murphy - Life of David Garrick

Births

February 16 - Frederic Madden, palaeographer
February 21 - John Henry Newman, Catholic writer
March 4 - Karl Rudolf Hagenbach, historian
March 15 - George Perkins Marsh, philologist
August 10 - Christian Hermann Weisse, philosopher
September 4 - Alfred Guillaume Gabriel, Count D'Orsay, wit
November 3 - Karl Baedeker, publisher
November 10 - Vladimir Dal, lexicographer
November 22 - Abraham Hayward
November 24 - Ludwig Bechstein
December 4 - Karl Ludwig Michelet, philosopher
December 7 - Johann Nestroy, dramatist
December 11 - Christian Dietrich Grabbe, dramatist

Deaths

Awards

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