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Events
thumb|right|The three volumes of the first edition of Sense and Sensibility, 1811
March 25 – The University of Oxford expels the first-year undergraduate Percy Bysshe Shelley after he and Thomas Jefferson Hogg refuse to answer questions on The Necessity of Atheism, a pamphlet they have published anonymously.Scott Winifred Jefferson Hogg: Shelley's Biographer London Jonathan Cape 1951 Earlier this year, Shelley, as "A Gentleman of the University of Oxford", has published in London Poetical Essay on the Existing State of Things, containing a 172-line anti-monarchy and anti-war poem in support of Peter Finnerty (jailed this year for libel against Lord Castlereagh) and dedicated to Harriet Westbrook. Shelley's Gothic fiction St. Irvyne; or, The Rosicrucian: A Romance, published under the same designation and dated this year was actually issued in December 1810.Michael O'Neill (academic) Michael O'Neill Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792–1822) 2004 Online http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/25312 2015-11-13 10.1093/ref:odnb/25312
June – Walter Scott buys a farm at Abbotsford, Scotland, and commences building his future residence, Abbotsford House.
October 30 – Jane Austen publishes her first novel: Sense and Sensibility ("by a lady") at her own expense in three volumes, priced at 15 shillings, in Thomas Egerton's Military Library (Whitehall, London).Oct 30, 1811: Sense and Sensibility is published http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/sense-and-sensibility-is-published This Day in History History 2013-03-25Jane Austen's World Pride and Prejudice Economics: Or Why a Single Man with a Fortune of £4,000 Per Year is a Desirable Husband 2008-02-10 http://janeaustensworld.wordpress.com/2008/02/10/the-economics-of-pride-and-prejudice-or-why-a-single-man-with-a-fortune-of-4000-per-year-is-a-desirable-husband/ 2013-03-25
November 4 – Lord Byron meets Thomas Campbell and Thomas Moore at the home of Samuel Rogers, where the company discusses literary topics.
November 21 – German poet Heinrich von Kleist shoots his terminally ill lover Henriette Vogel and then himself, on the shore of the Kleiner Wannsee near Potsdam.Stein Sadie Final Chapter https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2014/10/16/final-chapter/ Paris Review Paris Review 16 October 2014
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Friedrich Koenig, with the assistance of Andreas Friedrich Bauer, produces the first steam printing press, in London.Patented in 1810.Meggs Philip B. Philip B. Meggs A History of Graphic Design Wiley 1998 130–133 0-471-29198-6
The first complete publication of the Bible in the Ume Sami language appears.Oskar Bandle Kurt Braunmüller Ernst Hakon Jahr The Nordic Languages: An International Handbook of the History of the North Germanic Languages https://books.google.com/books?id=RqkBXIJkkuEC&pg=PA430 2002 Walter de Gruyter 978-3-11-014876-3 430
New books
Fiction
Jane Austen – Sense and SensibilityBBC - History - Jane Austen https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/austen_jane.shtml www.bbc.co.uk 26 March 2019
Mary Brunton – Self-Control
Charlotte Dacre – The Passions
Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué – Undine
Johann Peter Hebel – Schatzkästlein des rheinischen Hausfreundes
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
Elizabeth Thomas – Mortimer Hall
Drama
Marianne Chambers – Ourselves
Joseph George Holman – The Gazette Extraordinary
Richard Leigh – Where to Find a Friend
Poetry
Anna Maria Porter – Ballad Romances, and Other Poems
Thomas Pringle – The Institute: a Heroic Poem
Mary Russell Mitford – Christina, the Maid of the South Seas
Non-fiction
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – Aus meinem Leben: Dichtung und Wahrheit (The Autobiography of Goethe: Truth and Poetry from my own Life)
Barthold G. Niebuhr – Roman History
John Roberton – On Diseases of the Generative System
Percy Bysshe Shelley – The Necessity of Atheism
Births
January 9 – Gilbert Abbott à Beckett, English humorist (died 1856)
February 1 – Arthur Henry Hallam, English poet (died 1833)
February 19 – Jules Sandeau, French dramatist and novelist (died 1883)
February 27 – Alexandru Hrisoverghi, Moldavian poet and translator (died 1837)
June 14 – Harriet Beecher Stowe, American novelist and abolitionist (died 1896)
July 9 – Fanny Fern, American journalist, novelist and children's writer (died 1872)
July 18 – William Makepeace Thackeray, English novelist and satirist (died 1863)
August 31 – Théophile Gautier, French poet and novelist (died 1872)
September 17 – August Blanche, Swedish writer and statesman (died 1868)
October 19 – Andreas Munch, Norwegian poet (died 1884)Norwegian and Swedish Poems https://books.google.com/books?id=sPIQAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA78 1872 78
Deaths
January 10 – Joseph Chénier, French poet and dramatist (born 1764)
March 7 – Juraj Fándly, Slovak non-fiction writer, entomologist and priest (born 1750)
May 7 – Richard Cumberland, English dramatist (born 1732)
July 28 – Heinrich Joseph von Collin, Austrian dramatist (born 1771)
September 14 – James Grahame, Scottish poet (born 1765)
September 30 – Thomas Percy, English ballad collector and bishop (born 1729)
November 21 – Heinrich von Kleist, German poet (suicide, born 1777)Adolf von Wilbrandt Heinrich von Kleist. [A biography.] https://books.google.com/books?id=5utZAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA408 1863 408 de
December 19 – Marjorie Fleming, Scottish child writer (born 1803 in literature)Fleming, Marjory (1803–1811), child diarist http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-9707 2004 26 March 2019 en 10.1093/ref:odnb/9707 Sutherland Kathryn
References
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External links
1811 Books at Goodreads