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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1801.
Events
thumb|right|An adaptation of Atala in painting. Últimos momentos de Atala by Luis Monroy, 1871
April 1 – A letter from "the author of Génie du christianisme" (François-René de Chateaubriand) is published in Le Publiciste, Chateaubriand having returned to France the previous year under an amnesty issued to émigrés.François-René de Chateaubriand Atala. René les Natchez https://books.google.com/books?id=5bdlSFoAxGgC&pg=PT498 18 October 2012 Le Livre de Poche 978-2-253-09467-8 498–
April 2 – Battle of Copenhagen: In recognition of the English attack on Copenhagen, Adam Oehlenschläger produces his first dramatic sketch, April the Second 1801.Charles Knight The English Cyclopædia: A New Dictionary of Universal Knowledge. Biography https://books.google.com/books?id=RpplAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA627 1857 Bradbury & Evans 2
April – John Borthwick Gilchrist is appointed a professor at Fort William College in Calcutta, India, where he establishes the Hindusthani Press.Das Sisir Kumar A Chronology of Literary Events, 1800–1910 A History of Indian Literature: Western Impact, Indian Response, 1800–1910 Sahitya Akademi 2006Thomas Roebuck The Annals of the College of Fort William: From the Period of Its Foundation to the Present Time https://books.google.com/books?id=xrc7PHs3O2QC&pg=RA1-PA53 18 April 2013 Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-05604-5 53
May – Jane Austen moves with her family to Bath.Gill Ballinger http://www.jasna.org/persuasions/on-line/vol34no1/ballinger.html Austen's Bath and Bath's Jane Persuasions On-line Jane Austen Society of North America 34 1 Winter 2013 2014-06-05
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The second edition of Specimens of the Early English Poets, edited by George Ellis and covering poems from the Old English through to the 17th century, is influential in acquainting the general reading public with Middle English poetry, going through a further 4 editions.Jane Campbell The Retrospective Review (1820-1828) and the Revival of Seventeenth Century Poetry https://books.google.com/books?id=JF09DgAAQBAJ&pg=PA8 1 January 2006 Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press 978-0-88920-866-7 8–
The first complete Bible translation into Scottish Gaelic, Am Bìoball Gàidhlig, is published.
New books
Fiction
François-René de Chateaubriand – Atala
Sophie Ristaud Cottin – Malvina
Anne Seymour Damer – Belmour
Maria Edgeworth – Belinda
Elizabeth Helme – St. Margaret's Cave
Rachel Hunter – Letitia
Isabella Kelly – Ruthinglenne
Sophia King – The Fatal Secret
Mary Meeke – Which is the Man
Amelia Opie – The Father and Daughter
Eliza Parsons – The Peasant of Ardenne ForestKamilla Elliott Portraiture and British Gothic Fiction: The Rise of Picture Identification, 1764–1835 https://books.google.com/books?id=loa61PdA7nYC&pg=PA200 19 October 2012 JHU Press 978-1-4214-0717-3 200
Children
Christoph von Schmid – Biblische Geschichte für Kinder (Bible Stories for Children)Walther Killy Walther Killy Rudolf Vierhaus Rudolf Vierhaus Plett - Schmidseder https://books.google.com/books?id=JkoK_108xJkC&pg=PT769 30 November 2011 Walter de Gruyter 978-3-11-096630-5 769
Priscilla Wakefield – The Juvenile Travellers: Containing the Remarks of a Family during a Tour through the Principal States and Kingdoms of Europe
Drama
Heinrich Joseph von Collin – RegulusA History of German Literature https://books.google.com/books?id=789HjQcBNDkC&pg=PA311 Ardent Media 311 GGKEY:WDSFB5WXYFD
George Colman the Younger – The Poor Gentleman
William Godwin – Abbas, King of Persia (written)
Matthew Lewis
Adelmorn, the Outlaw
Alfonso, King of Castile
Thomas Moore and Michael Kelly (tenor) – The Gypsy Prince
Frederick Reynolds – Folly as it Flies
Friedrich Schiller
The Maid of Orleans (Die Jungfrau von Orleans)
Maria Stuart
William Sotheby – Julian and Agnes
Poetry
Henry James Pye – Alfred
William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge – Lyrical Ballads (2nd edition, dated 1800)
Non-fiction
Francis Barrett – The Magus, or Celestial Intelligencer
Elizabeth Hamilton – Letters on the Elementary Principles of Education
Arthur Murphy – Life of David Garrick
Jane West – Letters to a Young Man
Births
January 14 – Jane Welsh Carlyle, Scottish writer, wife of Thomas Carlyle (died 1866)https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/search/archives/1f4f4b32-0fea-3a1f-98d2-7b917a7ba7bb# Correspondence of Jane Baillie Welsh Carlyle (1801-1866) JISC Archives Hub 22 February 2024
February 13 – János Kardos, Hungarian evangelical priest, teacher and writer (died 1875)
February 16 – Frederic Madden, English palaeographer (died 1873)
February 21 – Cardinal John Henry Newman, English theologian and autobiographer (died 1890)
March 4 – Karl Rudolf Hagenbach, Swiss theologian and historian (died 1874)
March 15 – George Perkins Marsh, American philologist (died 1882)
May 9 – Ulrika von Strussenfelt, Swedish novelist (died 1873)
May 31 – Johann Georg Baiter, Swiss philologist and textual critic (died 1877)Baiter, Johann Georg
June 24 – Caroline Clive, English writer (died 1873)P. D. Edwards, "Clive, Caroline (1801–1873)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 retrieved 20 Feb 2008
August 10 – Christian Hermann Weisse, German Protestant religious philosopher (died 1866)
September 4 – Alfred d'Orsay, French wit and dandy (died 1852)
September 7 – Hortense Allart, Milanese-born French feminist novelist (died 1879)Helynne Hollstein Hansen, Hortense Allart : the woman and the novelist, Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, 1998. Page xix
November 3 – Karl Baedeker, German guidebook publisher (died 1859)Baedeker, Karl
November 10 – Vladimir Dal, Russian lexicographer (died 1872)
November 22 – Abraham Hayward, English man of letters (died 1884)
November 24 – Ludwig Bechstein, German writer and collector of folk tales (died 1860)Bechstein, Ludwig 1905
December 4 – Karl Ludwig Michelet, German philosopher (died 1893)
December 7 – Johann Nestroy, Austrian dramatist (died 1862)
December 11 – Christian Dietrich Grabbe, German dramatist (died 1836)Lob Ladislaus Konzett Matthias Encyclopedia of German Literature. 2015 Routledge 978-1135941222 362–3 https://books.google.com/books?id=5uE4CQAAQBAJ&q=%22a+drunken+Shakespeare%22+Grabbe 12 November 2019
December 12 – Edward Moxon, English poet and publisher (died 1858)
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Franciszek Ksawery Godebski, Polish writer (died 1869)
Cynthia Taggart, American poet (died 1849)Duzee Edward P. Van Catalogue of Poetry in the English Language: In the Grosvenor Library, Buffalo, N.Y. https://books.google.com/books?id=8FwEAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA112 Public domain 1902 Grosvenor Library (London, England)
Deaths
January 2 – Johann Kaspar Lavater, Swiss poet (born 1741)
January 9 – Margaretta Faugères, American playwright, poet and political activist (born 1771)
January 13 – Robert Orme, English historian of India (born 1728)
March 14 – Ignacy Krasicki, Polish poet and prince-bishop (born 1735)
March 21 – John Holt, English scholar (born 1743)
March 25 – Novalis, German poet (born 1772)Donehower, Bruce 2007 1815 Tieck, Ludwig Ludwig Tieck Ludwig Tieck "Biography of Novalis, 1815 UYpkY-G1f84C 126 yes The Birth of Novalis: Friedrich Von Hardenberg's Journal of 1797, with Selected Letters and Documents Albany, NY: State University of New York Press 126–136 9780791480687
April 11 – Antoine de Rivarol, French scholar and epigrammatist (born 1753)
September 1 – Robert Bage, English novelist (born 1728)
September 7 – Giovanni Andrea Lazzarini, Italian painter, poet and art historian (born 1710)
September 23 – Thomas Nowell, Welsh-born controversialist and historian (born c. 1730)Sir Thomas Duffus Hardy Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae, Or, A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales, and of the Chief Officers in the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge: From the Earliest Time to Year MDCCXV https://books.google.com/books?id=TP8UAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA585 1854 Oxford University Press 585
November 5 – Motoori Norinaga, Japanese philologist and scholar (born 1730) https://bunka.nii.ac.jp/heritages/detail/210420 本居宣長墓(樹敬寺)附 本居春庭墓 Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs August 20, 2020
December 25 – Hester Chapone, English writer of conduct books (born 1727)Fanny Burney The Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney (Madame D'Arblay) Volume V: West Humble and Paris, 1801-1803: Letters 423-549 https://books.google.com/books?id=GC9aAAAAMAAJ 1972 Clarendon Press 978-0-19-812467-2 106
References
30em
External links
1801 Books at Goodreads