1814 in literature

none 1814 literature poetry This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1814. Events January 14 (January 2 O.S.) – The Imperial Public Library in Saint Petersburg opens to the public.Barkhatova Elena Valentinovna Translated by Paul Williams Yuri S. Pamfilov The National Library of Russia, 1795-1995 Liki Rossii St Petersburg 1995 9785874170158 10-18 January 26 – Actor Edmund Kean makes his London début in the leading rôle of Shylock at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.Shakespeare in the Nineteenth Century Cambridge University Press 2012 9780521518246 371 February 1 – Lord Byron's semi-autobiographical tale in verse The Corsair is published by John Murray in London and sells 10,000 copies on this dayJones, Neal T. A Book of Days for the Literary Year https://archive.org/details/bookofdaysforlit0jone registration London; New York Thames and Hudson 1984 0-500-01332-2 and over 25,000 in the first month, going through seven editions. His Lara, A Tale sells 6,000 copies on publication in the summer.Cox, Michael The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature Oxford University Press 2004 0-19-860634-6 registration https://archive.org/details/conciseoxfordchr00coxm Walter Scott is to say of Byron's poetry: "He beat me out of the field in description of the stronger passions and in deep-seated knowledge of the human heart." July 7 – Walter Scott's Waverley, his first work of fiction and a major early historical novel in English, is published anonymously by Archibald Constable in Edinburgh, a week after Scott finishes it. It sells out in two days.Waverley Walter Scott http://www.walterscott.lib.ed.ac.uk/works/novels/waverley.html Edinburgh University Library 2011-12-19 2013-06-29 https://web.archive.org/web/20130430192256/http://www.walterscott.lib.ed.ac.uk/works/novels/waverley.html 2013-04-30 live July 28–September 13 – The English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley abandons his pregnant wife Harriet Westbrook and runs away to France and Switzerland with the 16-year-old Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, accompanied by her stepsister Claire Clairmont, also 16.History of a Six Weeks' Tour. August 24 – Burning of Washington (War of 1812): The British burn the original Library of Congress, at this time housed in the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. September 12–15 – Battle of Baltimore (War of 1812): American lawyer Francis Scott Key, witnessing the bombardment of Baltimore, Maryland, from a British ship, writes "Defence of Fort McHenry". His brother-in-law arranges to have the poem published in a broadside with a recommended tune on September 17; on September 20 both the Baltimore Patriot and The American print it. The song quickly becomes popular – seventeen newspapers from Georgia to New Hampshire reprint it. In 1931, it is adopted as "The Star-Spangled Banner" as the national anthem of the United States.Carruth Gorton The Encyclopedia of American Facts and Dates https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofam00carr_1 registration 9th HarperCollins 1993 September 21 After arrangements have been made for the United States Library of Congress, destroyed in August's Burning of Washington, to be re-stocked by purchase of the personal library of ex-President Thomas Jefferson, Jefferson writes to Samuel H. Smith, saying that there is "no subject to which a Member of Congress may not have occasion to refer".Jefferson's Legacy: A Brief History of the Library of Congress Library of Congress https://www.loc.gov/loc/legacy/loc.html 2006-03-06 2020-07-01 November 29 – In London, The Times newspaper is printed using a revolutionary steam press for the first time.Palmer Alan Palmer Veronica 1992 The Chronology of British History Century Ltd London 246–247 0-7126-5616-2 It runs at a rate of 1100 copies per hour. Late – The first edition of the second volume of the Brothers Grimm's Grimms' Fairy Tales appears, dated 1815. unknown dates The earliest known printed Arabic language version of One Thousand and One Nights begins publication in Calcutta by the British East India Company. Alfred de Vigny enrols as an officer in the Maison du Roi, the King's guard of Louis XVIII of France.Alfred de Vigny Lettres inédites de Alfred de Vigny au marquis et à la marquise de La Grange (1827-1861) pub https://books.google.com/books?id=Zw0WAAAAMAAJ 1914 L. Conard vi New books Fiction Jane Austen (anonymously) – Mansfield ParkBBC - History - Jane Austen https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/austen_jane.shtml www.bbc.co.uk 26 March 2019 Fanny Burney – The Wanderer: or, Female Difficulties (last novel) Mary Brunton – Discipline Adelbert von Chamisso – Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte (Peter Schlemihl's Miraculous Story) Selina Davenport – The Hypocrite Maria Edgeworth – Patronage Pierce Egan – The Mistress of Royalty Jane Harvey Auberry Stanhope Ethelia: a Tale Ann Hatton – Conviction Laetitia Matilda Hawkins – Rossane; or A Father's Labour Lost William Henry Hitchener – The Towers of Ravenswold Christian Isobel Johnstone – The Saxon and the Gaël Mary Meeke – Conscience Lady Morgan – O'Donnell Anna Maria Porter – The Recluse of Norway Regina Maria Roche – Trecothick Bower Walter Scott – Waverley Louisa Stanhope – Madelina: A Tale Founded on Facts Takizawa Bakin (Kyokutei Bakin, 曲亭 馬琴) – Nansō Satomi Hakkenden (南總里見八犬傳, The Eight Dog Chronicles, publication begins) Elizabeth Thomas – The Prison-House Jane West – Alicia de Lacy thumb Children Maria Elizabeth Budden – Always Happy!!: Or, Anecdotes of Felix and his Sister Serena. A Tale Barbara Hofland – Emily and Her Friends Mary Martha Sherwood – The History of Little Henry and his Bearer Drama Leigh Hunt – The Descent of Liberty René Charles Guilbert de Pixérécourt – The Dog of Montarges James Kenney – Debtor and Creditor Robert Francis Jameson – Love and Gout Richard Lalor Sheil – Adelaide Henry Siddons – Policy Poetry Lord Byron The Corsair Lara Henry Cary – translation of Dante's Divine Comedy (complete in blank verse) Adam Oehlenschlager – Helge William Wordsworth – The Excursion Non-fiction Elizabeth Craven – Letters from the Right Honorable Lady Craven to his Serene Highness the Margrave of Anspach during her travels through France, Germany and Russia in 1785 and 1786 Thomas Hartwell Horne – Introduction to the Study of Bibliography Legh Richmond – The Dairyman's Daughter (religious tract about Elizabeth Wallbridge) Percy Bysshe Shelley – A Refutation of Deism Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert – Die Symbolik der Traüme (The Symbolism of Dreams) Births January 15 – Pierre-Jules Hetzel (P. J. Stahl), French publisher and young people's writer (died 1886) January 17 – Mrs. Henry Wood (Ellen Price), English novelist (died 1887) February 18 – Samuel Fenton Cary, American author and prohibitionist (died 1900) March 9 (February 25 O.S.) – Taras Shevchenko, Ukrainian poet (died 1861) March 13 – Edward Backhouse Eastwick, Anglo-Indian orientalist and translator (died 1883)Robert Henry Mair Debrett's Illustrated House of Commons and the Judicial Bench https://books.google.com/books?id=KtoNAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA87 1869 Dean & Son 87 June 8 – Charles Reade, English novelist and dramatist (died 1884)The Bookman Hodder and Stoughton 1913 265 July 23 – George W. M. Reynolds, English popular novelist (died 1879) August 14 – Charlotte Fowler Wells, phrenologist and publisher (died 1901) August 28 – Sheridan le Fanu, Irish Gothic writer (died 1873) September 17 – Ferenc Pulszky, Hungarian writer and politician (died 1897) October 3 – Mikhail Lermontov, Russian poet (died 1841) November 6 – William Wells Brown, African-American writer (died 1884) December 27 – Jules Simon, French philosopher (died 1896) Deaths January 4 – Johann Georg Jacobi, German poet (born 1740) January 21 – Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, French novelist and travel writer (born 1737) January 27 – Johann Gottlieb Fichte, German philosopher (born 1762)Fichte, Johann Gottlieb 1905 February 24 – Julien Louis Geoffroy, French literary critic (born 1743) February 27 – Margaret Bingham, English poet and painter (born 1740) April 12 – Charles Burney, English music historian and musician (born 1726) July 25 – Charles Dibdin, English novelist, playwright and actor (born 1745) September 5 – Gottfried Gabriel Bredow, German historian (born 1773) October 4 – Samuel Jackson Pratt, English poet, playwright and novelist (born 1749)Day Gary Lynch Jack The Encyclopedia of British Literature, 3 Volume Set: 1660 - 1789 9 March 2015 John Wiley & Sons 978-1-4443-3020-5 922 https://books.google.com/books?id=ThBhBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA922 en November 10 – Abbé Aubert, French dramatist, poet and journalist (born 1731) December 2 – Marquis de Sade, French philosopher, writer and politician (born 1740)Lever Maurice Marquis de Sade, a biography Harper Collins 1993 0-246-13666-9 London Goldhammer Arthur 563-564 Awards Newdigate Prize – John Leycester AdolphusNiobe: a prize poem, recited in the Theatre, Oxford, in the year MDCCXIV References External links 1814 Books at Goodreads