1807 in literature

none 1807 literature poetry This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1807. Events thumb|right|Title page of The Family Shakspeare, 1819 edition January – Heinrich von Kleist sets out for Dresden, but is arrested by the French as a spy and kept as a prisoner for six months at Châlons-sur-Marne.https://books.google.com/books?id=MIlpQHE7RCUC&pg=PA5 Bernd Fischer A Companion to the Works of Heinrich Von Kleist Camden House 2003 5 January 24 – Washington Irving launches the satirical magazine Salmagundi in New York City. Salmagundi lampooned New York City's culture and politics in a manner much like today's Mad magazine.Jones, 82. It was in the November 11, 1807, issue that Irving first attached the name Gotham to New York City, based on the alleged stupidity of the people of Gotham, Nottinghamshire.Burrows, Edwin G. and Mike Wallace. Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 (Oxford University Press, 1999), 417. June 24 – The Tout-Paris assist in the first production of the Panorama de Momus, a vaudeville by Marc-Antoine Désaugiers. July 13 – Heinrich von Kleist is released from prison in France. unknown dates The first edition of The Family Shakspeare, an expurgated edition of Shakespeare's plays under the nominal editorship of Thomas Bowdler, but probably compiled mostly by his sister Henrietta Maria Bowdler, appears in London.Aron Thompson Women Reading Shakespeare, 1660-1900: An Anthology of Criticism https://books.google.com/books?id=Xd9RAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA46 1997 Manchester University Press 978-0-7190-4704-6 46 The first facsimile edition of the Shakespeare First Folio, edited by Francis Douce, is published in London by Edward and Joseph Wright. Benjamin Tabart in London publishes the first printed version of The History of Jack and the Bean-Stalk. Charles Wiley founds a print shop in Manhattan, which eventually grows into the John Wiley & Sons book publishing group. New books Fiction Harriet Butler – Count Eugenio Charlotte Dacre – The Libertine Elizabeth Gunning – The Orphans of Snowdon Rachel Hunter – Family Annals William Henry Ireland – The Catholic Charles and Mary Lamb – Tales from Shakespeare Matthew Gregory Lewis – The Wood Daemon P. D. Manville – Lucinda Charles Maturin – The Fatal Revenge Mary Meeke – Julien Mary Pilkington – Ellen: Heiress of the Castle Anna Maria Porter – The Hungarian Brothers Regina Marie Roche – The Discarded Son Anne Louise Germaine de Stael – Corinne, or Italy Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson – The Castle Spectre Drama Thomas John Dibdin – Errors Excepted Harlequin in his Element Mother Goose Giovanni Giraud – Gelosie per equivoco William Godwin – Faulkener Sophia Lee – The Assignation Matthew Lewis – Adelgitha Thomas Morton – Town and Country John Tobin – The Curfew Poetry James Hogg – The Mountain Bard William Wordsworth – Poems in Two Volumes Non-fiction Antoine Alexandre Barbier – Dictionnaire des ouvrages anonymes et pseudonymes Jacob Boehme – Quarante Questions sur l'âme (translated into French by Louis Claude de Saint-Martin) Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel – The Phenomenology of Spirit (Phänomenologie des Geistes) Gottlieb Hufeland – New Foundations of Political Economy (Neue Grundlegung der Staatswirthschaftskunst) (vol. 1) Alexander von Humboldt – Voyage aux régions équinoxiales du nouveau continent 1799–1804 Thomas Paine – The Age of Reason Sydney Smith (as Peter Plymley) – Letters on the Subject of the Catholics (publication begins) Germaine de Staël – Corinne, ou l'Italie Births January 28 – Sophie Bolander, Swedish novelist (died 1869) February 27 – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet (died 1882) Calhoun Charles C Longfellow: A Rediscovered Life https://archive.org/details/longfellow00char registration Boston Beacon Press 2004 978-0807070260 5 May 14 – Charlotta Djurström, Swedish actress and theatre manager (died 1877) June 30 – Friedrich Theodor Vischer, German author (died 1887) August 8 – Emilie Flygare-Carlén, Swedish author (died 1892)Carlén, Emilia Smith Flygare 1905 August 31 – Thomas Miller, English "ploughman poet" and novelist (died 1874) September 2 – Fredrika Runeberg, Finnish novelist and journalist (died 1879)http://www.sls.fi/FredrikaRuneberg/ Fredrika Runeberg Svenska Littaratursällskapet i Finland 2014-05-14 https://archive.today/20140506115317/http://www.sls.fi/FredrikaRuneberg/ May 6, 2014 dead September 9 – Richard Chenevix Trench, Anglo-Irish Anglican archbishop and poet (died 1886) October 8 – Harriet Taylor, English philosophical writer (died 1858)38051 Mill [née Hardy; other married name Taylor], Harriet Ann P. Robson October 23 – Jemima von Tautphoeus, née Montgomery, Anglo-Irish-born novelist (died 1893) October 30 – Christopher Wordsworth, English Anglican bishop and Biblical scholar (died 1885) November 16 – Jónas Hallgrímsson, Icelandic poet (died 1845) December 17 – John Greenleaf Whittier, American Quaker poet and abolitionist, abolitionist (died 1892) Deaths January 5 – Isaac Reed, English Shakespearean editor (born 1742) February 18 – Sophie von La Roche, German novelist (born 1730) June 14 – Louis Bruyas, French dramatist and actor (born 1738) July 24 – John Christopher Kunze, American theologian (born 1744)American Philosophical Society Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for Promoting Useful Knowledge https://books.google.com/books?id=f_1KAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA11 1865 The Society 11 August 1 – John Walker, English lexicographer (born 1732) December 3 – Clara Reeve, English novelist and literary historian (born 1729) December 19 – Friedrich Melchior, baron von Grimm, German-born French memoirist and literary correspondent (born 1723) December 21 – John Newton, English hymnist (born 1725)John Newton Life of John Newton in letters written by himself to ... Dr. Haweis. https://books.google.com/books?id=7uhiAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA95 1824 95– References Sources Jones, Brian Jay. Washington Irving: An American Original. (Arcade, 2008) 978-1-55970-836-4 External links 1807 Books at Goodreads