1811 in literature
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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1811.
Events
- March 25 - The University of Oxford expels the first-year undergraduate Percy Bysshe Shelley after he and Thomas Jefferson Hogg refuse to answer questions about The Necessity of Atheism, a pamphlet they published anonymously.[1] Earlier this year, Shelley, as "A Gentleman of the University of Oxford", published in London Poetical Essay on the Existing State of Things, containing a 172-line anti-monarchical and anti-war poem published in support of Peter Finnerty (jailed this year for libel against Lord Castlereagh) and dedicated to Harriet Westbrook; his Gothic fiction St. Irvyne; or, The Rosicrucian: A Romance, published under the same designation and dated this year was actually issued in December 1810.[2]
- June - Walter Scott buys the farm at Abbotsford in Scotland and commences building his future residence, Abbotsford House.
- October 30 - First publication of a novel by Jane Austen when Sense and Sensibility ("by a lady") is issued[3] in Thomas Egerton's Military Library (Whitehall, London) at her expense in three volumes[4] priced at 15 shillings.
- 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.
- Friedrich Koenig, with the assistance of Andreas Friedrich Bauer, produces the first steam printing press, in London.[5]
- First complete publication of the Bible in the Ume Sami language.
New books
- Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility
- Amelia Beauclerc - Eva of Cambria
- Mary Brunton - Self-Control
- Augustus Jacob Crandolph - The Mysterious Hand
- 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
- Catherine Smith
- Elizabeth Thomas - Mortimer Hall
- Sarah Wigley - Glencarron: a Scottish Tale
- Sophia F Ziegenhirt - Seabrook Village and Its Inhabitants
New drama
- Sarah Isdell - The Poor Gentlewoman
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
- K. A. Böttiger - Kunstmythologie
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Aus meinem Leben: Dichtung und Wahrheit
- 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)
- June 14 – Harriet Beecher Stowe, American novelist and abolitionist (died 1896)
- July 18 – William Makepeace Thackeray, 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)
Deaths
- January 10 – Joseph Chénier, French poet and dramatist (born 1764)
- 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 – Bishop Thomas Percy, English ballad collector and bishop (born 1729)
- November 21 – Heinrich von Kleist, German poet (suicide, born 1777)
- December 19 – Marjorie Fleming, Scottish child writer (born 1803 in literature)
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