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Overview of the events of 1811 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 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 on
The Necessity of Atheism , a pamphlet they have published anonymously.
[1] 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, 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 .
[2]
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).
[3]
[4]
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 .
[5]
unknown dates
New books
Fiction
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
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 )
[9]
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 )
[10]
December 19 –
Marjorie Fleming , Scottish child writer (born
1803 in literature )
[11]
References
^ Scott, Winifred (1951). Jefferson Hogg: Shelley's Biographer . London: Jonathan Cape.
^
O'Neill, Michael (2004).
"Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792–1822)" .
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Online ed.). Oxford University Press.
doi :
10.1093/ref:odnb/25312 . Retrieved 2015-11-13 . (Subscription or
UK public library membership required.)
^
"Oct 30, 1811: Sense and Sensibility is published" . This Day in History . History. Retrieved 2013-03-25 .
^
"Pride and Prejudice Economics: Or Why a Single Man with a Fortune of £4,000 Per Year is a Desirable Husband" . Jane Austen's World . 2008-02-10. Retrieved 2013-03-25 .
^ Stein, Sadie.
"Final Chapter" . Paris Review . Paris Review. Retrieved 16 October 2014 .
^
Patented in
1810 .
Meggs, Philip B. (1998). A History of Graphic Design . Wiley. pp. 130–133.
ISBN
0-471-29198-6 .
^ Oskar Bandle; Kurt Braunmüller; Ernst Hakon Jahr (2002).
The Nordic Languages: An International Handbook of the History of the North Germanic Languages . Walter de Gruyter. p. 430.
ISBN
978-3-11-014876-3 .
^
"BBC - History - Jane Austen" . www.bbc.co.uk . Retrieved 26 March 2019 .
^
Norwegian and Swedish Poems . 1872. p. 78.
^ Adolf von Wilbrandt (1863).
Heinrich von Kleist. [A biography.] (in German). p. 408.
^ Sutherland, Kathryn (2004).
"Fleming, Marjory (1803–1811), child diarist" .
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press.
doi :
10.1093/ref:odnb/9707 . Retrieved 26 March 2019 . (Subscription or
UK public library membership required.)