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Overview of the events of 1813 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1813 .
Events
January 23 –
Remorse , a new play by
Samuel Taylor Coleridge , begins a three-week run at the
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane , London.
[1]
January 28 –
Jane Austen 's novel
Pride and Prejudice is first published (as "by the author of Sense and Sensibility ") in London. A second edition follows in November.
[2]
February 3 –
Leigh Hunt is imprisoned for a
libel of the
Prince Regent in
The Examiner (
1812 ). He continues his literary work in prison and will be visited there by
Lord Byron ,
Thomas Moore ,
Charles and
Mary Lamb ,
Charles Cowden Clarke ,
Maria Edgeworth ,
William Hazlitt ,
Jeremy Bentham ,
Lord Brougham and
Benjamin Haydon .
[3]
May 10 – The eccentric English amateur actor
Robert Coates makes his London debut in his favourite role,
Romeo , at the
Theatre Royal, Haymarket .
June 17 –
18 – The German poet and playwright
Theodor Körner , fighting with the
Königlich Preußisches Freikorps von Lützow in the
German campaign against Napoleon (
War of the Sixth Coalition ), composes the
sonnet "Abschied vom Leben" (Farewell to Life) while lying severely wounded.
June – Following the death of
Jean-François Cailhava de L'Estandoux , the historian and publicist
Joseph François Michaud takes up
Seat 29 of the Académie française .
[4]
July – The first award of the
Chancellor's Gold Medal for poetry at the
University of Cambridge in England goes to
George Waddington for "Columbus".
[5]
August 25 – Theodor Körner composes the patriotic lyric "Schwertlied" (Sword Song) on the night before his death in action, aged 21.
[6]
October 2 – The
Philomathean Society of the
University of Pennsylvania is founded. It is the oldest continuously existing literary society in the United States.
[7]
Autumn –
Robert Southey becomes
Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom after
Walter Scott declines the post.
[8]
New books
Fiction
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
Uncertain dates
Deaths
January 1 –
Gioacchino Navarro , Maltese priest and poet (born
1748 )
January 20 –
Christoph Martin Wieland , German poet (born
1733 )
February 4 –
James Whitelaw , Irish historian (born
1749 )
April 22 –
Henry Clifford , English legal writer (born
1768 )
June 26 –
Jean-François Cailhava de L'Estandoux , French dramatist, poet and critic (born
1731 )
August 10 –
Mary Anne Burges , Scottish religious allegorist (born
1763 )
August 11 –
Henry James Pye , English
Poet Laureate (born
1745 )
August 26 –
Theodor Körner , German poet and dramatist (killed in action, born
1791 )
[9]
October 11 –
Robert Kerr , Scottish science writer and translator (born
1755 )
November 12 –
J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur , French-American writer (born
1735 )
References
^ J. C. C. Mays, ed., Coleridge Collected Works vol. 16: Poetical Works Vol 3, Part 2 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001), pp. 1027–1059.
^
"Anniversaries of 2013" . Daily Telegraph . 24 August 2018. Archived from
the original on 31 December 2012.
^ Roe, Nicholas (2004).
"Hunt, (James Henry) Leigh (1784–1859)" .
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Online ed.). Oxford University Press.
doi :
10.1093/ref:odnb/14195 . Retrieved 2013-12-02 . (Subscription or
UK public library membership required.)
^
Chisholm, Hugh , ed. (1911).
"Michaud, Joseph François" .
Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. 18 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 361.
^ University of Cambridge (1828).
Cambridge Prize Poems: Being a Complete Collection of the English Poems which Have Obtained the Chancellor's Gold Medal in the University of Cambridge . T. and J. Allman ... and sold. p. 1.
^ Reynolds, Francis J., ed. (1921).
"Körner, Karl Theodor" .
Collier's New Encyclopedia . New York: P. F. Collier & Son Company.
^ Hood, Clifton R. (January 2006).
"Philomathean Society Biographical Sketches of Founders" . University of Pennsylvania Archives . University of Pennsylvania. Archived from
the original on 13 June 2010. Retrieved 16 August 2010 .
^
"Scott the Poet" . Sir Walter Scott .
Edinburgh University Library . 2007-12-11. Retrieved 2014-01-05 .
^
Chisholm, Hugh , ed. (1911).
"Körner, Karl Theodor" .
Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. 15 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 913.