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Overview of the events of 1815 in literature
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1815 .
Events
First issue of the
North American Review with signature of its editor
William Tudor .
January 2 –
Lord Byron marries
Anna Isabella Milbanke at
Seaham ,
County Durham .
April 7 –
Lord Byron and
Walter Scott meet for the first time, in the offices of publisher
John Murray , 50
Albemarle Street in London.
[1]
May – First publication of the
North American Review .
June 15 – The
Duchess of Richmond's ball is held in
Brussels on the night before the
Battle of Quatre Bras (and three nights before the
Battle of Waterloo ) by
Charlotte, Duchess of Richmond for her son, the writer
Lord William Lennox . It subsequently features in literary works by
Lord Byron ,
William Makepeace Thackeray ,
Charles Lever ,
Georgette Heyer ,
Bernard Cornwell and
Julian Fellowes .
[2]
[3]
December 23
Thomas Love Peacock 's first novel
Headlong Hall is published anonymously by
Thomas Hookham in London, dated 1816.
[6]
First complete publication of the
Old English
epic poem
Beowulf , in a
Latin translation by Icelandic-Danish scholar
Grímur Jónsson Thorkelin .
The second volume of the first edition of the
Brothers Grimm 's
Grimms' Fairy Tales is dated this year but published late in
1814 .
New books
Fiction
Children and young people
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
January 7 –
E. Louisa Mather , American writer (died
1882 )
February 19 –
Elizabeth Missing Sewell , English novelist and educationist (died
1906 )
April 24 –
Anthony Trollope , English novelist (died
1882 )
[9]
April 25 –
Richard William Church , English biographer and cleric (died
1890 )
May 5 –
Eugène Marin Labiche , French dramatist (died
1888 )
July 17 –
Thekla Knös , Swedish poet (died
1880 )
August 1 –
Marițica Bibescu , Wallachian poet and literary patron (died
1859 )
October 4 –
Franz Jakob Clemens , German philosopher (died
1862 )
November 5 –
Martins Pena , Brazilian dramatist (died
1848 )
November 17 –
Eliza Farnham , American novelist and reformer (died
1864 )
December 10 –
Augusta Ada King (née Byron), Countess of Lovelace , English mathematician and writer on computing (died
1852 )
December 20 –
James Legge , Scottish sinologist, missionary and translator (died
1897 )
unknown date –
Meenakshi Sundaram Pillai , Tamil scholar and poet (died
1876 )
Deaths
January 21 –
Matthias Claudius (Asmus), German poet (born
1740 )
January 30 –
Hans Christian Amberg , Danish lexicographer (born
1749 )
[10]
March 4 –
Frances Abington , née Barton, English actress (born
1737 )
[11]
April 13 –
Thomas Bayly Howell , English legal writer (born
1767 )
September 13 –
Mihály Gáber , Slovene writer in Hungary (born c. 1753)
November 2 –
Gottlieb Christoph Harless , German bibliographer (born
1738 )
November 11 –
Pierre-Louis Ginguené , French writer and critic (born
1748 )
November 17 –
Dorothea Viehmann , German fairy-story teller (born
1755 )
December 20 –
Giovanni Meli , Sicilian poet (born
1740 )
[12]
December 23 –
Jan Potocki , Polish polymath (born
1761 )
References
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"The Byron Chronology, 1814–1816" . Romantic Circles . University of Maryland. Retrieved 2013-11-21 .
^
Sutherland, John ; Fender, Stephen (2011). "15 June". Love, Sex, Death & Words: surprising tales from a year in literature . London: Icon. pp. 228–9.
ISBN
978-184831-247-0 .
^
Longford, Elizabeth (1986).
"194" . In
Hastings, Max (ed.). The Oxford Book of Military Anecdotes . pp. 230–234.
ISBN
978-0-19-520528-2 .
^ Advertisement in
The Morning Chronicle 25 December 1815 p. 1.
^ Howe, Justin (2009-03-10).
"Jan Potocki and the Manuscript Found in Saragossa" . Tor.com . Retrieved 2018-11-30 .
^
Garnett, Richard (1911).
"Peacock, Thomas Love" . In
Chisholm, Hugh (ed.).
Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. 21 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 21–22.
^ Hahn, Daniel (2015). The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (2nd ed.). Oxford. University Press. p. 3.
ISBN
9780198715542 .
^
"The History of Persia, from the Most Early Period to the Present Time" .
World Digital Library . 1815. Retrieved 2013-10-02 .
^ Garnett, Richard (1899).
"Trollope, Anthony" . In
Lee, Sidney (ed.).
Dictionary of National Biography . Vol. 57. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 238–242.
^ Nissen, C. A. (1887).
"Amberg, Hans Christian" . In
Bricka, Carl Frederik (ed.).
Dansk biografisk lexikon (in Danish). Vol. 1. Copenhagen: Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag. pp. 193–194. Retrieved 7 November 2009 .
^ Highfill, Philip H.; Burnim, Kalman; Langhans, Edward (1973).
A biographical dictionary of actors, actresses, musicians, dancers, managers & other stage personnel in London, 1660-1800. Vol. 1, Abaco to Belfille . Carbondale, Ill.: Southern Illinois University Press. pp. 12–20.
ISBN
0809305178 . Retrieved 19 November 2021 .
^ Warner, Charles Dudley. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern. United States: J. A. Hill, 1902. Page 377