1814 in literature
Overview of the events of 1814 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1814 .
Events
January 14 (January 2 O.S. ) – The Imperial Public Library in Saint Petersburg opens to the public.Elena Valentinovna Barkhatova; Paul Williams; I︠U︡. S. Pamfilov (1995). The National Library of Russia, 1795-1995 . Liki Rossii. pp. 10–18. ISBN 9785874170158 . </ref>
January 26 – Actor Edmund Kean makes his London début in the leading rôle of Shylock at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane .[ 1]
February 1 – Lord Byron 's semi-autobiographical tale in verse The Corsair is published by John Murray in London and sells 10,000 copies on this day[ 2] and over 25,000 in the first month, going through seven editions. His Lara sells 6,000 copies on publication in the summer.[ 3] Walter Scott is to say of Byron's poetry: "He beat me out of the field in description of the stronger passions and in deep-seated knowledge of the human heart."
July 7 – Walter Scott 's Waverley , his first work of fiction and a major early historical novel in English, is published anonymously by Archibald Constable in Edinburgh , a week after Scott finishes it. It sells out in two days.[ 4]
July 28 –September 13 – English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley abandons his pregnant wife and runs away to France and Switzerland with the 16-year-old Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin , accompanied by her stepsister Jane Clairmont , also 16.[ 5]
August 24 – Burning of Washington (War of 1812 ): The British burn the original Library of Congress , at this time housed in the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C.
September 12 –15 – Battle of Baltimore (War of 1812): American lawyer Francis Scott Key , witnessing the bombardment of Baltimore , Maryland, from a British ship, writes "Defence of Fort McHenry". His brother-in-law arranges to have the poem published in a broadside with a recommended tune on September 17; on September 20 both the Baltimore Patriot and The American print it. The song quickly becomes popular – seventeen newspapers from Georgia to New Hampshire reprint it. In 1931, it is adopted as "The Star-Spangled Banner " as the national anthem of the United States.[ 6]
September 21 After arrangements have been made for the United States Library of Congress , destroyed in August's Burning of Washington , to be re-stocked by purchase of the personal library of ex-President Thomas Jefferson , Jefferson writes to Samuel H. Smith, saying that there is "no subject to which a Member of Congress may not have occasion to refer".[ 7]
November 29 – In London , The Times newspaper is printed using a revolutionary steam press for the first time.[ 8] It runs at a rate of 1100 copies per hour.
Late – The first edition of the second volume of the Brothers Grimm 's Grimms' Fairy Tales appears, dated 1815 .
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New books
Fiction
Children
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
January 15 – Pierre-Jules Hetzel (P. J. Stahl), French publisher and young people's writer (died 1886 )
January 17 – Mrs. Henry Wood (Ellen Price), English novelist (died 1887 )
February 18 – Samuel Fenton Cary , American author and prohibitionist (died 1900 )
March 9 (February 25 O.S. ) – Taras Shevchenko , Ukrainian poet (died 1861 )
March 13 – Edward Backhouse Eastwick , Anglo-Indian orientalist and translator (died 1883 )[ 11]
June 8 – Charles Reade , English novelist and dramatist (died 1884 )[ 12]
July 23 – George W. M. Reynolds , English popular novelist (died 1879 )
August 14 – Charlotte Fowler Wells , phrenologist and publisher (died 1901 )
August 28 – Sheridan le Fanu , Irish Gothic writer (died 1873 )
September 17 – Ferenc Pulszky , Hungarian writer and politician (died 1897 )
October 3 – Mikhail Lermontov , Russian poet (died 1841 )
November 6 – William Wells Brown , African-American writer (died 1884 )
December 27 – Jules Simon , French philosopher (died 1896 )
Deaths
January 4 – Johann Georg Jacobi , German poet (born 1740 )
January 21 – Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre , French novelist and travel writer (born 1737 )
January 27 – Johann Gottlieb Fichte , German philosopher (born 1762 )[ 13]
February 24 – Julien Louis Geoffroy , French literary critic (born 1743 )
February 27 – Margaret Bingham , English poet and painter (born 1740 )
April 12 – Charles Burney , English music historian and musician (born 1726 )
July 25 – Charles Dibdin , English novelist, playwright and actor (born 1745 )
September 5 – Gottfried Gabriel Bredow , German historian (born 1773 )
October 4 – Samuel Jackson Pratt , English poet, playwright and novelist (born 1749 )[ 14]
November 10 – Abbé Aubert , French dramatist, poet and journalist (born 1731 )
December 2 – Marquis de Sade , French philosopher, writer and politician (born 1740 )[ 15]
Awards
References
^ Shakespeare in the Nineteenth Century . Cambridge University Press. 2012. p. 371. ISBN 9780521518246 .
^ Jones, Neal T., ed. (1984). A Book of Days for the Literary Year . London; New York: Thames and Hudson. ISBN 0-500-01332-2 .
^ Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature . Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6 .
^ "Waverley" . Walter Scott . Edinburgh University Library . 2011-12-19. Archived from the original on 2013-04-30. Retrieved 2013-06-29 .
^ History of a Six Weeks' Tour .
^ Carruth, Gorton (1993). The Encyclopedia of American Facts and Dates (9th ed.). HarperCollins.
^ "Jefferson's Legacy: A Brief History of the Library of Congress" . Library of Congress. 2006-03-06. Retrieved 2020-07-01 .
^ Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History . London: Century Ltd. pp. 246–247. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2 .
^ Alfred de Vigny (1914). Lettres inédites de Alfred de Vigny au marquis et à la marquise de La Grange (1827-1861) pub . L. Conard. p. vi.
^ "BBC - History - Jane Austen" . www.bbc.co.uk . Retrieved 26 March 2019 .
^ Robert Henry Mair (1869). Debrett's Illustrated House of Commons and the Judicial Bench . Dean & Son. p. 87.
^ The Bookman . Hodder and Stoughton. 1913. p. 265.
^ Gilman, D. C. ; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "Fichte, Johann Gottlieb" . New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
^ Day, Gary; Lynch, Jack (9 March 2015). The Encyclopedia of British Literature, 3 Volume Set: 1660 - 1789 . John Wiley & Sons. p. 922. ISBN 978-1-4443-3020-5 .
^ Lever, Maurice (1993). Marquis de Sade, a biography . Translated by Goldhammer, Arthur. London: Harper Collins. pp. 563–564. ISBN 0-246-13666-9 .
^ Niobe: a prize poem, recited in the Theatre, Oxford, in the year MDCCXIV