1815 in literature
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The year 1815 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
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[edit] Events
- The Brothers Grimm complete the writing of Grimms' Fairy Tales.
- First publication of the North American Review.
[edit] New books
- John Agg - A Month at Brussels
- Sarah Green - The Fugitive
- Elizabeth Gunning - The Victims of Seduction
- Ann Hatton
- The Rock of Glotzden
- Secret Avengers
- Mary Hays - The Brothers, or Consequences
- Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann - The Devil's Elixir
- Barbara Hofland - A Father as He Should Be
- Mary Meeke - The Spanish Campaign
- Mary Pilkington - The Unfortunate Choice
- Jane Porter - The Pastor's Fireside
- Regina Marie Roche - Edinburg; a Novel
- Sir Walter Scott - Guy Mannering
- Catherine Smith - Barozzi or the Venetian Sorceress: A Romance of the Sixteenth Century
- Elizabeth Thomas - The Baron of Falconberg
[edit] New drama
- Barbarina Brand - Ina, a tragedy in five acts
- J. S. Knowles - Caius Gracchus
- Jane Scott -The Gipsy Girl
[edit] Poetry
- Pierre-Jean de Béranger - Chansons I
- Percy Bysshe Shelley - Alastor, or The Spirit of Solitude
- William Wordsworth - White Doe of Rhylstone
[edit] Non-fiction
- George Cavendish -The Life and Death of Cardinal Wolsey
- Les Jeux des Jeunes Garçons
- Thomas Malthus - An Inquiry into the Nature and Progress of Rent
[edit] Births
- April 24 - Anthony Trollope, novelist (d. 1882)
- May 5 - Eugène Marin Labiche, dramatist (d. 1888)
- October 4 - Franz Jakob Clemens, philosopher (d. 1862)
- November 17 - Eliza Farnham, novelist and reformer (d. 1864)
- date unknown - Martins Pena, Brazilian dramatist (d. 1848)
[edit] Deaths
- January 21 - Matthias Claudius, poet (b. 1740)
- November 11 - Pierre-Louis Ginguené, writer and critic (b. 1748)
- November 17 - Dorothea Viehmann, fairy-tale writer (b. 1755)
- December - Jan Potocki, polymath (b. 1761)
- December 20 - Giovanni Meli, Sicilian poet (b. 1740)
