1816 in literature

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The year 1816 in literature involved some significant new books.

Contents 1 Events 2 New books 3 New drama 4 Poetry 5 Non-fiction 6 Births 7 Deaths 8 Awards

[edit] Events

• John Keats composes the poem, Sleep and Poetry, while staying at the house of his friend, Leigh Hunt.

[edit] New books

• Thomas Ashe - The Soldier of Fortune
• Jane Austen - Emma
• Benjamin Constant - Adolphe
• Selina Davenport - The Original of the Miniature
• Stéphanie Félicité, Comtesse de Genlis - Jane of France
• Sarah Green - The Reformist
• Jane Harvey - Brougham Castle
• Ann Hatton - Chronicles of an Illustrious House
• Barbara Hofland - The Maid of Moscow
• John Hoyland (writer) - English Quaker
• Leigh Hunt - The Story of Rimini
• Henry Gally Knight - Ilderim, a Syrian Tale
• Caroline Lamb - Glenarvon
• Agnes Lancaster - The Abbess of Valtiera
• José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi - The Mangy Parrot
• Emma Parker - Self-deception
• David W. Paynter - Godfrey Ranger
• Thomas Love Peacock - Headlong Hall
• Henrietta Roviere - Craig Melrose Abbey
• Sir Walter Scott
  • The Antiquary
  • The Black Dwarf
  • Old Mortality
• Ann Sullivan - Owen Castle
• Sophia F.Ziegenhirt - The Orphan of Tintern Abbey

[edit] New drama

• Charles Maturin - Bertram; or The Castle of St. Aldobrand

[edit] Poetry

• Lord Byron - The Siege of Corinth
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Kubla Khan (written in 1797)
• Percy Bysshe Shelley - Alastor

[edit] Non-fiction

• Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Statesman's Manual
• Nikolai Karamzin - History of the Russian Empire

[edit] Births

• April 21- Charlotte Brontë (+ 1855)

[edit] Deaths

• February 22 - Adam Ferguson, philosopher
• July 7 - Richard Brinsley Sheridan

[edit] Awards