1805 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1805.
Events
- January 18âSeptember 6 â Samuel Taylor Coleridge serves as Acting Public Secretary in Malta.[1]
- Early â Jacob Grimm is invited to Paris as an assistant to Friedrich Carl von Savigny.
- October 12 â The new Theatre Royal, Bath, opens in England, replacing the Old Orchard Street Theatre.[2]
- Unknown date â Henry Thomas Colebrooke makes the first translation into English of the Sanskrit Aitareya Upanishad.
New books
Fiction
- Eugenia de Acton â The Nuns of the Desert
- Sophie Ristaud Cottin â Mathilde (translated as The Saracen; or Matilda and Malek Adhel: A Crusade Romance)
- Charlotte Dacre â Confessions of the Nun of St. Omer
- Robert Charles Dallas â The Morlands
- Maria Edgeworth â The Modern Griselda
- Jean-Baptiste Cousin de Grainville â Le Dernier Homme
- Elizabeth Helme:
- The Chronicles of Christabelle de Mowbray
- The Pilgrims of the Cross
- William Henry Ireland â Gondez the Monk
- Matthew Gregory Lewis â The Bravo of Venice
- Mary Meeke â The Wonder of the Village
- Anna Maria Porter
- A Sailor's Friendship
- A Soldier's Love
- Jan Potocki â The Manuscript Found in Saragossa (Manuscrit trouvé à Saragosse, first ten "days")
- Catherine Selden â Villa Nova
Children
- Ann Taylor and Jane Taylor â Original Poems for Infant Minds by several young persons, vol. 2
- Achim von Arnim and Clemens Brentano (edited and composed) â Des Knaben Wunderhorn, vol. 1
Drama
- Marianne Chambers â The School for Friends
- George Colman the Younger âWho Wants a Guinea?
- Alexandre-Vincent Pineux Duval â Le Menuisier de Livonie
- Robert William Elliston â The Venetian Outlaw
- Elizabeth Inchbald â To Marry or Not to Marry
- Matthew Lewis â Rugantino
- Thomas Morton â The School of Reform
- Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger â Hakon Jarl
- Henry James Pye â A Prior Claim
- Frederick Reynolds â The Delinquent
- John Tobin â The Honey Moon
Poetry
- Ivan Pnin â God
- Walter Scott â The Lay of the Last Minstrel
- Martin Archer Shee â Rhymes on Art
- Robert Southey â Madoc
Non-fiction
- Hosea Ballou â A Treatise on Atonement
- James Belcher â "Treatice [sic.] on Boxing by Mr. J. Belcher" (article in George Barrington, New London Year)
- Henry Thomas Colebrooke
- Denis Diderot (posthumously) â Rameau's Nephew (in a German translation by Goethe)
- William Henry Ireland â The Confessions of William Henry Ireland
- Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool â Treatise on the Coins of the Realm
- Ellis Cornelia Knight â Description of Latium or La Campagna di Roma
- Richard Payne Knight â An Analytical Inquiry into the Principles of Taste
- Jane Marcet (anonymously) â Conversations on Chemistry[3]
- Mercy Otis Warren â History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution
Births
- February 4 â William Harrison Ainsworth, English historical novelist (died 1882)
- April 2 â Hans Christian Andersen, Danish writer (died 1875)
- July 29 â Alexis de Tocqueville, French writer (died 1859)
- August 29 â F. D. Maurice, English theologian and novelist (died 1872)
- September 19 â John Stevens Cabot Abbott, American historian (died 1877)
- December 23 â Joseph Smith, American founder and prophet of the Latter Day Saint movement (killed 1844)
Deaths
- February 24 â Ralph Broome, English pamphleteer (born 1742)
- March 29 â Jean Elliot, Scottish poet (born 1727)
- May 9 â Friedrich Schiller, German playwright (born 1759)
- May 25 â William Paley, English philosopher (born 1743)
- Anna Maria Rückerschöld, Swedish author (born 1725)
- June 18 â Arthur Murphy (Charles Ranger), Irish writer (born 1727)
- July 27 â Brian Merriman (Brian Mac Giolla Meidhre), Irish-language poet (born c. 1749)
- August 3 â Christopher Anstey, English poet (born 1724)
- Early September â Mary Deverell, English religious writer, essayist and poet (born 1731)
- September 3 â Johann Martin Abele, German publisher (born 1753)
- December 21 â Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage, Portuguese poet (born 1765)[4]
- unknown dates
- Ji Yun (纪æ), Chinese poet and scholar (born 1724)[5]
- Anna Hammar-Rosén, Swedish publisher (born 1735)