1806 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1806.
Events
- July â Following publication of Irish-born poet Thomas Moore's Epistles, Odes, and Other Poems, Francis Jeffrey denounces it in this month's Edinburgh Review as "licentious". Moore challenges Jeffrey to a duel in London but their confrontation is interrupted by officials and they become friends.[1]
- November 23 â Sir Roger Newdigate dies, leaving a bequest that funds the foundation of the Newdigate Prize for English Poetry at the University of Oxford. The first winner is John Wilson ("Christopher North").[2]
- December 29 â Thomas Dibdin's pantomime Harlequin and Mother Goose; or, The Golden Egg opens at the Covent Garden Theatre in London starring Joseph Grimaldi. It runs for 111 performances.
- unknown dates
- Noah Webster publishes his first English dictionary, A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language, recording distinct American spellings.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe completes a preliminary version of his Faust.
- Nólsoyar Páll completes his anti-Danish Fuglakvæði (Ballad of the Birds), one of the first significant works in the Faroese language.
New books
Fiction
- Harriet Butler â Vensenshon
- Sophie Ristaud Cottin â Elisabeth, ou les Exilés de Sibérie
- Catherine Cuthbertson â Santo Sebastiano
- Charlotte Dacre â Zofloya
- Maria Edgeworth â Leonora
- Rachel Hunter â Lady Maclairn, the Victim of Villany
- Francis Lathom â The Mysterious Freebooter
- Matthew Gregory Lewis â Feudal Tyrants
- Sydney Owenson â The Wild Irish Girl
- Louisa Stanhope â Montbrasil Abbey
- Thomas Skinner Surr â Winter in London
Children and young people
- Elizabeth Dawbarn â Young Person's Assistant in Reading the Old Testament
- Ann Taylor and Jane Taylor â Rhymes for the Nursery[3]
Drama
- John Till Allingham â The Romantic Lover
- Richard Cumberland â A Hint to Husbands
- Thomas Dibdin â Five Miles Off
- Thomas Holcroft â The Vindictive Man
- Heinrich von Kleist â The Broken Jug (Der zerbrochne Krug, written)
- George Manners â Edgar
- Leandro Fernández de MoratÃn â The Maidens' Consent (El sà de las niñas, first performed)
Non-fiction
- J. C. Adelung â Mithridates, a History of Language and Dialects
- Johann Gottlieb Fichte â Bericht über die Wissenschaftslehre
- James Madison â An Examination of the British Doctrine which Subjects to Capture a Neutral Trade not Open in Time of Peace
- Maria Rundell (as A Lady) â A New System of Domestic Cookery
- Jane West â Letters to a Young Lady
Births
- January 17 â William Saunders, Welsh poet and printer (died 1851)
- February 1 â Jane Williams (Ysgafell), Welsh poet, folklorist and historian (died 1885)
- February 25 â Emma Catherine Embury, American author and poet (died 1863)[4]
- March 6 â Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English poet (died 1861)[5]
- March 26 â James Hogg, Scottish editor and publisher (died 1888)
- April 17 â William Gilmore Simms, American author (died 1870)
- May 20 â John Stuart Mill, English political economist and philosopher (died 1873)
- July 20 â John Sterling, Scottish essayist and poet (died 1844)
- July 22 â Johann Kaspar Zeuss, German historian and philologist (died 1856)
- August 31 â Charles Lever, Irish novelist (died 1872)
- November 11 â Georgiana Chatterton, English novelist and travel writer (died 1876)
- November 16 â Mary Tyler Peabody Mann, American education reformer and author (died 1887)[6]
- unknown date â Anne Clarke, Australian theatre manager
Deaths
- February 2 â Nicolas Restif de la Bretonne, French writer (born 1734)[7]
- February 12 â Gabriel-Henri Gaillard, French historian (born 1726)
- February 19 â Elizabeth Carter, English poet, writer and translator (born 1717)[8]
- February 24 â Collin d'Harleville, French dramatist (born 1755)
- March 3 â Heinrich Christian Boie, German poet and editor (born 1744)
- April 4 â Carlo Gozzi, Venetian dramatist (born 1720)
- May 6 â Ann Yearsley, English poet, writer and library proprietor (died 1753)
- October 19 â Henry Kirke White, English poet (born 1785)
- October 28 â Charlotte Turner Smith, English poet and novelist (born 1749)
- November 23 â Sir Roger Newdigate, English antiquary, politician and literary patron (born 1719)
- December 26 â Louis Carrogis Carmontelle, French dramatist (born 1717)