1811 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1811.
Events
- March 25 â The University of Oxford expels the first-year undergraduate Percy Bysshe Shelley after he and Thomas Jefferson Hogg refuse to answer questions on The Necessity of Atheism, a pamphlet they have published anonymously.[1] Earlier this year, Shelley, as "A Gentleman of the University of Oxford", has published in London Poetical Essay on the Existing State of Things, containing a 172-line anti-monarchy, anti-war poem in support of Peter Finnerty (jailed this year for libel against Lord Castlereagh) and dedicated to Harriet Westbrook. Shelley's Gothic fiction St. Irvyne; or, The Rosicrucian: A Romance, published under the same designation and dated this year was actually issued in December 1810.[2]
- June â Walter Scott buys a farm at Abbotsford, Scotland, and commences building his future residence, Abbotsford House.
- October 30 â Jane Austen publishes her first novel: Sense and Sensibility ("by a lady") at her own expense in three volumes, priced at 15 shillings, in Thomas Egerton's Military Library (Whitehall, London).[3][4]
- November 4 â Lord Byron meets Thomas Campbell and Thomas Moore at the home of Samuel Rogers, where the company discusses literary topics.
- November 21 â German poet Heinrich von Kleist shoots his terminally ill lover Henriette Vogel and then himself, on the shore of the Kleiner Wannsee near Potsdam.[5]
- unknown dates
- Friedrich Koenig, with the assistance of Andreas Friedrich Bauer, produces the first steam printing press, in London.[6]
- The first complete publication of the Bible in the Ume Sami language appears.[7]
New books
Fiction
- Jane Austen â Sense and Sensibility[8]
- Mary Brunton â Self-Control
- Charlotte Dacre â The Passions
- Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué â Undine
- Johann Peter Hebel â Schatzkästlein des rheinischen Hausfreundes
- Rachel Hunter â The Schoolmistress
- Heinrich von Kleist â Michael Kohlhaas
- Mary Meeke â Stratagems Defeated
- Lady Morgan â The Missionary: An Indian Tale
- Emma Parker â Elfrida, Heiress of Belgrove
- Percy Bysshe Shelley â St. Irvyne; or, The Rosicrucian
- Elizabeth Thomas â Mortimer Hall
Drama
- Marianne Chambers â Ourselves
- Joseph George Holman â The Gazette Extraordinary
- Richard Leigh â Where to Find a Friend
Poetry
- Anna Maria Porter â Ballad Romances, and Other Poems
- Thomas Pringle â The Institute: a Heroic Poem
- Mary Russell Mitford â Christina, the Maid of the South Seas
Non-fiction
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe â Aus meinem Leben: Dichtung und Wahrheit (The Autobiography of Goethe: Truth and Poetry from my own Life)
- Barthold G. Niebuhr â Roman History
- John Roberton â On Diseases of the Generative System
- Percy Bysshe Shelley â The Necessity of Atheism
Births
- January 9 â Gilbert Abbott à Beckett, English humorist (died 1856)
- February 1 â Arthur Henry Hallam, English poet (died 1833)
- February 19 â Jules Sandeau, French dramatist and novelist (died 1883)
- February 27 â Alexandru Hrisoverghi, Moldavian poet and translator (died 1837)
- June 14 â Harriet Beecher Stowe, American novelist and abolitionist (died 1896)
- July 9 â Fanny Fern, American journalist, novelist and children's writer (died 1872)
- July 18 â William Makepeace Thackeray, English novelist and satirist (died 1863)
- August 31 â Théophile Gautier, French poet and novelist (died 1872)
- September 17 â August Blanche, Swedish writer and statesman (died 1868)
- October 19 â Andreas Munch, Norwegian poet (died 1884)[9]
Deaths
- January 10 â Joseph Chénier, French poet and dramatist (born 1764)
- March 7 â Juraj Fándly, Slovak non-fiction writer, entomologist and priest (born 1750)
- May 7 â Richard Cumberland, English dramatist (born 1732)
- July 28 â Heinrich Joseph von Collin, Austrian dramatist (born 1771)
- September 14 â James Grahame, Scottish poet (born 1765)
- September 30 â Thomas Percy, English ballad collector and bishop (born 1729)
- November 21 â Heinrich von Kleist, German poet (suicide, born 1777)[10]
- December 19 â Marjorie Fleming, Scottish child writer (born 1803 in literature)[11]