1825 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1825.

Events

February 19 â Franz Grillparzer's KÃ¶nig Ottokars GlÃ¼ck und Ende (The Fortune and Fall of King Ottokar, published 1823) is first performed, at the Burgtheater in Vienna, after Caroline Augusta, Empress of Austria, urges her husband Francis I of Austria to lift the censorship restrictions on it.
April â Charles Lamb retires from his clerical post with the East India Company in London on superannuation.
May 6âJune 15 â The two youngest BrontÃ« sisters, Maria and Elizabeth, die at home at Haworth Parsonage aged 11 and 9, of consumption they have contracted at Cowan Bridge School.
May 6 â French bibliophile, translator, lawyer and politician Henri Boulard (born 1754) dies, leaving a library of over half a million books, one of the greatest private book collections in history.
December 17 â John Neal moves in with and becomes personal secretary of Jeremy Bentham, who recruits Neal to his utilitarian philosophy.^[1]
unknown date â The first publication of Samuel Pepys' Diary (1660â1669) appears, edited by Lord Braybrooke from a transcription by Rev. John Smith.^[2]

Maria Hack â English Stories. Third Series, Reformation under the Tudor Princes

Caroline Boaden â Quite Correct
Aleksander Griboyedov â Woe from Wit (part published)
George Hyde â Love's Victory
James Sheridan Knowles â William Tell
Harriet Lee â The Three Strangers
John Poole â Paul Pry
Alexander Pushkin â Boris Godunov (published 1831, but approved for the stage only in 1866)
William Tennant â John Balliol
Charles Walker â The Fall of Algiers

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin â Physiologie du goÃ»t (The Physiology of Taste)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge â Aids to Reflection
George Gleig â The Subaltern
William Hazlitt â The Spirit of the Age
Sarah Kemble Knight â The Journal of Madam Knight
John Claudius Loudon â The Encyclopaedia of Agriculture
Thomas Moore â Memoirs of the Life of Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Harriette Wilson â The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson, Written by Herself

January 11 â Bayard Taylor, American poet (died 1878)
February 13 â Julia C. R. Dorr, American author (died 1913)
February 18 â MÃ³r JÃ³kai, Hungarian novelist and dramatist (died 1904)
March 3 â Annie Keary, English novelist, poet and children's writer (died 1879)
March 16 â Lucy Virginia French, American author (died 1881)
April 3 â William Billington, English poet and publican (died 1884)
April 13 â Minnie Mary Lee, American author of poems, stories, sketches and novels (died 1903)
April 20 â Emma Jane Guyton (Worboise), English novelist and magazine editor (died 1887)
April 24 â R. M. Ballantyne, Scottish writer of juvenile fiction (died 1894)
May 21 â Nancy H. Adsit, American art writer, lecturer, educator (died 1902)
June 7 â R. D. Blackmore, English novelist (died 1900)
June 14 â Mary Elizabeth Beauchamp, English-born American author and educator (died 1903)
July 2 â Richard Henry Stoddard, American critic and poet (died 1903)
July 13 â Madeleine Vinton Dahlgren, American writer, translator, and anti-suffragist (died 1889)
July 28 â E. J. Richmond, American author (died 1918)
October 19 â Jeanette Granberg, Swedish playwright and translator (died 1857)
October 23 â Walter Gregor, Scottish folklorist, linguist and pastor (died 1897)
Uncertain date â Annie French Hector (pseudonym Mrs Alexander), Irish-born novelist (died 1902)

March 9 â Anna Laetitia Barbauld, English poet, essayist and children's author (born 1743)
April 23 â Maler MÃ¼ller, German poet, dramatist and painter (born 1749)
June 4 â Morris Birkbeck, American writer and social reformer (born 1764)
June 11 â Helen Craik, Scottish novelist and poet (born c. 1751)
August 10 â Joseph Harris (Gomer), Welsh poet and journalist (born 1773)
November 7 â Charlotte Dacre, English poet and Gothic novelist (born c. 1772)
December 5 â Mary Whateley (Mary Darwall), English poet (born 1738)
unknown dates
- Huang Peilie (é»ä¸ç), Chinese bibliophile (born 1763)^[4]
- Shen Fu (æ²å¾©), Chinese novelist and chronicler (born 1763)^[5]