1805 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1805.

Events

January–September – Samuel Taylor Coleridge serves as Acting Public Secretary in Malta.

Early – Jacob Grimm is invited to Paris as an assistant to Friedrich Karl von Savigny.

New Theatre Royal, Bath, opens in England, replacing the Old Orchard Street Theatre.

Henry Thomas Colebrooke makes the first translation into English of the Aitareya Upanishad.

Fiction

Eugenia de Acton – The Nuns of the Desert

Sophie Ristaud Cottin – Mathilde (translated as The Saracen; or Matilda and Malek Adhel: A Crusade Romance)

Charlotte Dacre – Confessions of the Nun of St. Omer

Robert Charles Dallas – The Morlands

Maria Edgeworth – The Modern Griselda

Jean-Baptiste Cousin de Grainville – Le Dernier Homme

Elizabeth Helme:

The Chronicles of Christabelle de Mowbray

The Pilgrims of the Cross

William Henry Ireland – Gondez the Monk

Matthew Gregory Lewis – The Bravo of Venice

Mary Meeke – The Wonder of the Village

Anna Maria Porter – A Sailor's Friendship, and A Soldier's Love

Catherine Selden – Villa Nova

Richard Sickelmore – Rashleigh Abbey

William Frederick Williams – The Witcheries of Craig Isaf

Sophia Woodfall – The Child of the Abbey

R. P. M. Yorke – My Master's Secret

Mary Julia Young – The Witches of Glenshiel

Children

Ann Taylor and Jane Taylor – Original Poems for Infant Minds by several young persons, Vol. 2

Drama

Alexandre-Vincent Pineux Duval – Le Menuisier de Livonie

Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger – Hakon Jarl

Poetry

Ivan Pnin – God

Walter Scott – The Lay of the Last Minstrel

Martin Archer Shee – Rhymes on Art

Robert Southey – Madoc

Non-fiction

Hosea Ballou – A Treatise on Atonement

Henry Thomas Colebrooke

Essay on the Vedas

A Grammar of the Sanskrit Language

Denis Diderot (posthumously) – Rameau's Nephew (in a German translation by Goethe)

William Henry Ireland – The Confessions of William Henry Ireland

Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool – Treatise on the Coins of the Realm

Ellis Cornelia Knight – Description of Latium or La Campagna di Roma

Richard Payne Knight – An Analytical Inquiry into the Principles of Taste

Jane Marcet (anonymously) – Conversations on Chemistry

Mercy Otis Warren – History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution

Births

February 4 – William Harrison Ainsworth, English historical novelist (died 1882)

April 2 – Hans Christian Andersen, Danish writer (died 1875)

July 29 – Alexis de Tocqueville, French writer (died 1859)

August 29 – F. D. Maurice, English theologian and novelist (died 1872)

September 19 – John Stevens Cabot Abbott, American historian (died 1877)

December 23 – Joseph Smith, American founder and prophet of the Latter Day Saint movement (killed 1844)

Deaths

February 24 – Ralph Broome, English pamphleteer (born 1742)

March 29 – Jean Elliot, Scottish poet (born 1727)

May 9 – Friedrich Schiller, German playwright (born 1759)

May 25 – William Paley, English philosopher (born 1743)

June 18 – Arthur Murphy (Charles Ranger), Irish writer (born 1727)

July 27 – Brian Merriman (Brian Mac Giolla Meidhre), Irish-language poet (born c. 1749)

August 3 – Christopher Anstey, English poet (born 1724)

Early September – Mary Deverell, English religious writer, essayist and poet (born 1731)

September 3 – Johann Martin Abele, German publisher (born 1753)

Unknown dates

Ji Yun (纪昀), Chinese poet and scholar (born 1724)

Anna Hammar-Rosén, Swedish publisher (born 1735)

In literature

Benito Pérez Galdós' novel Trafalgar (1872) is set at this time.

Leo Tolstoy's novel War and Peace (1869), entitled The Year 1805 in an earlier version, opens in this year.

References

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