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1806 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1806.

Contents

Events

  • Noah Webster publishes his first English dictionary, A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language, recording distinctive American spellings.
  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe completes a preliminary version of his Faust.
  • Sir Roger Newdigate founds the Newdigate Prize for English Poetry at the University of Oxford. The first winner is John Wilson ("Christopher North").
  • December 29 – 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.

    • Fiction

  • Harriet Butler – Vensenshon
  • Sophie Ristaud Cottin – Elisabeth, ou les Exilés de Sibérie
  • Catherine Cuthbertson – Santo Sebastiano
  • Charlotte Dacre – Zofloya
  • Maria Edgeworth – Leonora
  • Sophia Frances – Vivonio
  • William Herbert -The Spanish Outlaw
  • Rachel Hunter -Lady Maclairn, the Victim of Villany
  • Francis Lathom – The Mysterious Freebooter
  • Matthew Gregory Lewis – Feudal Tyrants
  • Henrietta Rouviere Mosse – The Heirs of Villeroy
  • Sydney Owenson – The Wild Irish Girl
  • Louisa Stanhope – Montbrasil Abbey

    • Children and young people

  • Elizabeth Dawbarn – Young Person's Assistant in Reading the Old Testament
  • Ann Taylor and Jane Taylor – Rhymes for the Nursery

    • Drama

  • Richard Cumberland – Hint to Husbands
  • Heinrich von Kleist – The Broken Jug (Der zerbrochne Krug, written)
  • Leandro Fernández de Moratín – The Maidens' Consent (El sí de las niñas, first performed)

    • Poetry

  • Jane and Ann Taylor – Rhymes for the Nursery, including Jane's "The Star" ("Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star").

    • Non-fiction

  • J. C. Adelung – Mithridates, a History of Language and Dialects
  • Johann Gottlieb Fichte – Bericht über die Wissenschaftslehre
  • James Madison – An Examination of the British Doctrine which Subjects to Capture a Neutral Trade not Open in Time of Peace
  • Maria Eliza Rundell (as A Lady) – A New System of Domestic Cookery
  • Jane West – Letters to a Young Lady

    • Births

  • February 1 – Jane Williams (Ysgafell), Welsh poet, folklorist and historian (died 1885)
  • March 6 – Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English poet (died 1861)
  • March 26 – James Hogg, Scottish editor and publisher (died 1888)
  • April 17 – William Gilmore Simms, American author (died 1870)
  • May 20 – John Stuart Mill, English political economist and philosopher (died 1873)
  • July 20 – John Sterling, Scottish essayist and poet (died 1844)
  • July 22 – Johann Kaspar Zeuss, German historian and philologist (died 1856)
  • August 31 – Charles Lever, Irish novelist (died 1872)
  • November 11 – Georgiana Chatterton, English novelist and travel writer (died 1876)

    • Deaths

  • February 12 – Gabriel-Henri Gaillard, French historian (born 1726)
  • February 19 – Elizabeth Carter, English poet, writer and translator (born 1717)
  • February 24 – Collin d'Harleville, French dramatist (born 1755)
  • March 3 – Heinrich Christian Boie, German poet and editor (born 1744)
  • April 4 – Carlo Gozzi, Venetian dramatist (born 1720)
  • May 6 – Ann Yearsley, English poet, writer and library proprietor (died 1753)
  • October 19 – Henry Kirke White, English poet (born 1785)
  • October 28 – Charlotte Turner Smith, English poet and novelist (born 1749)
  • November 23 – Sir Roger Newdigate, English antiquary, politician and literary patron (born 1719)

    • References

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