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1811 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1811.

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Events

  • March 25 - The University of Oxford expels the first-year undergraduate Percy Bysshe Shelley after he and Thomas Jefferson Hogg refuse to answer questions about The Necessity of Atheism, a pamphlet they published anonymously. Earlier this year, Shelley, as "A Gentleman of the University of Oxford", published in London Poetical Essay on the Existing State of Things, containing a 172-line anti-monarchical and anti-war poem published in support of Peter Finnerty (jailed this year for libel against Lord Castlereagh) and dedicated to Harriet Westbrook; his Gothic fiction St. Irvyne; or, The Rosicrucian: A Romance, published under the same designation and dated this year was actually issued in December 1810.
  • June - Walter Scott buys the farm at Abbotsford in Scotland and commences building his future residence, Abbotsford House.
  • October 30 - First publication of a novel by Jane Austen when Sense and Sensibility ("by a lady") is issued in Thomas Egerton's Military Library (Whitehall, London) at her expense in three volumes priced at 15 shillings.
  • November 4 - Lord Byron meets Thomas Campbell and Thomas Moore at the home of Samuel Rogers, where the company discusses literary topics.
  • November 21 - German poet Heinrich von Kleist shoots his terminally-ill lover Henriette Vogel and then himself, on the shore of the Kleiner Wannsee near Potsdam.
  • Friedrich Koenig, with the assistance of Andreas Friedrich Bauer, produces the first steam printing press, in London.
  • First complete publication of the Bible in the Ume Sami language.

    • New books

  • Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility
  • Amelia Beauclerc - Eva of Cambria
  • Mary Brunton - Self-Control
  • Augustus Jacob Crandolph - The Mysterious Hand
  • Charlotte Dacre - The Passions
  • Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué - Undine
  • Johann Peter Hebel - Schatzkästlein des rheinischen Hausfreundes
  • Rachel Hunter - The Schoolmistress
  • Heinrich von Kleist - Michael Kohlhaas
  • Mary Meeke - Stratagems Defeated
  • Lady Morgan - The Missionary: An Indian Tale
  • Emma Parker - Elfrida, Heiress of Belgrove
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley - St. Irvyne; or, The Rosicrucian
  • Catherine Smith
  • Barozzi
  • The Caledonian Bandit
  • Elizabeth Thomas - Mortimer Hall
  • Sarah Wigley - Glencarron: a Scottish Tale
  • Sophia F Ziegenhirt - Seabrook Village and Its Inhabitants

    • New drama

  • Sarah Isdell - The Poor Gentlewoman

    • Poetry

  • Anna Maria Porter - Ballad Romances, and Other Poems
  • Thomas Pringle - The Institute: a Heroic Poem
  • Mary Russell Mitford - Christina, the Maid of the South Seas

    • Non-fiction

  • K. A. Böttiger - Kunstmythologie
  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Aus meinem Leben: Dichtung und Wahrheit
  • Barthold G. Niebuhr - Roman History
  • John Roberton - On Diseases of the Generative System
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley - The Necessity of Atheism

    • Births

  • January 9 – Gilbert Abbott à Beckett, English humorist (died 1856)
  • February 1 – Arthur Henry Hallam, English poet (died 1833)
  • February 19 – Jules Sandeau, French dramatist and novelist (died 1883)
  • February 27 – Alexandru Hrisoverghi, Moldavian poet and translator (died 1837)
  • June 14 – Harriet Beecher Stowe, American novelist and abolitionist (died 1896)
  • July 18 – William Makepeace Thackeray, novelist and satirist (died 1863)
  • August 31 – Théophile Gautier, French poet and novelist (died 1872)
  • September 17 – August Blanche, Swedish writer and statesman (died 1868)
  • October 19 – Andreas Munch, Norwegian poet (died 1884)

    • Deaths

  • January 10 – Joseph Chénier, French poet and dramatist (born 1764)
  • March 7 – Juraj Fándly, Slovak non-fiction writer, entomologist and priest (born 1750)
  • May 7 – Richard Cumberland, English dramatist (born 1732)
  • July 28 – Heinrich Joseph von Collin, Austrian dramatist (born 1771)
  • September 14 – James Grahame, Scottish poet (born 1765)
  • September 30 – Bishop Thomas Percy, English ballad collector and bishop (born 1729)
  • November 21 – Heinrich von Kleist, German poet (suicide, born 1777)
  • December 19 – Marjorie Fleming, Scottish child writer (born 1803 in literature)

    • References

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