1814 in literature
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The year 1814 in literature involved some significant events.
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[edit] Events
- In England, a revolutionary steam-powered press prints the Times newspaper at a rate of 1100 copies per hour.
[edit] New books
- Jane Austen — Mansfield Park
- Fanny Burney — The Wanderer
- Mary Brunton - — Discipline
- Lord Byron - The Corsair
- Selina Davenport — The Hypocrite
- Maria Edgeworth — Patronage
- Pierce Egan — The Mistress of Royalty
- Jane Harvey
- Ann Hatton — Conviction
- Laetitia Matilda Hawkins - Rossane; or A father’s labour lost
- William Henry Hitchener — The Towers of Ravenswold
- Barbara Hofland — Emily and Her Friends
- Christian Isobel Johnstone - the Saxon and the Gaël
- Mary Meeke — Conscience
- Lady Morgan — O'Donnell
- Anna Maria Porter — The Recluse of Norway
- Regina Marie Roche— Trecothick Bower
- Honoria Scott — The Castle of Strathmay
- Sir Walter Scott — Waverley
- Mary Martha Sherwood — The History of Little Henry and his Bearer
- Louisa Stanhope — Madelina: A Tale Founded on Facts
- Elizabeth Thomas — The Prison-House
- Jane West — Alicia de Lacy
[edit] New drama
- Richard Lalor Sheil - Adelaide, or the Emigrants
[edit] Poetry
[edit] Non-fiction
- Thomas Hartwell Horne - Introduction to the Study of Bibliography
- Elizabeth Wallbridge - The Dairyman's Daughter
[edit] Births
- June 8 - Charles Reade, English writer (d. 1884)
- June 14 - Harriet Beecher Stowe (d. 1896)
- August 28 - Sheridan le Fanu, Irish writer (d. 1873)
- October 3 - Mikhail Lermontov, Russian poet (d. 1841)
- November 6 - William Wells Brown African-American writer (d. 1884)
- December 27 - Jules Simon, French philosopher (d. 1896)
[edit] Deaths
- January 4 - Johann Georg Jacobi, poet (b. 1740)
- January 27 - Johann Gottlieb Fichte, philosopher (b. 1762)
- February 24 - Julien Louis Geoffroy, French literary critic (b. 1743)
- July 25 - Charles Dibdin, novelist, dramatist and actor (b. 1745)
- September 5 - Gottfried Gabriel Bredow, historian (b. 1773)
- November 10 - Abbé Aubert, dramatist, poet and journalist (b. 1731)
- December 2 - Marquis de Sade, pornographic author (b. 1740)
