1801 in literature
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The year 1801 in literature involved some significant events.
Events
- In recognition of the English attack on Copenhagen, Adam Gottlob OehlenschlägerAdam Gottlob OehlenschlägerAdam Gottlob Oehlenschläger was a Danish poet and playwright. He introduced romanticism into Danish literature.-Biography:He was born in Vesterbro, then a suburb of Copenhagen, on 14 November 1779...
produces his first dramatic sketch.
New books
- Mary Charlton – The Pirate of Naples
- François-René de ChateaubriandFrançois-René de ChateaubriandFrançois-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand was a French writer, politician, diplomat and historian. He is considered the founder of Romanticism in French literature.-Early life and exile:...
– Atala - Anne Seymour DamerAnne Seymour DamerAnne Seymour Damer, née Conway, was an English sculptor.-Life:Anne Conway was born into an aristocratic Whig family, the only daughter of Field-Marshal Henry Seymour Conway and his wife Caroline Bruce, born Campbell, Lady Ailesbury , and was brought up at the family home at Park Place, Remenham,...
- Belmour - Maria EdgeworthMaria EdgeworthMaria Edgeworth was a prolific Anglo-Irish writer of adults' and children's literature. She was one of the first realist writers in children's literature and was a significant figure in the evolution of the novel in Europe...
- BelindaBelinda (Edgeworth novel)Belinda is an 1801 novel by the Irish writer Maria Edgeworth. It was first published in three volumes by Joseph Johnson of London in 1801, and was later reprinted by Pandora Press in 1986... - Robert Evans – The Dream
- Elizabeth HelmeElizabeth HelmeElizabeth Helme was an English novelist and translator of the 18th century.She was born in County Durham, but her maiden name is not known. The family moved to London, where she met William Helme, who became her husband. They had five children. One of their daughters, Elizabeth Somerville, was...
– St. Margaret's Cave - Rachel HunterRachel Hunter (author)Rachel Hunter was an English novelist of the early 19th century.-Works:*Letitia, or, The Castle without a Spectre *The History of the Grubthorpe Family...
– Letitia - Isabella KellyIsabella KellyIsabella Kelly, née Fordyce, also Isabella Hedgeland was a British novelist and poet. She married Robert Hawke Kelly , a captain in the Royal Navy...
– Ruthinglenne - Sophia King – The Fatal Secret
- Mary MeekeMary MeekeMary Meeke was a prolific author of around 30 novels published by the Minerva Press during the early 19th century, and is believed to have died in October 1816....
– Which is the Man - Agnes Musgrave – The Confession
- Amelia OpieAmelia OpieAmelia Opie, née Alderson , was an English author who published numerous novels in the Romantic Period of the early 19th century, through 1828.-Life and work:...
– The Father and Daughter - Eliza ParsonsEliza ParsonsEliza Parsons was an English gothic novelist. Her most famous novels in this genre are The Castle of Wolfenbach and The Mysterious Warning - two of the seven gothic titles recommended as reading by a character in Jane Austen's novel Northanger Abbey.-Life:Many different speculations have been...
– The Peasant of Ardenne Forest - Annabella Plumptre – The Western Mail
- J. H. Sarratt – Terror of Bohemia
- Maria Lavinia Smith – The Fugitive of the Forest
- Henry Summersett – The Wizard and the Sword
- Henry Whitfield – Geraldwood
- R. P. M. Yorke – The Haunted Palace
New drama
- Friedrich von Schiller
- The Maid of OrleansThe Maid of Orleans (play)The Maid of Orleans is a tragedy by Friedrich Schiller, written in 1801 in Leipzig. During his lifetime, it was one of Schiller's most frequently-performed pieces.-Plot:...
- Maria StuartMaria Stuart (play)Mary Stuart , a play by Friedrich Schiller, depicts the last days of Mary, Queen of Scots. The play consists of five acts, each divided into several scenes. The play had its première in Weimar, Germany on 14 June 1800...
- The Maid of Orleans
- The Gypsy PrinceThe Gypsy PrinceThe Gypsy Prince is a 1801 Comic opera written by Thomas Moore and Michael Kelly staged at the Haymarket Theatre by George Colman. The two men were initially happy to collaborate with each other, but Moore objected to Kelly's making correction's to his work - something that Mozart had allowed when...
by Thomas MooreThomas MooreThomas Moore was an Irish poet, singer, songwriter, and entertainer, now best remembered for the lyrics of The Minstrel Boy and The Last Rose of Summer. He was responsible, with John Murray, for burning Lord Byron's memoirs after his death...
and Michael Kelly (tenor)
Poetry
- William WordsworthWilliam WordsworthWilliam Wordsworth was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with the 1798 joint publication Lyrical Ballads....
and Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, Romantic, literary critic and philosopher who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets. He is probably best known for his poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla...
- Lyrical BalladsLyrical BalladsLyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems is a collection of poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, first published in 1798 and generally considered to have marked the beginning of the English Romantic movement in literature...
(2nd edition)
Non-fiction
- Francis BarrettFrancis Barrett (occultist)Francis Barrett was an English occultist.Barrett, an Englishman, claimed himself to be a student of chemistry, metaphysics, and natural occult philosophy...
-The Magus, or Celestial IntelligencerThe Magus (handbook)The Magus, or Celestial Intelligencer is a handbook of the occult and ceremonial magic compiled by Francis Barrett and published in 1801. Much of the material was actually collected by Barrett from older occult handbooks, as he hints in the preface:... - Elizabeth HamiltonElizabeth HamiltonElizabeth Hamilton was a British essayist, poet, satirist and novelist. Born in Belfast to Charles Hamilton , a Scottish merchant, and his wife Katherine Mackay , she lived most of her life in Scotland, dying in Harrogate in England after a short illness.Her first literary efforts were directed in...
- Letters on the Elementary Principles of Education - Arthur MurphyArthur MurphyArthur Murphy , also known by the pseudonym Charles Ranger, was an Irish writer.-Biography:He was born at Cloonyquin, County Roscommon, Ireland, the son of Richard Murphy and Jane French....
- Life of David GarrickDavid GarrickDavid Garrick was an English actor, playwright, theatre manager and producer who influenced nearly all aspects of theatrical practice throughout the 18th century and was a pupil and friend of Dr Samuel Johnson...
Births
- February 16 - Frederic MaddenFrederic MaddenSir Frederic Madden , was an English palaeographer.-Biography:Madden was the son of an officer of Irish extraction, he was born at Portsmouth. From his childhood he displayed a flair for linguistic and antiquarian studies...
, palaeographer - February 21 - John Henry Newman, Catholic writer
- March 4 - Karl Rudolf HagenbachKarl Rudolf HagenbachKarl Rudolf Hagenbach was a Swiss church historian.-Life:He was born at Basel, where his father was a practising physician. His preliminary education was at a Pestalozzian school, and afterwards at the gymnasium, whence in due course he passed to the newly reorganized local university...
, historian - March 15 - George Perkins MarshGeorge Perkins MarshGeorge Perkins Marsh , an American diplomat and philologist, is considered by some to be America's first environmentalist, although "conservationist" would be more accurate...
, philologist - August 10 - Christian Hermann WeisseChristian Hermann WeisseChristian Hermann Weisse , was a German Protestant religious philosopher.- Philosophy :He was born at Leipzig, and studied at the university there, at first adhering to the Hegelian school of philosophy. In the course of time, his ideas changed, and became close to those of Schelling in his later...
, philosopher - September 4 - Alfred Guillaume Gabriel, Count D'OrsayAlfred Guillaume Gabriel, Count D'OrsayAlfred d'Orsay, known as the comte d'Orsay was a French amateur artist, dandy, and man of fashion in the early- to mid-19th century.-Life:...
, wit - November 3 - Karl BaedekerKarl BaedekerKarl Baedeker was a German publisher whose company Baedeker set the standard for authoritative guidebooks for tourists.- Biography :...
, publisher - November 10 - Vladimir DalVladimir DalVladimir Ivanovich Dal was one of the greatest Russian language lexicographers. He was a founding member of the Russian Geographical Society. He knew at least six languages including Turkic and is considered to be one of the early Turkologists...
, lexicographer - November 22 - Abraham HaywardAbraham HaywardAbraham Hayward was an English man of letters.-Life:He was son of Joseph Hayward, and was born in Wilton, near Salisbury, Wiltshire....
- November 24 - Ludwig BechsteinLudwig BechsteinLudwig Bechstein was a German writer and collector of folk fairy tales.He was born in Weimar, the illegitimate child of Johanna Carolina Dorothea Bechstein and Hubert Dupontreau, a French emigrant who disappeared even before the birth of the child, and Ludwig thus grew up his first nine years in...
- December 4 - Karl Ludwig MicheletKarl Ludwig MicheletKarl Ludwig Michelet , German philosopher, was born at Berlin.He studied at the gymnasium and at the university of his native town, took his degree as doctor of philosophy in 1824, and became professor in 1829, a post which he retained till his death...
, philosopher - December 7 - Johann NestroyJohann NestroyJohann Nepomuk Eduard Ambrosius Nestroy was a singer, actor and playwright in the popular Austrian tradition of the Biedermeier period and its immediate aftermath...
, dramatist - December 11 - Christian Dietrich GrabbeChristian Dietrich GrabbeChristian Dietrich Grabbe was a German dramatist.Born in Detmold, Lippe, he wrote many historical plays and is also known for his use of satire and irony. He suffered from an unhappy marriage...
, dramatist
Deaths
- January 2 - Johann Kaspar LavaterJohann Kaspar LavaterJohann Kaspar Lavater was a Swiss poet and physiognomist.-Early life:Lavater was born at Zürich, and educated at the Gymnasium there, where J. J. Bodmer and J. J...
, Swiss poet (b. 1741) - March 14 - Ignacy KrasickiIgnacy KrasickiIgnacy Krasicki , from 1766 Prince-Bishop of Warmia and from 1795 Archbishop of Gniezno , was Poland's leading Enlightenment poet , a critic of the clergy, Poland's La Fontaine, author of the first Polish novel, playwright, journalist, encyclopedist, and translator from French and...
, poet (b. 1735) - March 21 - John HoltJohn Holt (author)-Life:Holt was born at Hattersley, near Mottram in Longdendale, Cheshire, in 1743. About 1757 he settled at Walton-on-the-Hill, near Liverpool, where for many years he acted as parish clerk, highway surveyor, and master of the free grammar school, besides at one time keeping a ladies’ school.He...
, non-fiction author (b. 1743) - March 25 - NovalisNovalisNovalis was the pseudonym of Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg , an author and philosopher of early German Romanticism.-Biography:...
, German poet (b. 1772) - April 11 - Antoine de RivarolAntoine de RivarolAntoine de Rivarol was a Royalist French writer during the Revolutionary era.Rivarol was born in Bagnols-sur-Cèze, Gard. It appears that his father, an innkeeper, was a cultivated man...
, epigrammatist (b. 1753) - September 1 - Robert BageRobert Bage (novelist)Robert Bage was an English businessman and novelist.Born in Darley Abbey, near Derby, Bage was the son of a paper-maker and was himself a papier. For a time he lived in Elford, Staffordshire...
, novelist (b. 1728) - September 23 - Thomas NowellThomas NowellThomas Nowell was an English clergyman, historian and religious controversialist.- Life :Nowell was the son of Cradock Nowell of Cardiff. He went up to Oriel College, Oxford in 1746 and in 1747 he won the Duke of Beaufort's exhibition. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1750, was...
, historian (b. c. 1730) - date unknown - Giovanni Andrea LazzariniGiovanni Andrea LazzariniGiovanni Andrea Lazzarini was an Italian painter, poet, and art historian of the late-Baroque or Rococo.He was born at Pesaro. He was instructed in painting by Francesco Mancini, and studied at Rome under Fantuzzi from 1734 to 1749, and worked subsequently at Venice and Forlì in a style recalling...
, painter, poet and art historian (b. 1710)