1821 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1821.
Events
- May – Percy Bysshe Shelley's Queen Mab: a philosophical poem (1813) is distributed by a pirate publisher in London, leading to prosecution by the Society for the Prevention of Vice.[1]
- August 4 – Atkinson & Alexander publish The Saturday Evening Post for the first time as a weekly newspaper in the United States.[2]
- unknown dates
- James Ballantyne begins publishing his Novelist's Library in Edinburgh edited by Sir Walter Scott.[3]
- In the first known obscenity case in the United States, a Massachusetts court outlaws the John Cleland novel Fanny Hill (1748). The publisher, Peter Holmes, is convicted of printing a "lewd and obscene" novel.[4]
- epic poem Phra Aphai Mani.[5]
New books
Fiction
- James Fenimore Cooper – The Spy
- Pierce Egan – Life in London; Boxiana Vol. III
- John Galt
- Annals of the Parish
- The Ayrshire Legatees
- Thomas Gaspey – Calthorpe
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years (Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre)
- Ann Hatton – Lovers and Friends
- Hannah Maria Jones – Gretna Green
- John Gibson Lockhart – Valerius
- Charles Nodier – Smarra
- Anna Maria Porter – The Village of Mariendorpt
- The Scottish Chiefs
- Sir Walter Scott – Kenilworth
Children
- Maria Hack – Harry Beaufoy; or the Pupil of Nature
- Thomas Love Peacock – Maid Marian
Drama
- John Banim and Richard Lalor Sheil – Damon and Pythias
- Lord Byron
- Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice (published & performed)
- Sardanapalus: a tragedy; The Two Foscari: a tragedy; Cain: a mystery (published together)
- Alfred Bunn –Kenilworth
- Barry Cornwall – Mirandola
- Alexandre-Vincent Pineux Duval – Le Faux Bonhomme
- Aleksander Fredro – Pan Geldhab (Mr. Gelhab)
- Franz Grillparzer – Das goldene Vliess (The Golden Fleece trilogy)
- James Haynes – Conscience
- Heinrich von Kleist (died 1811) – The Prince of Homburg (Prinz Friedrich von Homburg oder die Schlacht bei Fehrbellin, first performance, in abridged version as Die Schlacht von Fehrbellin; completed 1810)
Poetry
- Heinrich Heine – Poems
- Alessandro Manzoni – Il Cinque Maggio (May 5)
- Alexander Pushkin - The Gabrieliad
- Adonaïs
Non-fiction
- James Burney – An Essay, by Way of Lecture, on the Game of Whist
- Owen Chase – Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-Ship Essex[6]
- William Cobbett – The American Gardener[7]
- George Grote – Statement of the Question of Parliamentary Reform
- William Hazlitt – Table-Talk[8]
- James Mill – Elements of Political Economy
- Robert Owen – Report to the County of Lanark, of a plan for relieving public distress and removing discontent
- John Roberton– Kalogynomia, or the Laws of Female Beauty
- Robert Southey – Life of Cromwell
Births
- February 22 – Athalia Schwartz, Danish writer, journalist and educator (died 1871)[9]
- March 15 – William Milligan, Scottish theologian (died 1893)[10]
- March 19 – Richard Francis Burton, English polymath (died 1890)
- March 20 – Ned Buntline (Edward Zane Carroll Judson Sr.), American publisher, dime novelist and publicist (died 1886)[11]
- March 25 – Isabella Banks, English poet and novelist (died 1897)
- April 9 – Charles Baudelaire, French poet (died 1867)[12]
- May 8 – Charlotte Maria Tucker, English children's writer (died 1893)
- May 11 – Grigore Sturdza, Moldavian and Romanian adventurer, literary sponsor and philosopher (died 1901)
- June 30 – William Hepworth Dixon, English historian, traveler and journal editor (died 1879)
- October 30 – Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian novelist (died 1881)[13]
- Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov, Russian poet, writer and critic (died 1877)
- September 21 – Aurora Ljungstedt, Swedish horror writer (died 1908)
- September 24 – Cyprian Norwid Polish poet (died 1883)
- December 1 – Jane C. Bonar, Scottish hymnwriter (died 1884)[14]
- December 6 – Dora Greenwell, English poet (died 1882)
- December 12 – Gustave Flaubert, French novelist (died 1880)[15]
Deaths
- January 7 – Anne Hunter, Scottish poet and salonnière (born 1742)[16]
- January 14 – Jens Zetlitz, Norwegian poet (born 1761)
- February 23 – John Keats, English poet (tuberculosis, born 1795)[17]
- February 26 – Joseph de Maistre, Savoyard philosopher (born 1753)
- March 17 – Louis-Marcelin de Fontanes, French poet (born 1757)
- April 14 – Susan Carnegie, writer and founder of the first public asylum in Scotland (born 1743)[18]
- April 16 – Thomas Scott, English cleric and religious writer (born 1747)
- May 2 – Hester Thrale (Mrs Piozzi), English diarist and arts patron (born 1741)[19]
- May 21 – John Jones (Jac Glan-y-gors), Welsh poet and satirist (born 1766)[20]
- May 22 – Johann Georg Heinrich Feder, German philosopher (born 1740)
- June 15 – John Ballantyne, publisher (born 1774)[21]
- August 1 – Elizabeth Inchbald, English novelist and dramatist (born 1753)
- August 24 – John William Polidori, English physician, writer (born 1795) (suicide)[22]
- November 17 – James Burney, English rear-admiral and naval writer (born 1750)
- November – Richard Fenton, poet and author (born 1747)[23]
Awards
References
- ISBN 978-0-8262-6209-7.
- ^ Grace Greenwood (1857). The Little Pilgrim. L.K. Lippincott. p. 1.
- ^ "The Ballantyne Brothers". Walter Scott. Edinburgh University Library. 2007-12-11.
- ISBN 978-0-275-94127-7.
- ISBN 978-974-7903-41-6.
- ISBN 978-0-8195-6244-9
- ^ S. Clifford-Smith, "William Cobbett: cottager's friend", Australian Garden History, 19 (5), 2008, pp. 4–6.
- ^ "Review of Table Talk, or Original Essays by William Hazlitt". The Quarterly Review. 26: 103–108. October 1821.
- ^ Hilden, Adda. "Athalia Schwartz (1821–1871)". Dansk kvindebiografisk leksikon (in Danish). Archived from the original on 2018-03-13. Retrieved 15 August 2018.
- ^ Cooper, James (1901). . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography (1st supplement). London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- ^ Pond, Fred E. (1919). Life and Adventures of Ned Buntline. New York: Camdus Book Shop.
- ISBN 978-0-87923-462-1.
- ^ Morson, Gary Saul (7 November 2023). "Fyodor Dostoyevsky". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 12 September 2015.
- ^ Julian, John (1892). "BONAR, JANE CATHARINE (nee LUNDIE)". A Dictionary of Hymnology: Setting Forth the Origin and History of Christian Hymns of All Ages and Nations, with Special Reference to Those Contained in the Hymn Books of English-speaking Countries and Now in Common Use . (Public domain ed.). Murray. p. 162.
- ^ Gustave Flaubert (1980). The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857. Harvard University Press. p. 1.
- ^ Bettany, George Thomas (1891). . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 28. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- ^ "BBC - History - Historic Figures: John Keats (1795-1821)". bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 3 January 2017.
- OCLC 367680960.
- ISBN 978-0-415-92040-7.
- ISBN 978-0-7083-2134-8.
- ^ Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1885). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 3. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- PMID 14037964.
- ^ "Fenton, Richard". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 26 February 2018.