Overview of the events of 1815 in literature
Overview of the events of 1815 in literature
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1815 .
First issue of the North American Review with signature of its editor William Tudor . January 2 – Lord Byron marries Anna Isabella Milbanke at Seaham , County Durham . April 7 – Lord Byron and Walter Scott meet for the first time, in the offices of publisher John Murray , 50 Albemarle Street in London.[1] May – First publication of the North American Review . June 15 – The Duchess of Richmond's ball is held in Brussels on the night before the Battle of Quatre Bras (and three nights before the Battle of Waterloo ) by Charlotte, Duchess of Richmond for her son, the writer Lord William Lennox . It subsequently features in literary works by Lord Byron , William Makepeace Thackeray , Charles Lever , Georgette Heyer , Bernard Cornwell and Julian Fellowes .[2] [3] December 23 Thomas Love Peacock 's first novel Headlong Hall is published anonymously by Thomas Hookham in London, dated 1816.[6] First complete publication of the Old English epic poem Beowulf , in a Latin translation by Icelandic-Danish scholar Grímur Jónsson Thorkelin . The second volume of the first edition of the Brothers Grimm 's Grimms' Fairy Tales is dated this year but published late in 1814 . New books [ edit ] Fiction [ edit ] Children and young people [ edit ] Non-fiction [ edit ] January 7 – E. Louisa Mather , American writer (died 1882 ) February 19 – Elizabeth Missing Sewell , English novelist and educationist (died 1906 ) April 24 – Anthony Trollope , English novelist (died 1882 )[9] April 25 – Richard William Church , English biographer and cleric (died 1890 ) May 5 – Eugène Marin Labiche , French dramatist (died 1888 ) July 17 – Thekla Knös , Swedish poet (died 1880 ) August 1 – Marițica Bibescu , Wallachian poet and literary patron (died 1859 ) October 4 – Franz Jakob Clemens , German philosopher (died 1862 ) November 5 – Martins Pena , Brazilian dramatist (died 1848 ) November 17 – Eliza Farnham , American novelist and reformer (died 1864 ) December 10 – Augusta Ada King (née Byron), Countess of Lovelace , English mathematician and writer on computing (died 1852 ) December 20 – James Legge , Scottish sinologist, missionary and translator (died 1897 ) unknown date – Meenakshi Sundaram Pillai , Tamil scholar and poet (died 1876 ) January 21 – Matthias Claudius (Asmus), German poet (born 1740 ) January 30 – Hans Christian Amberg , Danish lexicographer (born 1749 )[10] March 4 – Frances Abington , née Barton, English actress (born 1737 )[11] April 13 – Thomas Bayly Howell , English legal writer (born 1767 ) September 13 – Mihály Gáber , Slovene writer in Hungary (born c. 1753) November 2 – Gottlieb Christoph Harless , German bibliographer (born 1738 ) November 11 – Pierre-Louis Ginguené , French writer and critic (born 1748 ) November 17 – Dorothea Viehmann , German fairy-story teller (born 1755 ) December 20 – Giovanni Meli , Sicilian poet (born 1740 )[12] December 23 – Jan Potocki , Polish polymath (born 1761 ) References [ edit ] ^ "The Byron Chronology, 1814–1816" . Romantic Circles . University of Maryland. Retrieved 2013-11-21 . ^ Sutherland, John ; Fender, Stephen (2011). "15 June". Love, Sex, Death & Words: surprising tales from a year in literature . London: Icon. pp. 228–9. ISBN 978-184831-247-0 . ^ Longford, Elizabeth (1986). "194" . In Hastings, Max (ed.). The Oxford Book of Military Anecdotes . pp. 230–234. ISBN 978-0-19-520528-2 . ^ Advertisement in The Morning Chronicle 25 December 1815 p. 1. ^ Howe, Justin (2009-03-10). "Jan Potocki and the Manuscript Found in Saragossa" . Tor.com . Retrieved 2018-11-30 . ^ Garnett, Richard (1911). "Peacock, Thomas Love" . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. 21 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 21–22. ^ Hahn, Daniel (2015). The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (2nd ed.). Oxford. University Press. p. 3. ISBN 9780198715542 . ^ "The History of Persia, from the Most Early Period to the Present Time" . World Digital Library . 1815. Retrieved 2013-10-02 . ^ Garnett, Richard (1899). "Trollope, Anthony" . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography . Vol. 57. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 238–242. ^ Nissen, C. A. (1887). "Amberg, Hans Christian" . In Bricka, Carl Frederik (ed.). Dansk biografisk lexikon (in Danish). Vol. 1. Copenhagen: Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag. pp. 193–194. Retrieved 7 November 2009 . ^ Highfill, Philip H.; Burnim, Kalman; Langhans, Edward (1973). A biographical dictionary of actors, actresses, musicians, dancers, managers & other stage personnel in London, 1660-1800. Vol. 1, Abaco to Belfille . Carbondale, Ill.: Southern Illinois University Press. pp. 12–20. ISBN 0809305178 . Retrieved 19 November 2021 . ^ Warner, Charles Dudley. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern. United States: J. A. Hill, 1902. Page 377