Home > 1812 in literature

1 Events

• Series of lectures on drama and Shakespeare - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Frederick Marryat is promoted to lieutenant after distinguished service at sea in the War of 1812.

2 New Books

• The Absentee - Maria Edgeworth
• Arrivals from India - Henrietta Rouviere Mosse
• Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (poetry) - Lord Byron
• The Confessional of Valombre - Louisa Stanhope
• Declaration of Rights - Percy Shelley
• Emilie de Coulanges - Maria Edgeworth
• The Fortress del Vechii - Ann Hatton
• The Literary Anecdotes of the 18th Century, volume 1 - John Nichols
• The Loyalists: An Historical Novel - Jane West
• The Milesian Chief - Charles Robert Maturin
• The Swiss Family RobinsonThe Swiss Family Robinson is a novel about a Swiss family who are shipwrecked en route for Australia. Making for an island, they discover and develop all the necessaries for a good life showing incredible resourcefulness in adapting and utilising the isla - Johann David WyssJohann David Wyss ( Bern, March 4, 1743 1818) was a Swiss author, best remembered for his book The Swiss Family Robinson ( 1812), based on the Robinson Crusoe adventure by Daniel Defoe. The book was edited by his son, Johann Rudolf Wyss, a scholar who wro
• The Vindictive Spirit - Bridget Bluemantle
• VivianVivian is the name of several places in the United States: Vivian in Louisiana Vivian Township in Minnesota Vivian Township in North Dakota Vivian Township in South Dakota. - Maria Edgeworth

3 Births

• February 7February 7 is the 38th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 327 days remaining, 328 in leap years. Events 457 Leo I becomes emperor of the Byzantine Empire. 1301 Edward of Caernarvon (later King Edward II of England) becomes the first Prin - Charles DickensCharles John Huffam Dickens ( February 7, 1812 June 9, 1870), pen-name " Boz", was an English novelist of the Victorian era. The popularity of his books during his lifetime and to the present is demonstrated by the fact that none of his novels has ever go, EnglishEngland is the largest, the most populous, and the most densely populated of the four " Home Nations" which make up the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK). Occupying the south-eastern portion of the island of Great Britain, England writer (d. 1870Events January 6 The inauguration of the Musikverein ( Vienna). January 10 John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil January 15 A political cartoon for the first time symbolizes the United States Democratic Party with a donkey ("A Live Jackass Kicking)
• May 7 - Robert Browning, English poet (d. 1889)
• May 12 - Edward Lear English writer (d. 1888)
• June 18 - Ivan Goncharov Russian writer (d. 1891)
• July 5 - Antonio García Gutiérrez, Spanish dramatist (d. 1884)
• August 22 – Geraldine Jewsbury, British author (d. 1880)
• Zygmunt Krasinski, Polish poet