1812 in literature

Table of contents

1 Events 2 New Books 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Awards

Events

• Series of lectures on drama and Shakespeare - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

• 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 Loyalists: An Historical Novel - Jane West
• The Milesian Chief - Charles Robert Maturin
• The Swiss Family Robinson - Johann David Wyss
• The Vindictive Spirit - Bridget Bluemantle
• Vivian - Maria Edgeworth

• February 7 - Charles Dickens, English writer (+ 1870)
• May 7 - Robert Browning, English poet (+ 1889)
• May 12 - Edward Lear English writer (+ 1888)
• June 18 - Ivan Goncharov Russian writer (+ 1891)