1801 in literature - Definition

See also: 1800 in literature, other events of 1801, 1802 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

New Books

• Atala - François-René de Chateaubriand
• The Confession - Agnes Musgrave
• The Dream - Robert Evans
• The Fatal Secret - Sophia King
• The Fugitive of the Forest - Maria Lavinia Smith
• The Haunted Palace - R.P.M. Yorke
• Letitia - Rachel Hunter
• Life of David Garrick - Arthur Murphy
• Lyrical Ballads (2nd edition) - William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• The Pirate of Naples - Mary Charlton
• Ruthinglenne - Isabella Kelly
• St. Margaret's Cave - Elisabeth Helme
• Terror of Bohemia - J.H. Sarratt
• Which is the Man - Mary Meeke
• The Wizard and the Sword - Henry Summersett

Births

• February 16 - Frederic Madden, palaeographer
• March 4 - Karl Rudolf Hagenbach, historian
• March 15 - George Perkins Marsh, philologist
• August 10 - Christian Hermann Weisse, philosopher
• September 4 - Alfred Guillaume Gabriel, Count D'Orsay, wit
• November 3 - Karl Baedeker, publisher
• November 10 - Vladimir Dal, lexicographer
• November 22 - Abraham Hayward
• November 24 - Ludwig Bechstein
• December 4 - Karl Ludwig Michelet, philosopher
• December 11 - Christian Dietrich Grabbe, dramatist

Deaths

• March 25 - Novalis, German poet
• April 11 - Antoine de Rivarol
• September 1 - Robert Bage, novelist

Awards