See also: 1806 in literature, other events of 1807, 1808 in literature, list of years in literature.

Contents

1 Events 2 New Books 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Awards

Events

• John Wiley & Sons book publishing company founded.

New Books

• The Benevolent Monk - Theodore Melville
• The Castle Spectre - Sarah Wilkinson
• The Catholic - William Henry Ireland
• Constance de Lindensdorf - Sophia Frances
• Corinne - Anne Louise Germaine de Stael
• Count Eugenio - Harriet Butler
• The Demon of Sicily - Compton Mackenzie
• The Discarded Son - Regina Marie Roche
• Ellen: Heiress of the Castle - Mary Pilkington
• Family Annals - Rachel Hunter
• The Fatal Revenge - Charles Robert Maturin
• The Fugitive Countess - Sarah Wilkinson
• The Hungarian Brothers - Anna Maria Porter
• Julien - Mary Meeke
• Legends of a Nunnery - Compton Mackenzie
• Léopold de Circé - Cathérine F. de St-Venant
• The Libertine - Charlotte Dacre
• The Orphans of Snowdon - Elizabeth Gunning
• A Peep at our Ancestors - Henrietta Rouviere Mosse
• A Summer at Brighton - Mary Julia Young
• Tales from Shakespeare - Charles Lamb & Mary Lamb
• The Wood Daemon - Matthew Gregory Lewis

Births

• February 27 - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, poet (+ 1882)
• September 9 - Richard Chenevix Trench, poet
• October 30 - Christopher Wordsworth, Biblical editor and commentator, nephew of William Wordsworth
• Jónas Hallgrímsson, Icelandic author

Deaths

• December 19 - Friedrich Melchior, baron von Grimm, writer
• December 21 - John Newton, songwriter ("Amazing Grace")

Awards