1811 in literature - Definition and Overview

See also: 1810 in literature, other events of 1811, 1812 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

New Books

• Ballad Romances, and Other Poems - Anna Maria Porter
• Barozzi - Catherine Smith
• The Caledonian Banditti - Catherine Smith
• Elfrida, Heiress of Belgrove - Emma Parker
• - Sarah Wigley
• - Thomas Pringle
• Michael Kohlhaas - Heinrich von Kleist
• The Mysterious Hand - Augustus Jacob Crandolpho
• The Necessity of Atheism - Percy Bysshe Shelley
• The Passions - Charlotte Dacre
• St. Irvyne - Percy Bysshe Shelley
• The Schoolmistress - Rachel Hunter
• Seabrook Village and Its Inhabitants - Sophia F Ziegenhirt
• Self-Control - Mary Brunton
• Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
• Stratagems Defeated - Mary Meeke
• Undine - Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué

Births

• January 9 - Gilbert Abbott a Beckett (+ 1856)
• February 1 - Arthur Henry Hallam, poet (+ 1833)
• February 19 - Jules Sandeau, French dramatist and novelist
• July 18 - William Makepeace Thackeray (+ 1863)
• August 31 - Theophile Gautier, poet, novelist (+ 1872)
• September 17 - August Blanche, Swedish writer, statesman (d. 1868)

Deaths

• January 10 - Joseph Chénier, poet and dramatist, brother of André Chénier
• May 7 - Richard Cumberland (dramatist)
• September 14 - James Grahame, poet
• September 30 - Bishop Thomas Percy, collector of Percy's Reliques
• November 21 - Heinrich von Kleist, poet

Awards