1812 in literature - Definition and Overview

See also: 1811 in literature, other events of 1812, 1813 in literature, list of years in literature.

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.

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

Births

• February 7 - Charles Dickens, English writer (d. 1870)
• 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 Krasiński, Polish poet

Deaths

• November 16 - John Walter, founder of The Times newspaper
• December 22 - Pierre Henri Larcher, classical scholar

Awards