1814 in literature - Definition and Overview

See also: 1813 in literature, other events of 1814, 1815 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

• In England, a revolutionary steam-powered press prints the Times newspaper at a rate of 1100 copies per hour.

New Books

• Alicia de Lacy — Jane West
• Auberry Stanhope — Jane Harvey
• The Castle of Strathmay — Honoria Scott
• Conscience — Mary Meeke
• Conviction — Anne Hatton
• Discipline — Mary Brunton
• Emily and Her Friends — Barbara Hofland
• — Jane Harvey
• The Excursion — William Wordsworth
• The Hypocrite — Selina Davenport
• Introduction to the Study of Bibliography — Thomas Hartwell Horne
• — Louisa Stanhope
• Mansfield Park — Jane Austen
• Patronage — Maria Edgeworth
• The Prison-House — Elizabeth Thomas
• The Recluse of Norway — Anna Maria Porter
• The Towers of Ravenswold — William Henry Hitchener
• Trecothick Bower — Regina Marie Roche
• The Wanderer — Fanny Burney
• Waverley — Sir Walter Scott

Births

• June 8 - Charles Reade, English writer (+ 1884)
• June 14 - Harriet Beecher Stowe (+ 1896)
• August 28 - Sheridan le Fanu, Irish writer (+ 1873)
• October 3 - Mikhail Lermontov, Russian poet (+ 1841)
• November 6 - William Wells Brown African-American writer (+ 1884)
• December 27 - Jules Simon, French philosopher

Deaths

• February 24 - Julien Louis Geoffroy, French literary critic.
• July 25 - Charles Dibdin, novelist, dramatist and actor
• December 2 - Marquis de Sade, pornographic author

Awards