1815 in literature - Definition and Overview

See also: 1814 in literature, other events of 1815, 1816 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

• The Brothers Grimm complete the writing of Grimms' Fairy Tales

New Books

• Adolphe - Benjamin Constant
• The Baron of Falconberg - Elizabeth Thomas
• - Catherine Smith
• The Brothers, or Consequences - Mary Hays
• The Devil's Elixir - Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann
• Edinburg; a Novel - Regina Marie Roche
• A Father as He Should Be - Barbara Hofland
• The Fugitive - Sarah Green
• Guy Mannering - Sir Walter Scott
• The Life and Death of Cardinal Wolsey - George Cavendish
• The Pastor's Fireside - Jane Porter
• The Rock of Glotzden - Anne Hatton
• Secret Avengers - Ann Hatton
• The Spanish Campaign - Mary Meeke
• The Unfortunate Choice - Mary Pilkington
• The Victims of Seduction - Elizabeth Gunning

Births

• April 24 - Anthony Trollope (+ 1882)
• May 5 - Eugène Marin Labiche

Deaths

• November 11 - Pierre-Louis Ginguené

Awards