1818 in literature - Definition and Overview

See also: 1817 in literature, other events of 1818, 1819 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

• Lord Byron begins writing Don Juan
• Series of lectures on poetry, drama, philosophy - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

New Books

• An Angel's Form and a Devil's Heart - Selina Davenport
• The Bandit's Bride - Louisa Stanhope
• Endymion (poem) - John Keats
• Family Shakespeare - Thomas Bowdler
• - Anna Maria Porter
• Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
• The Friend - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• The Heart of Midlothian - Sir Walter Scott
• Marriage - Susan Edmonstoune Ferrier
• Nightmare Abbey - Thomas Love Peacock
• Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
• The Nun of Santa Maria di Tindaro - Louisa Stanhope
• Ozymandias - Percy Bysshe Shelley
• Persuasion - Jane Austen
• Rob Roy - Sir Walter Scott
• Sappho - Franz Grillparzer
• Secrets in Every Mansion - Anne Hatton
• The Veiled Protectress - Mary Meeke
• Woman, or Minor Maxims; a Sketch - Elizabeth Thomas

Births

• July 30 - Emily Brontë (+ 1848)
• November 9 - Ivan Turgenev (+ 1883)

Deaths

• Johann David Wyss, author

Awards