1819 in literature - Definition

See also: 1818 in literature, other events of 1819, 1820 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

• In England, Richard Carlile (1790-1843) is convicted of blasphemy and sent to prison for publishing Age of Reason by Thomas Paine (1737-1809).

• In the United States, between 1819 and 1820, Washington Irving publishes his novel The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon that includes the stories The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip van Winkle.

New Books

• Any Thing But What You Expect - Jane Harvey
• The Black Robber - Edward Ball
• The Bride of Lammermoor - Sir Walter Scott
• A Classical Tour through Italy and Sicily - Richard Colt Hoare
• Il Conte di Carmagnola (play) - Alessandro Manzoni
• The Oath of Vengeance - Anne Hatton
• Odes (poetry) - John Keats
• The Recluse of Albyn Hall - Zara Wentworth
• The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon - Washington Irving
• The Son of O'Donnel - Rosalia St. Clair
• Specimens of the British Poets - Thomas Campbell
• The Vampyre - John William Polidori
• The Veiled Protectress - Mary Meeke

Births

• January 1 - Arthur Hugh Clough, poet (+ 1861)
• February 22 - James Russell Lowell, poet (+ 1891)
• May 31 - Walt Whitman, poet (+ 1892)
• August 1 - Herman Melville (+ 1891)
• November 22 - George Eliot (+ 1880)
• December 30 - Theodor Fontane

Deaths

Awards