1806 in literature

1806 in literature

Events

* Noah Webster publishes his first English dictionary.

New books

*Harriet Butler - "Vensenshon"
*Catherine Cuthbertson - "Santo Sebastiano"
*Charlotte Dacre - "Zofloya"
*Maria Edgeworth - "Leonora"
*Sophia Frances - "Vivonio"
*William Herbert -"The Spanish Outlaw"
* Rachel Hunter -"Lady Maclairn, The Victim of Villany"
*Francis Lathom - "The Mysterious Freebooter"
*Matthew Gregory Lewis - "Feudal Tyrants"
*Lady Morgan - "The Wild Irish Girl"
*Henrietta Rouviere Mosse - "The Heirs of Villeroy"
*Louisa Stanhope - "Montbrasil Abbey"

New drama

*Heinrich von Kleist - "Der zerbrochene Krug"
*Leandro Fernández de Moratín - "El sí de las niñas"

Poetry

*Jane & Ann Taylor - "Rhymes for the Nursery"

Non-fiction

*J. C. Adelung - "Mithridates, a History of Language and Dialects"
*Johann Gottlieb Fichte - "Bericht über die Wissenschaftslehre"
*James Madison - "An Examination of the British Doctrine which Subjects to Capture a Neutral Trade not Open in Time of Peace"

Births

*February 1 - Jane Williams (Ysgafell), poet, folklorist and historian (d. 1885)
* March 6 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, poet (d. 1861)
* April 17 - William Gilmore Simms, author (d. 1870)
* May 20 - John Stuart Mill, philosopher (d. 1873)
* July 20 - John Sterling, author (d. 1844)
* August 31 - Charles Lever, Anglo-Irish novelist (d. 1872)

Deaths

* February 12 - Gabriel-Henri Gaillard, French historian
* February 24 - Collin d'Harleville, French dramatist
* March 3 - Heinrich Christian Boie, German poet and editor
* April 4 - Carlo Gozzi, Venetian dramatist
*October 19 - Henry Kirke White, poet
* October 28 - Charlotte Turner Smith, poet and novelist
* November 23 - Sir Roger Newdigate, founder of the Newdigate prize

Awards

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