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Overview of the events of 1800 in literature
Overview of the events of 1800 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1800 .
Events
January –
Maria Edgeworth 's first extended work of fiction,
Castle Rackrent ("an Hibernian Tale: Taken from Facts, and from the Manners of the Irish Squires, Before the Year 1782"), is published anonymously in London, variously regarded as the first
historical novel , the first regional novel in English, the first
Anglo-Irish novel, the first Big House novel, the first
saga novel and the first with an
unreliable narrator .
[1]
January 10 – The
Serampore Mission and Press is established in
Serampore (now part of
West Bengal ) India by Baptist missionaries
Joshua Marshman and
William Ward . The press will grow into the largest in Asia, printing books in nearly every Indian language.
[2]
March – English "ploughboy poet"
Robert Bloomfield 's The Farmer's Boy is published with engravings by
Thomas Bewick , selling over 25,000 copies in the next two years, with 15 editions by 1827 and a number of translations.
[3]
[4]
April 24 – The United States establishes the
Library of Congress .
June 14 –
Friedrich Schiller 's historical drama
Mary Stuart has its première in
Weimar .
September –
William Blake begins three years' residence in a cottage at
Felpham in Sussex to illustrate the works of
William Hayley ; here he begins work on his poem
Milton .
[5]
October 3 –
William and
Dorothy Wordsworth , walking near
Grasmere in the English
Lake District , encounter a
leech gatherer who inspires his poem "
Resolution and Independence ", first written 18 months later.
[6]
New books
Fiction
Children
François Guillaume Ducray-Duminil
Les Petits orphelins du hameau (The young orphans from the hamlet)
Paul, ou la Ferme abandonnée (Paul or the abandoned farmstead)
Edward Augustus Kendall
The Swallow: a fiction interspersed with poetry
The Stories of Senex; or little histories of little people
Drama
Non-fiction
Births
January 6 –
Anna Maria Hall , Irish novelist (died
1881 )
[7]
January 16 –
Robert Bell , Irish-born man of letters (died
1867 )
March 2 –
Yevgeny Baratynsky , Russian poet (died
1844 )
[8]
March 6 –
Gustava Kielland , author and missionary (died
1889 )
[9]
March 12 –
Louis Prosper Gachard , Belgian editor (died
1885 )
[10]
March 25 –
Alexis Paulin Paris , French editor of medieval manuscripts (died 1881)
April 17 –
Catherine Sinclair , Scottish novelist and children's writer (died
1864 )
May 5 –
Louis Christophe François Hachette , French publisher
Louis Christophe François Hachette , French publisher (d.
1864 )
[11]
May 8 –
Armand Carrel , French writer (died
1836 )
May 9 –
Samuel Carter Hall , English journalist (died
1889 )
[12]
October 18 – Sir
Henry Taylor , English dramatist and poet (died
1886 )
October 25
November 27 –
Fanny Kemble , English actress and writer (died
1893 )
unknown dates
Deaths
January 22 –
George Steevens , English Shakespearean commentator (born
1736 )
[13]
February 22 –
Joseph Warton , English academic and literary critic (born
1722 )
May -
Evan Hughes (Hughes Fawr), Welsh clergyman and author (year of birth unknown)
[14]
March 14 –
Daines Barrington , English lawyer, antiquary and naturalist (born
c. 1727 )
March 16 –
David Doig , Scottish educator and writer (born
1719 )
[15]
March 29 –
Marc René, marquis de Montalembert , French military engineer and writer (born
1714 )
[16]
April 25 –
William Cowper , English poet (born
1731 )
[17]
August 25 –
Elizabeth Montagu , English literary critic (born
1718 )
[18]
September 29 –
Michael Denis , Austrian poet (born
1729 )
[19]
December 26 –
Mary Robinson ("Perdita"), English poet, actress and royal mistress (born
1757 )
[20]
References
^ Kirkpatrick, Kathryn J. (1995). "Introduction to Castle Rackrent ". Oxford University Press.
^ Das, Sisir Kumar (2006). "A Chronology of Literary Events, 1800–1910". In A History of Indian Literature: Western Impact, Indian Response, 1800–1910 . Sahitya Akademi, 2006. Retrieved via Google Books, July 16, 2009.
^ Kaloustian, David (2004).
"Bloomfield, Robert (1766–1823)" .
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. Retrieved 2012-03-04 . (subscription or
UK public library membership required)
^ Cox, Michael, ed. (2004).
The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature . Oxford University Press.
ISBN
0-19-860634-6 .
^ William Blake (7 July 2008).
The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake . University of California Press. p. 711.
ISBN
978-0-520-25637-8 .
^
Sutherland, John ; Fender, Stephen (2011). "3 October". Love, Sex, Death & Words: Surprising Tales from a Year in Literature . London: Icon. pp. 375–6.
ISBN
978-184831-247-0 .
^ This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
public domain :
Boase, George Clement (1890). "
Hall, Anna Maria ". In
Stephen, Leslie ;
Lee, Sidney (eds.).
Dictionary of National Biography . Vol. 24. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
^
Chisholm, Hugh , ed. (1911).
"Baratynski, Jewgenij Abramovich" .
Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
^ Olsen, A. (1936). "Kielland, Gustava". In
Brøgger, A. W. ;
Jansen, Einar (eds.).
Norsk biografisk leksikon (in Norwegian). Vol. 7 (1st ed.). Oslo: Aschehoug. pp. 296–297.
^ This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
public domain :
Chisholm, Hugh , ed. (1911). "
Gachard, Louis Prosper ".
Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. 11 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 382.
^
Chisholm, Hugh , ed. (1911).
"Hachette, Louis Christophe François" .
Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. 12 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 793.
^
Boase, George Clement (1890).
"Hall, Samuel Carter" . In
Stephen, Leslie ;
Lee, Sidney (eds.).
Dictionary of National Biography . Vol. 24. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 88.
OCLC
2763972 .
^ This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
public domain :
Chisholm, Hugh , ed. (1911). "
Steevens, George ".
Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
^ Robert (Bob) Owen.
"Hughes, Evan ('Hughes Fawr'; died 1800), cleric and author" .
Dictionary of Welsh Biography .
National Library of Wales . Retrieved 5 February 2024 .
^
Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF) . The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006.
ISBN
0-902-198-84-X . Archived from
the original (PDF) on 24 January 2013. Retrieved 18 February 2016 .
^ Ripley, George; Dana, Charles A., eds. (1879).
"Montalembert. I. Marc René de, marquis" .
The American Cyclopædia .
^ Thomas Taylor (1841).
The Life of William Cowper, Esq . Key & Biddle. p. 259.
^ Schnorrenberg, Barbara Brandon. "Montagu, Elizabeth".
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press.
doi :
10.1093/ref:odnb/19014 . (Subscription or
UK public library membership required.)
^ This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
public domain :
Chisholm, Hugh , ed. (1911). "
Denis, Johann Nepomuk Cosmas Michael ".
Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
^
"Mary Darby Robinson (1758-1800)" . digital.library.upenn.edu . Retrieved May 8, 2019 .