1805 in literature

Events

• Friedrich Schiller introduces his new play, Wilhelm Tell[?]
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge appointed Acting Public Secretary in Malta

New Books

• The Bravo of Venice[?] - Matthew Gregory Lewis[?]
• The Child of the Abbey[?] - Sophia Woodfall[?]
• The Chronicles of Christabelle de Mowbray[?] - Elizabeth Helme[?]
• Confessions of the Nun of St. Omer[?] - Charlotte Dacre[?]
• Gondez the Monk[?] - William Henry Ireland[?]
• The Lay of the Last Minstrel[?] (poetry) - Sir Walter Scott
• The Modern Griselda[?] - Maria Edgeworth
• My Master's Secret[?] - R. P. M. Yorke[?]
• The Nuns of the Desert[?] - Eugenia de Acton[?]
• The Pilgrims of the Cross[?] - Elisabeth Helme[?]
• Rameau's Nephew[?] - Denis Diderot
• A Sailor's Friendship, and A Soldier's Love[?] - Anna Maria Porter[?]
• The Saracen[?] - Sophie Ristaud Cottin[?]
• Villa Nova[?] - Catherine Selden[?]
• The Witcheries of Craig Isaf[?] - William Frederick Williams[?]
• The Witches of Glenshiel[?] - Mary Julia Young[?]
• The Wonder of the Village[?] - Mary Meeke[?]

Births

• February 4 - William Harrison Ainsworth, novelist (+ 1882)
• April 2 - Hans Christian Andersen, writer (+ 1875)
• July 29 - Alexis de Tocqueville, writer (+ 1859)

Deaths

• May 9 - Friedrich Schiller, German playwright

Awards