1812 in literature

Events

• Series of lectures on drama and Shakespeare - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

New Books

• The Absentee - Maria Edgeworth
• Arrivals from India[?] - Henrietta Rouviere Mosse[?]
• Childe Harold's Pilgrimage[?] (poetry) - Lord Byron
• The Confessional of Valombre[?] - Louisa Stanhope[?]
• Declaration of Rights[?] - Percy Shelley[?]
• Emilie de Coulanges[?] - Maria Edgeworth
• The Fortress del Vechii[?] - Ann Hatton[?]
• The Loyalists: An Historical Novel[?] - Jane West[?]
• The Milesian Chief[?] - Charles Robert Maturin[?]
• The Swiss Family Robinson[?] - Johann David Wyss
• The Vindictive Spirit[?] - Bridget Bluemantle[?]
• Vivian[?] - Maria Edgeworth

Births

• February 7 - Charles Dickens (+ 1870)
• May 7 - Robert Browning, poet (+ 1889)
• May 12 - Edward Lear (+ 1888)
• June 18 - Ivan Goncharov[?] (+ 1891)

Deaths

Awards