1814 in literature

Events

• In England, a revolutionary steam-powered press prints the The Times newspaper at a rate of 1100 copies per hour.

New Books

• Alicia de Lacy[?] - Jane West[?]
• Auberry Stanhope[?] - Jane Harvey[?]
• The Castle of Strathmay[?] - Honoria Scott[?]
• Conscience[?] - Mary Meeke[?]
• Conviction[?] - Anne Hatton[?]
• Discipline[?] - Mary Brunton[?]
• Emily and Her Friends[?] - Barbara Hofland[?]
• Ethelia: a Tale[?] - Jane Harvey[?]
• The Excursion[?] - William Wordsworth
• The Hypocrite[?] - Selina Davenport[?]
• Madelina: A Tale Founded on Facts[?] - Louisa Stanhope[?]
• Manga - Katsushika Hokusai[?]
• Mansfield Park - Jane Austen
• Patronage[?] - Maria Edgeworth
• The Prison-House[?] - Elizabeth Thomas[?]
• The Recluse of Norway[?] - Anna Maria Porter[?]
• The Towers of Ravenswold[?] - William Henry Hitchener[?]
• Trecothick Bower[?] - Regina Marie Roche[?]
• The Wanderer[?] - Fanny Burney
• Waverley - Sir Walter Scott

Births

• June 8 - Charles Reade, English writer (+ 1884)
• June 14 - Harriet Beecher Stowe (+ 1896)
• August 28 - Sheridan le Fanu, Irish writer (+ 1873)
• October 3 - Mikhail Lermontov, Russian poet (+ 1841)
• November 6 - William Wells Brown[?] African-American writer (+ 1884)

Deaths

• December 2 - Marquis de Sade, pornographic author

Awards