1818 in literature

Events

• Lord Byron begins writing Don Juan
• Series of lectures on poetry, drama, philosophy - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

New Books

• An Angel's Form and a Devil's Heart[?] - Selina Davenport[?]
• The Bandit's Bride[?] - Louisa Stanhope[?]
• Endymion (poem) - John Keats
• The Fast of St. Magdalen: A Romance[?] - Anna Maria Porter[?]
• Frankenstein - Mary Shelly
• The Friend[?] - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• The Heart of Midlothian[?] - Sir Walter Scott
• Marriage - Susan Ferrier[?]
• Nightmare Abbey[?] - Thomas Love Peacock
• Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
• The Nun of Santa Maria di Tindaro[?] - Louisa Stanhope[?]
• Persuasion - Jane Austen
• Rob Roy - Sir Walter Scott
• Secrets in Every Mansion[?] - Anne Hatton[?]
• The Veiled Protectress[?] - Mary Meeke[?]
• Woman, or Minor Maxims; a Sketch[?] - Elizabeth Thomas[?]

Births

• July 30 - Emily Bronte (+ 1848)
• November 9 - Ivan Turgenev (+ 1883)

Deaths

• Johann David Wyss, author

Awards