1814 in literature

See also: 1813 in literature, other events of 1814, 1815 in literature, list of years in literature.

Table of contents

1 Events 2 New Books 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Awards

Events

• In England, a revolutionary steam-powered press prints 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