1801 in literature
See also: 1800 in literature, other events of 1801, 1802 in literature, list of years in literature.
Events
New booksAtala - François-René de ChateaubriandThe Confession - Agnes MusgraveThe Dream - Robert EvansThe Fatal Secret - Sophia KingThe Fugitive of the Forest - Maria Lavinia SmithThe Haunted Palace - R.P.M. YorkeLetitia - Rachel HunterLife of David Garrick - Arthur MurphyLyrical Ballads (2nd edition) - William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor ColeridgeThe Pirate of Naples - Mary CharltonRuthinglenne - Isabella KellySt. Margaret's Cave - Elisabeth Helme Terror of Bohemia - J.H. SarrattWhich is the Man - Mary MeekeThe Wizard and the Sword - Henry Summersett
New dramaDie Jungfrau von Orleans - Friedrich von Schiller
Births February 16 - Frederic Madden, palaeographer February 21 - John Henry Newman, Catholic writer March 4 - Karl Rudolf Hagenbach, historian March 15 - George Perkins Marsh, philologist August 10 - Christian Hermann Weisse, philosopher September 4 - Alfred Guillaume Gabriel, Count D'Orsay, wit November 3 - Karl Baedeker, publisher November 10 - Vladimir Dal, lexicographer November 22 - Abraham Hayward November 24 - Ludwig Bechstein December 4 - Karl Ludwig Michelet, philosopher December 11 - Christian Dietrich Grabbe, dramatist
Deaths March 25 - Novalis, German poet April 11 - Antoine de Rivarol September 1 - Robert Bage, novelist
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