1806 in literature
See also: 1805 in literature, other events of 1806, 1807 in literature, list of years in literature.
Events Noah Webster publishes his first English dictionary.
New booksThe Anglo-Saxons - Leslie ArmstrongThe Castle of Tynemouth - Jane HarveyFeudal Tyrants - Matthew Gregory LewisThe Heirs of Villeroy - Henrietta Rouviere MosseLady Maclairn, The Victim of Villany - Rachel HunterLeonora - Maria EdgeworthMontbrasil Abbey - Louisa StanhopeThe Mysterious Freebooter - Francis LathomSanto Sebastiano - Catherine CuthbertsonThe Spanish Outlaw - William HerbertVensenshon - Harriet ButlerVivonio - Sophia FrancesThe Wild Irish Girl - Lady MorganZofloya - Charlotte Dacre
Births March 6 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, poet (+ 1861) April 17 - William Gilmore Simms, author (+ 1870) July 20 - John Sterling, author August 31 - Charles Lever, Anglo-Irish novelist (+ 1872)
Deaths February 12 - Gabriel-Henri Gaillard, French historian February 24 - Collin d'Harleville, French dramatist March 3 - Heinrich Christian Boie, German poet and editor April 4 - Carlo Gozzi, Venetian dramatist October 28 - Charlotte Turner Smith, poet and novelist November 23 - Sir Roger Newdigate, founder of the Newdigate prize
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