1805 in literature
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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1805.
Contents
Events
- January–September - Samuel Taylor Coleridge serves as Acting Public Secretary in Malta.
- Early - Jacob Grimm is invited to Paris as an assistant to Friedrich Karl von Savigny.
- New Theatre Royal, Bath, opens in England, replacing the Old Orchard Street Theatre.
- Henry Thomas Colebrooke makes the first translation into English of the Aitareya Upanishad.
New books
- Eugenia de Acton - The Nuns of the Desert
- Sophie Ristaud Cottin - Mathilde (translated as "The Saracen; or Matilda and Malek Adhel: A Crusade Romance")
- Charlotte Dacre - Confessions of the Nun of St. Omer
- Robert Charles Dallas - The Morlands
- Maria Edgeworth - The Modern Griselda
- Jean-Baptiste Cousin de Grainville - Le Dernier Homme
- Elizabeth Helme:
- William Henry Ireland - Gondez the Monk
- Matthew Gregory Lewis - The Bravo of Venice
- Mary Meeke - The Wonder of the Village
- Anna Maria Porter - A Sailor's Friendship, and A Soldier's Love
- Catherine Selden - Villa Nova
- Richard Sickelmore – Rashleigh Abbey
- William Frederick Williams - The Witcheries of Craig Isaf
- Sophia Woodfall - The Child of the Abbey
- R. P. M. Yorke - My Master's Secret
- Mary Julia Young - The Witches of Glenshiel
New drama
- Alexandre-Vincent Pineux Duval - Le Menuisier de Livonie
- Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger - Hakon Jarl
Poetry
- Ivan Pnin - God
- Walter Scott - The Lay of the Last Minstrel
- Martin Archer Shee - Rhymes on Art
- Robert Southey - Madoc
Non-fiction
- Hosea Ballou - A Treatise on Atonement
- Henry Thomas Colebrooke
- Denis Diderot (posthumously) - Rameau's Nephew (in a German translation by Goethe)
- William Henry Ireland - The Confessions of William Henry Ireland
- Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool - Treatise on the Coins of the Realm
- Ellis Cornelia Knight - Description of Latium or La Campagna di Roma
- Jane Marcet (anonymously) - Conversations on Chemistry[1]
- Mercy Otis Warren - History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution
Births
- February 4 – William Harrison Ainsworth, English historical novelist (died 1882)
- April 2 – Hans Christian Andersen, Danish writer (died 1875)
- July 29 – Alexis de Tocqueville, French writer (died 1859)
- August 29 – F. D. Maurice, English theologian and novelist (died 1872)
- September 19 – John Stevens Cabot Abbott, American historian (died 1877)
- December 23 – Joseph Smith, American founder and prophet of the Latter Day Saint movement (killed 1844)
Deaths
- February 24 – Ralph Broome, English pamphleteer (born 1742)
- March 29 – Jean Elliot, Scottish poet (born 1727)
- May 9 – Friedrich Schiller, German playwright (born 1759)
- May 25 – William Paley, English philosopher (born 1743)
- June 18 – Arthur Murphy (Charles Ranger), Irish writer (born 1727)
- July 27 – Brian Merriman (Brian Mac Giolla Meidhre), Irish-language poet (born c. 1749)
- August 3 – Christopher Anstey, English poet (born 1724)
- September 3 – Johann Martin Abele, German publisher (born 1753)
- Unknown date – Anna Hammar-Rosén, Swedish publisher (born 1735)
In literature
- Benito Pérez Galdós' novel Trafalgar (1872) is set at this time.
- Leo Tolstoy's novel War and Peace (1869), entitled The Year 1805 in an earlier version, opens in this year.
References
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