1821 in literature explained
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1821.
Events
New books
Fiction
Children
Drama
- The Two Foscari: a tragedy; Cain: a mystery (published together)
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
- February 22 – Athalia Schwartz, Danish writer, journalist and educator (died 1871)[9]
- March 15 – William Milligan, Scottish theologian (died 1893)[10]
- March 19 – Richard Francis Burton, English polymath (died 1890)
- March 20 – Ned Buntline (Edward Zane Carroll Judson Sr.), American publisher, dime novelist and publicist (died 1886)[11]
- March 25 – Isabella Banks, English poet and novelist (died 1897)
- April 9 – Charles Baudelaire, French poet (died 1867)[12]
- May 8 – Charlotte Maria Tucker, English children's writer (died 1893)
- May 11 – Grigore Sturdza, Moldavian and Romanian adventurer, literary sponsor and philosopher (died 1901)
- June 30 – William Hepworth Dixon, English historian, traveler and journal editor (died 1879)
- July 21 – Vasile Alecsandri, Romanian patriot, poet, dramatist, politician and diplomat (died 1890)
- October 30 – Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian novelist (died 1881)[13]
- November 28 – Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov, Russian poet, writer and critic (died 1877)
- September 21 – Aurora Ljungstedt, Swedish horror writer (died 1908)
- September 24 – Cyprian Norwid Polish poet (died 1883)
- December 1 – Jane C. Bonar, Scottish hymnwriter (died 1884)[14]
- December 6 – Dora Greenwell, English poet (died 1882)
- December 12 – Gustave Flaubert, French novelist (died 1880)[15]
Deaths
- January 7 – Anne Hunter, Scottish poet and salonnière (born 1742)[16]
- January 14 – Jens Zetlitz, Norwegian poet (born 1761)
- February 23 – John Keats, English poet (tuberculosis, born 1795)[17]
- February 26 – Joseph de Maistre, Savoyard philosopher (born 1753)
- March 17 – Louis-Marcelin de Fontanes, French poet (born 1757)
- April 14 – Susan Carnegie, writer and founder of the first public asylum in Scotland (born 1743)[18]
- April 16 – Thomas Scott, English cleric and religious writer (born 1747)
- May 2 – Hester Thrale (Mrs Piozzi), English diarist and arts patron (born 1741)[19]
- May 21 – John Jones (Jac Glan-y-gors), Welsh poet and satirist (born 1766)[20]
- May 22 – Johann Georg Heinrich Feder, German philosopher (born 1740)
- June 15 – John Ballantyne, publisher (born 1774)[21]
- August 1 – Elizabeth Inchbald, English novelist and dramatist (born 1753)
- August 24 – John William Polidori, English physician, writer (born 1795) (suicide)[22]
- November 17 – James Burney, English rear-admiral and naval writer (born 1750)
- November – Richard Fenton, poet and author (born 1747)[23]
Awards
Notes and References
- Book: Kim Wheatley. Shelley and His Readers: Beyond Paranoid Politics. 1999. University of Missouri Press. 978-0-8262-6209-7. 85.
- Book: Grace Greenwood. The Little Pilgrim. 1857. L.K. Lippincott. 1.
- Web site: The Ballantyne Brothers. Edinburgh University Library. Walter Scott. 2007-12-11.
- Book: Wayne C. Bartee. Alice Fleetwood Bartee. Litigating Morality: American Legal Thought and Its English Roots. 1992. Greenwood Publishing Group. 978-0-275-94127-7. 57.
- Book: Sunthō̜n Phū. Montri Umavijani. Sunthorn Phu: An Anthology. 1990. Office of National Culture Commission. 978-974-7903-41-6. 14.
- Thomas Farel Heffernan Stove by a Whale: Owen Chase and the Essex Wesleyan University Press 1990 pp. 120 - 134
- S. Clifford-Smith, "William Cobbett: cottager's friend", Australian Garden History, 19 (5), 2008, pp. 4–6.
- Review of Table Talk, or Original Essays by William Hazlitt. The Quarterly Review. October 1821. 26. 103–108.
- Web site: Hilden. Adda. Athalia Schwartz (1821–1871). live. 15 August 2018. Dansk kvindebiografisk leksikon. da. https://web.archive.org/web/20180313093021/http://www.kvinfo.dk/side/597/bio/1217/ . 2018-03-13 .
- Milligan, William. James. Cooper.
- Book: Pond, Fred E.. Life and Adventures of Ned Buntline. Camdus Book Shop. New York. 1919.
- Charles Baudelaire, Richard Howard. Les Fleurs Du Mal. David R. Godine Publisher, 1983, p.xxv., .
- Web site: Morson, Gary Saul . 7 November 2023 . Fyodor Dostoyevsky . Encyclopædia Britannica . 12 September 2015 .
- Book: Julian, John. A Dictionary of Hymnology: Setting Forth the Origin and History of Christian Hymns of All Ages and Nations, with Special Reference to Those Contained in the Hymn Books of English-speaking Countries and Now in Common Use ... Public domain. 1892. Murray . BONAR, JANE CATHARINE (nee LUNDIE) . 162.
- Book: Gustave Flaubert. The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857. Harvard University Press. 1980. 1.
- Hunter, Anne. Bettany. George Thomas. George Thomas Bettany. 28.
- Web site: BBC - History - Historic Figures: John Keats (1795-1821). bbc.co.uk. 3 January 2017.
- Book: The biographical dictionary of Scottish women : from the earliest times to 2004. 2006. Edinburgh University Press . Elizabeth Ewan . Sue Innes . Sian Reynolds. 978-0-7486-2660-1. Edinburgh. 67–8. 367680960.
- Book: Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie. Joy Dorothy Harvey. Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie. Joy Harvey. The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: L-Z. 2000. Taylor & Francis. 978-0-415-92040-7. 1026.
- Book: Iolo Morganwg. Geraint H. Jenkins. Ffion Mair Jones. The Correspondence of Iolo Morganwg: 1810–1826. 2007. University of Wales Press. 978-0-7083-2134-8. 616.
- Ballantyne, John (1774-1821). 3.
- Viets. Henry R.. 1961. "By The Visitation Of God": The Death Of John William Polidori, M.D., In 1821. The British Medical Journal. 2. 5269. 1773–1775. 10.1136/bmj.2.5269.1773. 20356143. 14037964. 1970869. 0007-1447.
- s-FENT-RIC-1747. Fenton, Richard. 26 February 2018.