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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1812.

Events

January 2 – Samuel Taylor Coleridge's lecture on Hamlet is given as part of a series of lectures on drama and Shakespeare; it has influenced Hamlet studies ever since.^[1]
January 15 – Lord Byron takes his seat in the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
March 20 – First two cantos of Byron's poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage are published in London by John Murray.^[2] This sells out in five days, giving rise to Byron's comment "I awoke one morning and found myself famous."^[3]
May–July – The library of the Duke of Roxburghe (died 1804) is auctioned in London. On June 17 a presumed first edition of Boccaccio's Decameron, printed by Christopher Valdarfer of Venice in 1471, is sold to the Marquis of Blandford for £2,260, the highest price ever given for a book at that time. This is followed by a social meeting of bibliophiles under the chairmanship of 2nd Earl Spencer, the origin of the Roxburghe Club, formed by Thomas Frognall Dibdin.
June 24–December 14 – The French invasion of Russia will form the climax of Tolstoy's 1869 novel War and Peace and feature several other works of literature.
October 10 – The rebuilt Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in London opens.
December 9–20 – Leigh Hunt is tried and convicted of libel for calling the Prince Regent "a violator of his word, a libertine over head and ears in debt and disgrace" in The Examiner on March 22.^[4]
December 26 – Novelist Frederick Marryat is promoted to lieutenant after distinguished service at sea in the War of 1812.^[5]

New books

Fiction

Sarah Burney – Traits of Nature^[6]
Maria Edgeworth:^[7]
- The Absentee
- Emilie de Coulanges
- Vivian
Jean-Baptiste Benoît Eyriès – Fantasmagoriana
The Brothers Grimm – Grimm's Fairy Tales, volume 1 (Kinder- und Hausmärchen)
Ann Hatton – The Fortress del Vechii^[8]
Frances Margaretta Jacson (misascribed to Mary Brunton) – Things by their Right Names
Charles Maturin – The Milesian Chief
Rebecca Rush – Kelroy^[9]
George Soane – The Eve of San Marco
Louisa Stanhope – The Confessional of Valombre
Elizabeth Thomas – The Vindictive Spirit
Jane West – The Loyalists: An Historical Novel

Children and young people

Barbara Hofland – The History of a Clergyman's Widow and Her Young Family^[10]
Johann David Wyss – The Swiss Family Robinson

Drama

Joanna Baillie – Orra
Theodor Körner
- Die Braut (The Bride)
- Der grüne Domino (The Green Domino)^[11]
- Der Nachtwächter (The Night Watchman)
- Zriny^[12]
Adam Oehlenschläger – Stærkodder
August von Kotzebue – Der arme Poet (The Poor Poet)

Poetry

Anna Laetitia Barbauld – Eighteen Hundred and Eleven
Lord Byron – Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Percy Bysshe Shelley – The Devil's Walk: A Ballad
James and Horace Smith (anonymously) – Rejected Addresses
William Tennant – Anster Fair

Non-fiction

John Galt – Cursory Reflections on Political and Commercial Topics^[13]
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel – Die objektive Logik^[14]
Sir Richard Colt Hoare – The Ancient History of South Wiltshire
Mirza Abu Taleb Khan – Masir Talib fi Bilad Afranji (The Travels of Taleb in the Regions of Europe)
James Maitland, 8th Earl of Lauderdale – The Depreciation of the Paper-currency of Great Britain Proved
John Nichols – The Literary Anecdotes of the 18th Century, volume 1
Percy Bysshe Shelley – Declaration of Rights

Births

February 7 – Charles Dickens, English novelist and editor (died 1870)^[15]
February 15 – Chandos Wren-Hoskyns (Chandos Hoskyns), English agricultural author and landowner (died 1876)
February 19 – Zygmunt Krasiński, Polish poet (died 1859)
May 7 – Robert Browning, English poet (died 1889)^[16]
May 12 – Edward Lear, English nonsense poet, caricaturist and painter (died 1888)^[17]
June 9 – Camilla Dufour Crosland, English writer and poet (died 1895)
June 18 – Ivan Goncharov, Russian novelist and critic (died 1891)
June 27 – Andrei Mocioni, Hungarian/Romanian journalist and literary patron (died 1880)
July 5 – Antonio García Gutiérrez, Spanish dramatist (died 1884)
August 22 – Geraldine Jewsbury, English novelist and woman of letters (died 1880)
September 16 – Anna Louisa Geertruida Bosboom-Toussaint, Dutch novelist (died 1886)^[18]
October 29 – Louise Granberg, Swedish playwright (died 1907)^[19]
December 3 – Hendrik Conscience, Flemish novelist (died 1883)
December 10 – Caroline M. Sawyer, American poet, writer, and editor (died 1894)
December 23 – Samuel Smiles, Scottish self-help author (died 1904)
unknown date
- Louis du Couret, French explorer, military officer, and writer (died 1867)^[20]
- Mohan Lal Kashmiri, Indian traveller and writer (died 1877)

Deaths

February 13 – Jacques Marie Boutet, French dramatist and actor (born 1745)
February 24 – Hugo Kołłątaj, Polish historian and philosopher (born 1750)
March 18 – John Horne Tooke, English controversialist and cleric (born 1736)^[21]
March 24 – Johann Jakob Griesbach, German Biblical commentator (born 1745)
May 12 – Martha Ballard, American diarist (born c. 1734)
July 14 – Christian Gottlob Heyne, German librarian and classicist (born 1729)
October 28 – Susanna Duncombe, English poet and painter (born 1725)
November 11 – Platon Levshin, Russian church historian (born 1737)
November 16 – John Walter, English founder of The Times, London (born c. 1738)
December 22 – Pierre Henri Larcher, French classicist and archeologist (born 1726)
unknown date – Zalkind Hourwitz, Polish essayist (born 1738)^[22]

References

^ John Worthen (2 September 2010). The Cambridge Introduction to Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Cambridge University Press. p. 91. ISBN 978-0-521-76282-3.
^ Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 240–241. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
^ Spengler-Axiopoulos, Barbara (2006-07-01), Der skeptische Kosmopolit (in German), NZZ, archived from the original on 2012-03-18, retrieved 2013-04-11
^ Roe, Nicholas (2004). "Hunt, (James Henry) Leigh (1784–1859)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/14195. Retrieved 2013-12-02. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
^ Florence Marryat (1872). Life and Letters of Captain Marryat. D. Appleton. pp. 73.
^ Sarah Harriet Burney (1997). The Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney. University of Georgia Press. p. 159. ISBN 978-0-8203-1746-5.
^ Maria Edgeworth (18 November 2013). Delphi Complete Novels of Maria Edgeworth (Illustrated). Delphi Classics. p. 5697. GGKEY:5Y2D7748AQ4.
^ Diane Long Hoeveler (15 May 2014). The Gothic Ideology: Religious Hysteria and Anti-Catholicism in British Popular Fiction, 1780-1880. University of Wales Press. p. 330. ISBN 978-1-78316-049-5.
^ Gregg Crane (25 October 2007). The Cambridge Introduction to The Nineteenth-Century American Novel. Cambridge University Press. p. 17. ISBN 978-1-139-46565-6.
^ Garside, Peter; Parrinder, Patrick; O'Brien, Karen (2015). The Oxford History of the Novel in English. Oxford University Press. p. 263. ISBN 978-0-19-957480-3.
^ Wilhelm Kühlmann (4 September 2009). Huh – Kräf (in German). Walter de Gruyter. p. 575. ISBN 978-3-11-021394-2.
^ Marcel Cornis-Pope; John Neubauer (1 January 2004). History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe: Junctures and Disjunctures in the 19th and 20th Centuries. John Benjamins Publishing. p. 519. ISBN 90-272-3452-3.
^ The Quarterly Review. Murray. 1819. p. 475.
^ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1812). Gesammelte Werke: Die objektive logik (1812. F. Meiner.
^ Frank T. (Frank Thomas) Marzials (7 February 2012). Life of Charles Dickens. tredition. p. 214. ISBN 978-3-8472-0702-3.
^ Harold Bloom (2009). Robert Browning. Infobase Publishing. p. 12. ISBN 978-1-4381-1582-5.
^ John Lehmann (1977). Edward Lear and his World. p. 10.
^ Van Gemert, Lia (2011). Women's Writing from the Low Countries 1200-1875: A Bilingual Anthology. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. p. 528. ISBN 978-9-08964-129-8.
^ "Litteraturbanken | Svenska klassiker som e-bok och epub". litteraturbanken.se. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
^ Life in the Desert, or, Recollections of Travel in Asia and Africa. 1860. Retrieved 2013-09-23 – via World Digital Library.
^ This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Courtney, William Prideaux (1911). "Tooke, John Horne". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 27 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 13–14.
^ Albrecht Scholz; Caris-Petra Heidel (2000). Sozialpolitik und Judentum (in German). Union Druckerei. p. 17.

[1] John Worthen (2 September 2010). The Cambridge Introduction to Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Cambridge University Press. p. 91. ISBN 978-0-521-76282-3.

[CBH-2] Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 240–241. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.

[3] Spengler-Axiopoulos, Barbara (2006-07-01), Der skeptische Kosmopolit (in German), NZZ, archived from the original on 2012-03-18, retrieved 2013-04-11

[4] Roe, Nicholas (2004). "Hunt, (James Henry) Leigh (1784–1859)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/14195. Retrieved 2013-12-02. (subscription or UK public library membership required)

[5] Florence Marryat (1872). Life and Letters of Captain Marryat. D. Appleton. pp. 73.

[6] Sarah Harriet Burney (1997). The Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney. University of Georgia Press. p. 159. ISBN 978-0-8203-1746-5.

[7] Maria Edgeworth (18 November 2013). Delphi Complete Novels of Maria Edgeworth (Illustrated). Delphi Classics. p. 5697. GGKEY:5Y2D7748AQ4.

[8] Diane Long Hoeveler (15 May 2014). The Gothic Ideology: Religious Hysteria and Anti-Catholicism in British Popular Fiction, 1780-1880. University of Wales Press. p. 330. ISBN 978-1-78316-049-5.

[9] Gregg Crane (25 October 2007). The Cambridge Introduction to The Nineteenth-Century American Novel. Cambridge University Press. p. 17. ISBN 978-1-139-46565-6.

[10] Garside, Peter; Parrinder, Patrick; O'Brien, Karen (2015). The Oxford History of the Novel in English. Oxford University Press. p. 263. ISBN 978-0-19-957480-3.

[11] Wilhelm Kühlmann (4 September 2009). Huh – Kräf (in German). Walter de Gruyter. p. 575. ISBN 978-3-11-021394-2.

[12] Marcel Cornis-Pope; John Neubauer (1 January 2004). History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe: Junctures and Disjunctures in the 19th and 20th Centuries. John Benjamins Publishing. p. 519. ISBN 90-272-3452-3.

[13] The Quarterly Review. Murray. 1819. p. 475.

[14] Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1812). Gesammelte Werke: Die objektive logik (1812. F. Meiner.

[15] Frank T. (Frank Thomas) Marzials (7 February 2012). Life of Charles Dickens. tredition. p. 214. ISBN 978-3-8472-0702-3.

[16] Harold Bloom (2009). Robert Browning. Infobase Publishing. p. 12. ISBN 978-1-4381-1582-5.

[17] John Lehmann (1977). Edward Lear and his World. p. 10.

[18] Van Gemert, Lia (2011). Women's Writing from the Low Countries 1200-1875: A Bilingual Anthology. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. p. 528. ISBN 978-9-08964-129-8.

[19] "Litteraturbanken | Svenska klassiker som e-bok och epub". litteraturbanken.se. Retrieved 2 April 2020.

[20] Life in the Desert, or, Recollections of Travel in Asia and Africa. 1860. Retrieved 2013-09-23 – via World Digital Library.

[21] This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Courtney, William Prideaux (1911). "Tooke, John Horne". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 27 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 13–14.

[ScholzHeidel2000-22] Albrecht Scholz; Caris-Petra Heidel (2000). Sozialpolitik und Judentum (in German). Union Druckerei. p. 17.

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