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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1805.
Events[edit]
- January 18–September 6 – Samuel Taylor Coleridge serves as Acting Public Secretary in Malta.[1]
- Early – Jacob Grimm is invited to Paris as an assistant to Friedrich Carl von Savigny.
- October 12 – The new Theatre Royal, Bath, opens in England, replacing the Old Orchard Street Theatre.[2]
- Unknown date – Henry Thomas Colebrooke makes the first translation into English of the Sanskrit Aitareya Upanishad.
New books[edit]
Fiction[edit]
- 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:
- The Chronicles of Christabelle de Mowbray
- The Pilgrims of the Cross
- 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
- A Soldier's Love
- Jan Potocki – The Manuscript Found in Saragossa (Manuscrit trouvé à Saragosse, first ten "days")
- Catherine Selden – Villa Nova
Children[edit]
- Ann Taylor and Jane Taylor – Original Poems for Infant Minds by several young persons, vol. 2
- Achim von Arnim and Clemens Brentano (edited and composed) – Des Knaben Wunderhorn, vol. 1
Drama[edit]
- Marianne Chambers – The School for Friends
- George Colman the Younger –Who Wants a Guinea?
- Alexandre-Vincent Pineux Duval – Le Menuisier de Livonie
- Robert William Elliston – The Venetian Outlaw
- Elizabeth Inchbald – To Marry or Not to Marry
- Matthew Lewis – Rugantino
- Thomas Morton – The School of Reform
- Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger – Hakon Jarl
- Henry James Pye – A Prior Claim
- Frederick Reynolds – The Delinquent
- John Tobin – The Honey Moon
Poetry[edit]
- Ivan Pnin – God
- Walter Scott – The Lay of the Last Minstrel
- Martin Archer Shee – Rhymes on Art
- Robert Southey – Madoc
Non-fiction[edit]
- Hosea Ballou – A Treatise on Atonement
- James Belcher – "Treatice [sic.] on Boxing by Mr. J. Belcher" (article in George Barrington, New London Year)
- 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
- Richard Payne Knight – An Analytical Inquiry into the Principles of Taste
- Jane Marcet (anonymously) – Conversations on Chemistry[3]
- Mercy Otis Warren – History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution
Births[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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)
- Anna Maria Rückerschöld, Swedish author (born 1725)
- 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)
- Early September – Mary Deverell, English religious writer, essayist and poet (born 1731)
- September 3 – Johann Martin Abele, German publisher (born 1753)
- December 21 – Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage, Portuguese poet (born 1765)[4]
- unknown dates
- Ji Yun (纪昀), Chinese poet and scholar (born 1724)[5]
- Anna Hammar-Rosén, Swedish publisher (born 1735)
References[edit]
- ^ Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1933). Unpublished Letters. Yale University Press. p. 310.
- ^ William Lowndes (1982). The Theatre Royal at Bath: The Eventful Story of a Georgian Playhouse. Redcliffe. p. 48. ISBN 978-0-905459-49-3.
- ^ Morse, Elizabeth J. (2004). "Marcet, Jane Haldimand (1769–1858)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/18029. Retrieved 2013-10-14. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ The New Encyclopaedia Britannica: Micropaedia (10 v.). Encyclopaedia Britannica. 1983. p. 108. ISBN 978-0-85229-400-0.
- ^ Louise Edwards; Kam Louie; Yuan Mei; Mei Yuan; Louise P. Edwards (16 January 1996). Censored by Confucius: Ghost Stories by Yuan Mei. M.E. Sharpe. p. 29. ISBN 978-0-7656-3302-6.