Books - 1805 in literature

Events

• Friedrich Schiller introduces his new play, Wilhelm Tell
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge appointed Acting Public Secretary in Malta

New books

• The Bravo of Venice - Matthew Gregory Lewis
• The Child of the Abbey - Sophia Woodfall
• The Chronicles of Christabelle de Mowbray - Elizabeth Helme
• Confessions of the Nun of St. Omer - Charlotte Dacre
• Gondez the Monk - William Henry Ireland
• The Modern Griselda - Maria Edgeworth
• My Master's Secret - R. P. M. Yorke
• The Nuns of the Desert - Eugenia de Acton
• The Pilgrims of the Cross - Elisabeth Helme
• Rameau's Nephew - Denis Diderot
• A Sailor's Friendship, and A Soldier's Love - Anna Maria Porter
• The Saracen
  - Sophie Ristaud Cottin
• Villa Nova - Catherine Selden
• The Witcheries of Craig Isaf - William Frederick Williams
• The Witches of Glenshiel - Mary Julia Young
• The Wonder of the Village - Mary Meeke

New drama

• Alexandre-Vincent Pineux Duval - Le Menuisier de Livonie

Poetry

• Sir Walter Scott - The Lay of the Last Minstrel
• Sir Martin Archer Shee - Rhymes on Art
• Robert Southey - Madoc

Non-fiction

• Hosea Ballou - A Treatise on Atonement
• Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool - Treatise on the Coins of the Realm

Births

• February 4 - William Harrison Ainsworth, novelist (+ 1882)
• April 2 - Hans Christian Andersen, writer (+ 1875)
• July 29 - Alexis de Tocqueville, writer (+ 1859)
• August 29 - Frederick Maurice, theologian and novelist
• December 23 - Joseph Smith, Jr., founder and prophet of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Deaths

• March 29 - Jean Elliot, Scottish poet
• May 9 - Friedrich Schiller, German playwright
• May 25 - William Paley, philosopher
• June 18 - Arthur Murphy, who wrote as "Charles Ranger"
• July 27 - Brian Merriman, Irish language poet
• August 3 - Christopher Anstey, poet
• September 3 - Johann Martin Abele, publisher

Awards

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