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See also: 1811 in literature, other events of 1812, 1813 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

Series of lectures on drama and Shakespeare - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Frederick Marryat is promoted to lieutenant after distinguished service at sea in the War of 1812.

New books

The Absentee
- Maria Edgeworth
Arrivals from India - Henrietta Rouviere Mosse
The Confessional of Valombre - Louisa Stanhope
Declaration of Rights - Percy Shelley
Emilie de Coulanges - Maria Edgeworth
The Fortress del Vechii - Ann Hatton
The Loyalists: An Historical Novel - Jane West
The Milesian Chief - Charles Robert Maturin
The Swiss Family Robinson
- Johann David Wyss
The Vindictive Spirit - Bridget Bluemantle
Vivian - Maria Edgeworth

Non-fiction

John Galt - Cursory Reflections on Political and Commercial Topics
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel - Die objektive Logik
W. M. Leake - Greece
John Nichols - The Literary Anecdotes of the 18th Century, volume 1

Poetry

Lord Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

Births

February 7 - Charles Dickens, English writer (d. 1870)
February 19 - Zygmunt Krasiński, Polish poet
May 7 - Robert Browning, English poet (d. 1889)
May 12 - Edward Lear English writer (d. 1888)
June 18 - Ivan Goncharov Russian writer (d. 1891)
July 5 - Antonio García Gutiérrez, Spanish dramatist (d. 1884)
August 22 – Geraldine Jewsbury, British author (d. 1880)
December 23 - Samuel Smiles, self-help author (d. 1904)

Deaths

February 24 - Hugo Kołłątaj, historian and philosopher
March 24 - Johann Jakob Griesbach, Biblical commentator
July 14 - Christian Gottlob Heyne, librarian and classicist
November 16 - John Walter, founder of The Times newspaper
December 22 - Pierre Henri Larcher, classical scholar
date unknown - Martha Ballard, diarist
date unknown - Jacques Marie Boutet, dramatist and actor
date unknown - Zalkind Hourwitz, essayist
date unknown - Levshin Platon, church historian

Awards

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