Books - 1821 in literature

Events

• In the first known obscenity case in the United States, a Massachusetts court outlawed the John Cleland novel, Fanny Hill . The publisher, Peter Holmes, was convicted for printing a "lewd and obscene" novel.
• August 4 - Atkinson & Alexander publish the Saturday Evening Post for the first time as a weekly newspaper.

New books

• Annals of the Parish - John Galt
• The Ayrshire Legatees - John Galt
• Confessions of an English Opium Eater - Thomas De Quincey
• The Irish Necromancer - Thomas H. Marshall
• Kenilworth
  - Sir Walter Scott
• Life in London - Pierce Egan
• Lovers and Friends - Ann Hatton
• Maid Marian
  - Thomas Love Peacock
• Smarra - Charles Nodier
• The Spectre of St. Michael's - C. D. Haynes
• The Spy - James Fenimore Cooper
• Talisman, a Tale of Mystery - I. M. H. Hales
• Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre (Wilhelm Meister's Travels) - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• The Village of Mariendorpt - Anna Maria Porter

New drama

• Alexandre-Vincent Pineux Duval - Le Faux Bonhomme
• Franz Grillparzer - Das Goldene Vliess

Poetry

• Heinrich Heine - Poems
• Alessandro Manzoni - Il Cinque Maggio

Non-fiction

• George Grote - Statement of the Question of Parliamentary Reform
• William Hazlitt - Table Talk
• James Mill - Elements of Political Economy
• Robert Southey - Life of Cromwell

Births

• March 19 - Richard Francis Burton (+ 1890)
• April 9 - Charles-Pierre Baudelaire (+ 1867)
• October 30 - Fyodor Dostoevsky (+ 1881)
• November 28 - Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov (+ 1877)
• December 6 - Dora Greenwell (+ 1882)
• December 12 - Gustave Flaubert (+ 1880)

Deaths

• February 23 - John Keats, poet
• February 26 - Joseph de Maistre, philosopher
• March 17 - Louis-Marcelin de Fontanes, poet
• May 2 - Hester Thrale, diarist and friend of Dr Johnson
• August 1 - Elizabeth Inchbald, writer

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