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Books - 1821 in literature


See also: 1820 in literature
, other events of 1821, 1822 in literature
, list of years 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

Awards

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