1812 in literature

The year 1812 in literature involved some significant events.

Events

 * Series of lectures on drama and Shakespeare - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
 * Washington Irving begins editing Analectic magazine.
 * Frederick Marryat is promoted to lieutenant after distinguished service at sea in the War of 1812.
 * The rebuilt Theatre Royal, Drury Lane opens on October 10.

Fiction

 * Amelia Beauclerc - The Castle of Tariffa
 * Bridget Bluemantle - The Vindictive Spirit
 * Maria Edgeworth:
 * The Absentee
 * Emilie de Coulanges
 * Vivian
 * Grimm's Fairy Tales, volume 1
 * Ann Hatton - The Fortress del Vechii
 * Anthony Frederick Holstein – The Modern Kate
 * Charles Robert Maturin - The Milesian Chief
 * Henrietta Rouviere Mosse - Arrivals from India
 * Rebecca Rush - Kelroy
 * George Soane – The Eve of San Marco
 * Louisa Stanhope - The Confessional of Valombre
 * Elizabeth Thomas – The Vindictive Spirit
 * Jane West - The Loyalists: An Historical Novel
 * Johann David Wyss - The Swiss Family Robinson

Non-fiction

 * John Galt - Cursory Reflections on Political and Commercial Topics
 * Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel - Die objektive Logik
 * W. M. Leake - Greece
 * James Maitland, 8th Earl of Lauderdale - The Depreciation of the Paper-currency of Great Britain Proved
 * John Nichols - The Literary Anecdotes of the 18th Century, volume 1
 * Percy Bysshe Shelley - Declaration of Rights

New drama

 * Joanna Baillie - Orra

Poetry

 * Lord Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
 * Percy Bysshe Shelley - The Devil's Walk: A Ballad
 * Anna Laetitia Barbauld - Eighteen Hundred and Eleven

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)
 * October 29 - Louise Granberg, Swedish playwright (.d. 1907)
 * 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