1811 in literature

The year 1811 in literature involved some significant new books, including Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility.

Events

 * Sir Walter Scott buys Abbotsford House.

New books

 * Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility
 * Amelia Beauclerc - Eva of Cambria
 * Mary Brunton - Self-Control
 * Augustus Jacob Crandolph - The Mysterious Hand
 * Charlotte Dacre - The Passions
 * Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué - Undine
 * Rachel Hunter -The Schoolmistress
 * Heinrich von Kleist - Michael Kohlhaas
 * Mary Meeke - Stratagems Defeated
 * Lady Morgan - The Missionary: An Indian Tale
 * Emma Parker - Elfrida, Heiress of Belgrove
 * Percy Bysshe Shelley - St. Irvyne; or, The Rosicrucian
 * Catherine Smith
 * Barozzi
 * The Caledonian Bandit
 * Elizabeth Thomas - Mortimer Hall
 * Sarah Wigley - Glencarron: a Scottish Tale
 * Sophia F Ziegenhirt - Seabrook Village and Its Inhabitants

New drama

 * Sarah Isdell - The Poor Gentlewoman

Poetry

 * Anna Maria Porter - Ballad Romances, and Other Poems
 * Thomas Pringle - The Institute: a Heroic Poem

Non-fiction

 * K.A. Böttiger - Kunstmythologie
 * Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Aus meinem Leben: Dichtung und Wahrheit
 * Barthold G. Niebuhr - Roman History
 * John Roberton - On Diseases of the Generative System
 * Percy Bysshe Shelley - The Necessity of Atheism

Births

 * January 9 - Gilbert Abbott à Beckett (+  1856)
 * February 1 - Arthur Henry Hallam, poet (+ 1833)
 * February 19 - Jules Sandeau, French dramatist and novelist
 * June 14 - Harriet Beecher Stowe, novelist
 * July 18 - William Makepeace Thackeray (+  1863)
 * August 31 - Théophile Gautier, poet, novelist (+  1872)
 * September 17 - August Blanche, Swedish writer, statesman (d. 1868)

Deaths

 * January 10 - Joseph Chénier, poet and dramatist, brother of André Chénier
 * May 7 - Richard Cumberland (dramatist)
 * September 14 - James Grahame, poet
 * September 30 - Bishop Thomas Percy, collector of Percy's Reliques
 * November 21 - Heinrich von Kleist, poet