1806 in literature

Events

 * Noah Webster publishes his first English dictionary.

New books

 * Harriet Butler - Vensenshon
 * Catherine Cuthbertson - Santo Sebastiano
 * Charlotte Dacre - Zofloya
 * Maria Edgeworth - Leonora
 * Sophia Frances - Vivonio
 * William Herbert -The Spanish Outlaw
 * Rachel Hunter -Lady Maclairn, The Victim of Villany
 * Francis Lathom - The Mysterious Freebooter
 * Matthew Gregory Lewis - Feudal Tyrants
 * Lady Morgan - The Wild Irish Girl
 * Henrietta Rouviere Mosse - The Heirs of Villeroy
 * Louisa Stanhope - Montbrasil Abbey

New drama

 * Richard Cumberland - Hint to Husbands
 * Heinrich von Kleist - The Broken Jug (written)
 * Leandro Fernández de Moratín - The Maidens' Consent (first performed)

Poetry

 * Jane & Ann Taylor - Rhymes for the Nursery

Non-fiction

 * J. C. Adelung - Mithridates, a History of Language and Dialects
 * Johann Gottlieb Fichte - Bericht über die Wissenschaftslehre
 * James Madison - An Examination of the British Doctrine which Subjects to Capture a Neutral Trade not Open in Time of Peace

Births
poet, folklorist and historian (d. 1885)
 * February 1 - Jane Williams (Ysgafell),
 * March 6 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, poet (d. 1861)
 * April 17 - William Gilmore Simms, author (d. 1870)
 * May 20 - John Stuart Mill, philosopher (d. 1873)
 * July 20 - John Sterling, author (d. 1844)
 * August 31 - Charles Lever, Anglo-Irish novelist (d. 1872)

Deaths

 * February 12 - Gabriel-Henri Gaillard, French historian
 * February 24 - Collin d'Harleville, French dramatist
 * March 3 - Heinrich Christian Boie, German poet and editor
 * April 4 - Carlo Gozzi, Venetian dramatist
 * October 19 - Henry Kirke White, poet
 * October 28 - Charlotte Turner Smith, poet and novelist
 * November 23 - Sir Roger Newdigate, founder of the Newdigate prize