1801 in literature

The year 1801 in literature involved some significant events.

Events

 * In recognition of the English attack on Copenhagen, Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger produces his first dramatic sketch.

New books

 * Mary Charlton – The Pirate of Naples
 * François-René de Chateaubriand – Atala
 * Anne Seymour Damer - Belmour
 * Maria Edgeworth - Belinda
 * Robert Evans – The Dream
 * Elizabeth Helme – St. Margaret's Cave
 * Rachel Hunter – Letitia
 * Isabella Kelly – Ruthinglenne
 * Sophia King – The Fatal Secret
 * Mary Meeke – Which is the Man
 * Agnes Musgrave – The Confession
 * Amelia Opie – The Father and Daughter
 * Eliza Parsons – The Peasant of Ardenne Forest
 * Annabella Plumptre – The Western Mail
 * J. H. Sarratt – Terror of Bohemia
 * Maria Lavinia Smith – The Fugitive of the Forest
 * Henry Summersett – The Wizard and the Sword
 * Henry Whitfield – Geraldwood
 * R. P. M. Yorke – The Haunted Palace

New drama

 * Friedrich von Schiller
 * The Maid of Orleans
 * Maria Stuart
 * The Gypsy Prince by Thomas Moore and Michael Kelly (tenor)

Non-fiction

 * Francis Barrett -The Magus, or Celestial Intelligencer
 * Elizabeth Hamilton - Letters on the Elementary Principles of Education
 * Arthur Murphy - Life of David Garrick

Births

 * February 16 - Frederic Madden, palaeographer
 * February 21 - John Henry Newman, Catholic writer
 * March 4 - Karl Rudolf Hagenbach, historian
 * March 15 - George Perkins Marsh, philologist
 * August 10 - Christian Hermann Weisse, philosopher
 * September 4 - Alfred Guillaume Gabriel, Count D'Orsay, wit
 * November 3 - Karl Baedeker, publisher
 * November 10 - Vladimir Dal, lexicographer
 * November 22 - Abraham Hayward
 * November 24 - Ludwig Bechstein
 * December 4 - Karl Ludwig Michelet, philosopher
 * December 7 - Johann Nestroy, dramatist
 * December 11 - Christian Dietrich Grabbe, dramatist

Deaths

 * January 2 - Johann Kaspar Lavater, Swiss poet (b. 1741)
 * March 14 - Ignacy Krasicki, poet (b. 1735)
 * March 21 - John Holt, non-fiction author (b. 1743)
 * March 25 - Novalis, German poet (b. 1772)
 * April 11 - Antoine de Rivarol, epigrammatist (b. 1753)
 * September 1 - Robert Bage, novelist (b. 1728)
 * September 23 - Thomas Nowell, historian (b. c. 1730)
 * date unknown - Giovanni Andrea Lazzarini, painter, poet and art historian (b. 1710)