1814 in literature

The year 1814 in literature involved some significant events.

Events

 * In England, a revolutionary steam-powered press prints the Times newspaper at a rate of 1100 copies per hour.

New books

 * Jane Austen &mdash; Mansfield Park
 * Fanny Burney &mdash; The Wanderer
 * Mary Brunton - &mdash; Discipline
 * Lord Byron - The Corsair
 * Selina Davenport &mdash; The Hypocrite
 * Maria Edgeworth &mdash; Patronage
 * Pierce Egan &mdash; The Mistress of Royalty
 * Jane Harvey
 * Auberry Stanhope
 * Ethelia: a Tale
 * Ann Hatton &mdash; Conviction
 * Laetitia Matilda Hawkins - Rossane; or A father’s labour lost
 * William Henry Hitchener &mdash; The Towers of Ravenswold
 * Barbara Hofland &mdash; Emily and Her Friends
 * Christian Isobel Johnstone - the Saxon and the Gaël
 * Mary Meeke &mdash; Conscience
 * Lady Morgan &mdash; O'Donnell
 * Anna Maria Porter &mdash; The Recluse of Norway
 * Regina Marie Roche&mdash; Trecothick Bower
 * Honoria Scott &mdash; The Castle of Strathmay
 * Sir Walter Scott &mdash; Waverley
 * Mary Martha Sherwood &mdash; The History of Little Henry and his Bearer
 * Louisa Stanhope &mdash; Madelina: A Tale Founded on Facts
 * Elizabeth Thomas &mdash; The Prison-House
 * Jane West &mdash; Alicia de Lacy

New drama

 * Richard Lalor Sheil - Adelaide, or the Emigrants

Poetry

 * William Wordsworth - The Excursion

Non-fiction

 * Thomas Hartwell Horne - Introduction to the Study of Bibliography
 * Percy Bysshe Shelley - A Refutation of Deism
 * Elizabeth Wallbridge - The Dairyman's Daughter

Births

 * June 8 - Charles Reade, English writer (d. 1884)
 * August 28 - Sheridan le Fanu, Irish writer (d. 1873)
 * October 3 - Mikhail Lermontov, Russian poet (d. 1841)
 * November 6 - William Wells Brown African-American writer (d. 1884)
 * December 27 - Jules Simon, French philosopher (d. 1896)

Deaths

 * January 4 - Johann Georg Jacobi, poet (b. 1740)
 * January 27 - Johann Gottlieb Fichte, philosopher (b. 1762)
 * February 24 - Julien Louis Geoffroy, French literary critic (b. 1743)
 * July 25 - Charles Dibdin, novelist, dramatist and actor (b. 1745)
 * September 5 - Gottfried Gabriel Bredow, historian (b. 1773)
 * November 10 - Abbé Aubert, dramatist, poet and journalist (b. 1731)
 * December 2 - Marquis de Sade, pornographic author (b. 1740)