1815 in literature

The year 1815 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events



 * The Brothers Grimm complete the writing of Grimms' Fairy Tales.
 * First publication of the North American Review.

New books

 * John Agg - A Month at Brussels
 * Jane Austen - Emma
 * Sarah Green - The Fugitive
 * Elizabeth Gunning - The Victims of Seduction
 * Ann Hatton - Secret Avengers
 * Mary Hays - The Brothers, or Consequences
 * E. T. A. Hoffmann - The Devil's Elixir
 * Barbara Hofland - A Father as He Should Be
 * Christian Isobel Johnstone - Clan-Albin: A National Tale
 * Mary Meeke - The Spanish Campaign
 * Mary Pilkington - The Unfortunate Choice
 * Jane Porter - The Pastor's Fireside
 * Regina Marie Roche - Edinburg; a Novel
 * Sir Walter Scott - Guy Mannering
 * Catherine Smith - Barozzi or the Venetian Sorceress: A Romance of the Sixteenth Century
 * Elizabeth Thomas - The Baron of Falconberg

New drama

 * Barbarina Brand - Ina, a tragedy in five acts
 * J. S. Knowles - Caius Gracchus
 * Jane Scott -The Gipsy Girl

Poetry

 * Pierre-Jean de Béranger - Chansons I
 * Percy Bysshe Shelley - Alastor, or The Spirit of Solitude
 * William Wordsworth - White Doe of Rhylstone

Non-fiction

 * Simón Bolívar - Letter to Jamaica (September 6)
 * George Cavendish -The Life and Death of Cardinal Wolsey
 * Les Jeux des Jeunes Garçons
 * Thomas Malthus - An Inquiry into the Nature and Progress of Rent

Births

 * April 24 - Anthony Trollope, novelist (d. 1882)
 * May 5 - Eugène Marin Labiche, dramatist (d. 1888)
 * October 4 - Franz Jakob Clemens, philosopher (d. 1862)
 * November 17 - Eliza Farnham, novelist and reformer (d. 1864)
 * date unknown - Martins Pena, Brazilian dramatist (d. 1848)

Deaths

 * January 21 - Matthias Claudius, poet (b. 1740)
 * January 30 - Hans Christian Amberg, lexicographer (b. 1749)
 * November 2 - Gottlieb Christoph Harless, bibliographer (b. 1738)
 * November 11 - Pierre-Louis Ginguené, writer and critic (b. 1748)
 * November 17 - Dorothea Viehmann, fairy-tale writer (b. 1755)
 * December - Jan Potocki, polymath (b. 1761)
 * December 20 - Giovanni Meli, Sicilian poet (b. 1740)