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The year 1805 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
Events[]
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge appointed Acting Public Secretary in Malta.
- Jacob Grimm is invited to Paris as an assistant to Friedrich Karl von Savigny.
New books[]
- Eugenia de Acton - The Nuns of the Desert
- Hosea Ballou - A Treatise on Atonement
- Sophie Ristaud Cottin - The Saracen
- Charlotte Dacre - Confessions of the Nun of St. Omer
- Robert Charles Dallas - The Morlands
- Denis Diderot - Rameau's Nephew
- Maria Edgeworth - The Modern Griselda
- Elizabeth Helme:
- The Chronicles of Christabelle de Mowbray
- The Pilgrims of the Cross
- William Henry Ireland:
- The Confessions of William Henry Ireland
- Gondez the Monk
- Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool - Treatise on the Coins of the Realm
- Ellis Cornelia Knight - Description of Latium or La Campagna di Roma
- Matthew Gregory Lewis - The Bravo of Venice
- Mary Meeke - The Wonder of the Village
- Anna Maria Porter - A Sailor's Friendship, and A Soldier's Love
- Catherine Selden - Villa Nova
- Richard Sickelmore – Rashleigh Abbey
- Mercy Otis Warren - History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution
- William Frederick Williams - The Witcheries of Craig Isaf
- Sophia Woodfall - The Child of the Abbey
- R. P. M. Yorke - My Master's Secret
- Mary Julia Young - The Witches of Glenshiel
New drama[]
- Alexandre-Vincent Pineux Duval - Le Menuisier de Livonie
- Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger - Hakon Jarl
Poetry[]
- Main article: 1805 in poetry
- Ivan Pnin - God
- Sir Walter Scott - The Lay of the Last Minstrel
- Sir Martin Archer Shee - Rhymes on Art
- Robert Southey - Madoc
Births[]
- February 4 - William Harrison Ainsworth, novelist (+ 1882)
- April 2 - Hans Christian Andersen, writer (+ 1875)
- July 29 - Alexis de Tocqueville, writer (+ 1859)
- August 29 - Frederick Maurice, theologian and novelist
- September 19 - John Stevens Cabot Abbott, historian
- December 23 - Joseph Smith, Jr., founder and prophet of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Deaths[]
- March 29 - Jean Elliot, Scottish poet
- May 9 - Friedrich Schiller, German playwright
- May 25 - William Paley, philosopher
- June 18 - Arthur Murphy, who wrote as "Charles Ranger"
- July 27 - Brian Merriman, Irish language poet
- August 3 - Christopher Anstey, poet
- September 3 - Johann Martin Abele, publisher
- date unknown - Anna Hammar-Rosén, publisher (b. 1735)