1821 in literature
See also: 1820 in literature, other events of 1821, 1822 in literature, list of years in literature.
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Events
- In the first known obscenity case in the United States, a Massachusetts court outlawed the John Cleland novel, Fanny Hill . The publisher, Peter Holmes, was convicted for printing a "lewd and obscene" novel.
- August 4 - Atkinson & Alexander publish the Saturday Evening Post for the first time as a weekly newspaper.
New books
- Annals of the Parish - John Galt
- The Ayrshire Legatees - John Galt
- Confessions of an English Opium Eater - Thomas De Quincey
- The Irish Necromancer - Thomas H. Marshall
- Kenilworth - Sir Walter Scott
- Life in London - Pierce Egan
- Lovers and Friends - Ann Hatton
- Maid Marian - Thomas Love Peacock
- Smarra - Charles Nodier
- The Spectre of St. Michael's - C. D. Haynes
- The Spy - James Fenimore Cooper
- Talisman, a Tale of Mystery - I. M. H. Hales
- Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre (Wilhelm Meister's Travels) - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- The Village of Mariendorpt - Anna Maria Porter
New drama
- Alexandre-Vincent Pineux Duval - Le Faux Bonhomme
- Franz Grillparzer - Das Goldene Vliess
Poetry
- Heinrich Heine - Poems
- Alessandro Manzoni - Il Cinque Maggio
Non-fiction
- George Grote - Statement of the Question of Parliamentary Reform
- William Hazlitt - Table Talk
- James Mill - Elements of Political Economy
- Robert Southey - Life of Cromwell
Births
- March 19 - Richard Francis Burton (+ 1890)
- April 9 - Charles-Pierre Baudelaire (+ 1867)
- October 30 - Fyodor Dostoevsky (+ 1881)
- November 28 - Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov (+ 1877)
- December 6 - Dora Greenwell (+ 1882)
- December 12 - Gustave Flaubert (+ 1880)
Deaths
- January 14 - Jens Zetlitz, Norwegian poet
- February 23 - John Keats, poet
- February 26 - Joseph de Maistre, philosopher
- March 17 - Louis-Marcelin de Fontanes, poet
- May 2 - Hester Thrale, diarist and friend of Dr Johnson
- August 1 - Elizabeth Inchbald, writer
Awards
Categories
1821 books