This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1816 .
Volume 1 of The Portico: A Repository of Science & Literature January – The Portico: A Repository of Science & Literature John Neal and others.[1]
April – Lord Byron leaves England for good to tour continental Europe.
April 14 – Lord Byron 's poems "A Sketch from Private Life" and "Fare Thee Well ", about his separation from his wife Anne Isabella , are published without authority in The Champion .May 5 – The first published poem by 20-year-old trainee surgeon John Keats , the sonnet "To Solitude", appears in The Examiner [2] May 9 – Lady Caroline Lamb 's anonymous novel Glenarvon Henry Colburn in London. A roman à clef Lord Byron in the rakish title character of Lord Glenarvon[3] Purity of Heart; Or, The Ancient Costume: A Tale, in One Volume, Addressed to the Author of Glenarvon , "a virulent, polemical novel" by "An old wife of twenty years", actually clergyman's spouse Elizabeth Thomas .[4] July – Lord Byron , Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin , Percy Bysshe Shelley and John Polidori , who have gathered at the Villa Diodati by Lake Geneva in a rainy Switzerland in this 'Year Without a Summer ', tell each other tales. This spawns two classic Gothic narratives, Mary Shelley 's Frankenstein The Vampyre Fragment of a Novel "). Byron also writes the poem Darkness
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November 25 – The Chestnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia (United States) becomes the world's first to be lit by gas .[6] December – John Keats composes the poem "Sleep and Poetry " while staying at the Hampstead house of his friend Leigh Hunt , who introduces him to Shelley.
December 5 – Lord Byron 's The Prisoner of Chillon , and Other PoemsJohn Murray , his publisher, is able to sell 7,000 copies of this and of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage December 30 – Percy Bysshe Shelley marries his mistress Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin in London, after the suicides on October 9 of her half-sister, Fanny Imlay (by laudanum in Swansea), and on December 10 of his pregnant estranged first wife, Harriet (by drowning in The Serpentine ).unknown dates
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Franz Bopp – Über das Conjugationssystem der Sanskritsprache in Vergleichung mit jenem der griechischen, lateinischen, persischen und germanischen Sprache (On the Conjugation System of Sanskrit in comparison with that of Greek, Latin, Persian and Germanic)Samuel Taylor Coleridge – The Statesman's Manual; or, The Bible the best guide to political skill and foresight: a lay sermon John Hoyland – A Historical Survey of the Customs, Habits, and Present State of the Gypsies Nikolay Karamzin – History of the Russian State (История государства Российского , Istoriya gosudarstva Rossiyskogo ; publication begins)George Sinclair – Hortus gramineus Woburnensis John Whittaker (printer) – Whittaker Magna Carta
January 25 – Anna Gardner , American abolitionist, teacher, reformer, author (died 1901 )February 18 – Ferdinand Dugué , French poet and playwright (died 1913 )March 1 – Kawatake Mokuami (河竹黙阿弥), Japanese kabuki dramatist (died 1893 )April 1 – Peter Cunningham , British literary scholar and antiquarian (died 1869 )April 21 – Charlotte Brontë , English novelist and poet (died 1855 )[10] June 2 – Grace Aguilar , English novelist (died 1847 )September 16
September 20 – Fredrik August Dahlgren , Swedish dramatist and songwriter (died 1895 )November 1 – Friedrich Wilhelm Hackländer , German novelist, dramatist and travel writer (died 1877 )November 28 – Theodosia Trollope (Theodosia Garrow), English poet and translator (died 1865 )possible year, unknown date – Dimitrie Ralet , Moldavian essayist, dramatist, poet and propagandist (died 1858 )
February 22 – Adam Ferguson , Scottish philosopher (born 1723 )March 3 – Johann August von Starck , German writer and theologian (born 1741 April 28 – Johann Heinrich Abicht , German philosopher (born 1762 )[11] July 7 – Richard Brinsley Sheridan , Irish playwright and politician (born 1751 )[12] July 23 – Elizabeth Hamilton , Irish-born Scottish essayist, poet and novelist (born c. 1756)August 9 – Johann August Apel , German writer, jurist and musicologist (born 1771 )[13] September 9 – Eliza Fay , English letter-writer and traveller (born 1755 or 1756)October 27 – Santō Kyōden (real name Iwase Samuru), Japanese fiction writer, poet and artist (born 1761 )November 16 – Pierre-Louis Ginguené , French author (born 1748 )[14] References
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^ Mott, Frank Luther (1966). A History of American Magazines: 1741-1850 . Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 294. OCLC 715774796 , 4th printing {{cite book }}: CS1 maint: postscript (link )^ "May 05 - The Examiner publishes John Keats' first poem" . This Day In History . UK: Sky History . Retrieved 2021-11-07 .^ Douglass, Malcolm Paul (2004-10-19). "Caroline Lamb: Glenarvon " . The Literary Encyclopedia . Retrieved 2014-02-12 . ^ Coleman, Deirdre (2007). "Thomas, Elizabeth (1770/71–1855)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography . Oxford University Press. ^ Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature ISBN 0-19-860634-6 ^ Wilson, Edwin; Goldfarb, Alvin (2008). Living Theatre: History of the Theatre (5th ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill. p. 362. ^ Spell, Jefferson Rea (1971). Bridging the Gap . Mexico City: Editorial Libros de México. p. 267. ^ Franco, Jean (1969). An Introduction to Spanish-American Literature . Cambridge University Press. p. 34.^ Hudson Strode (1951). Denmark is a Lovely Land ^ "Charlotte Brontë | British author" . Encyclopedia Britannica . Retrieved 8 April 2019 .^ Anemüller, Bernhard (1875). "Abicht, Johann Heinrich". In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie. Band 1 . Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot. S. 21 (German).
^ Richard Brinsley Sheridan; James P. Browne; Thomas Moore (1873). The Works of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan ^ The Macmillan Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians: In One Volume . Macmillan. 1938. p. 60.^ public domain : Chisholm, Hugh , ed. (1911). "Ginguené, Pierre Louis ". Encyclopædia Britannica
