1813 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1813.Events
- January 23 – Remorse, a new play by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, begins a three-week run at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London.
- January 27 – Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice is first published in London. A second edition follows in November.
- February 3 – Leigh Hunt is imprisoned for a libel of the Prince Regent in The Examiner. He continues his literary work in prison and will be visited there by Lord Byron, Thomas Moore, Charles and Mary Lamb, Charles Cowden Clarke, Maria Edgeworth, William Hazlitt, Jeremy Bentham, Lord Brougham and Benjamin Haydon.
- May 10 – The eccentric English amateur actor Robert Coates makes his London debut in his favourite role, Romeo, at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket.
- June 17–18 – The German poet and playwright Theodor Körner, fighting with the Königlich Preußisches Freikorps von Lützow in the German campaign against Napoleon, composes the sonnet "Abschied vom Leben" while lying severely wounded.
- July – The first award of the Chancellor's Gold Medal for poetry at the University of Cambridge in England goes to George Waddington for "Columbus".
- August 25 – Theodor Körner composes the patriotic lyric "Schwertlied" on the night before his death in action, aged 21.
- October 2 – The Philomathean Society of the University of Pennsylvania is founded. It is the oldest continuously existing literary society in the United States.
- Autumn – Robert Southey becomes Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom after Walter Scott declines the post.
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Fiction
- Jane Austen – Pride and Prejudice
- Eaton Stannard Barrett – The Heroine, or: Adventures of a fair romance reader
- Willem Bilderdijk – Kort verhaal van eene aanmerklijke luchtreis, en nieuwe planeetontdekking
- Adelbert von Chamisso – Peter Schlemihl
- Barbara Hofland – The Daughter-in-Law
- Regina Maria Roche – The Monastery of St. Columb
- Shikitei Sanba – Ukiyoburo
Drama
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge – Remorse
- Jean-Antoine-Marie Monperlier – Les Chevaliers de Malte
- Amandus Gottfried Adolf Müllner – Die Schuld
- Jane M. Scott – The Forest Knight
- Matthäus Casimir von Collin – Der Tod Friedrichs des Streitbaren
Poetry
- Lord Byron – The Giaour
- Alessandro Manzoni – Inni sacri
- Mary Russell Mitford – Narrative Poems on the Female Character
- Percy Bysshe Shelley – Queen Mab: A Philosophical Poem
Non-fiction
- Charles Bucke – The Philosophy of Nature, or, the Influence of Scenery on the Mind and Heart
- Humphry Davy – Elements of Agricultural Chemistry in a Course of Lectures
- Joseph-Philippe-François Deleuze – Histoire critique de magnétisme animal
- Pierce Egan – Boxiana; or Sketches of Pugilism
- Johann Friedrich Herbart – Lehrbuch zur Einleitung in die Philosophie
- Robert Owen – A New View of Society
- James Cowles Prichard – Researches into the Physical History of Man
- Arthur Schopenhauer – On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason
- Percy Bysshe Shelley – A Vindication of Natural Diet
- Robert Southey – The Life of Nelson
- Germaine de Staël – De l'Allemagne
Births
- January 23
- *Camilla Collett, Norwegian writer
- *Charles Harpur, Australian poet
- February 11 - Otto Ludwig, German novelist and playwright
- March 11 – William Watkiss Lloyd, English polymath
- March 18 – Christian Friedrich Hebbel, German poet and dramatist
- May 5 – Søren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher
- May 20 – William Smith, English lexicographer
- October 17 – Georg Büchner, German dramatist, poet and writer
Uncertain dates
- Harriet Jacobs, African-American memoirist and abolitionist
- Liu Xizai, Chinese scholar and literary critic
Deaths
- January 1 – Gioacchino Navarro, Maltese priest and poet
- January 20 – Christoph Martin Wieland, German poet
- February 4 – James Whitelaw, Irish historian
- April 22 – Henry Clifford, English legal writer
- June 26 – Jean-François Cailhava de L'Estandoux, French dramatist, poet and critic
- August 10 – Mary Anne Burges, Scottish religious allegorist
- August 11 – Henry James Pye, English Poet Laureate
- August 26 – Theodor Körner, German poet and dramatist
- October 11 – Robert Kerr, Scottish science writer and translator
- November 12 – J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur, French-American writer
