1. Events

2. New books
    Fiction  Children and young people  Drama  Poetry  Non-fiction 

3. Births

4. Deaths

5. References

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1806.

Events

• Noah Webster publishes his first English dictionary, A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language, recording distinctive American spellings.
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe completes a preliminary version of his Faust.
• Sir Roger Newdigate founds the Newdigate Prize for English Poetry at the University of Oxford. The first winner is John Wilson ("Christopher North").
• Nólsoyar Páll completes his anti-Danish Fuglakvæði (Ballad of the Birds), one of the first significant works in the Faroese language.
• December 29 – Thomas Dibdin's pantomime Harlequin and Mother Goose; or, The Golden Egg opens at the Covent Garden Theatre in London starring Joseph Grimaldi. It runs for 111 performances.

New books

Fiction

• Harriet Butler – Vensenshon
• Sophie Ristaud Cottin – Elisabeth, ou les Exilés de Sibérie
• Catherine Cuthbertson – Santo Sebastiano
• Charlotte Dacre – Zofloya
• Maria Edgeworth – Leonora
• Rachel Hunter -Lady Maclairn, the Victim of Villany
• Francis Lathom – The Mysterious Freebooter
• Matthew Gregory Lewis – Feudal Tyrants
• Sydney Owenson – The Wild Irish Girl
• Louisa Stanhope – Montbrasil Abbey

Children and young people

• Elizabeth Dawbarn – Young Person's Assistant in Reading the Old Testament
• Ann Taylor and Jane Taylor – Rhymes for the Nursery^[1]

Drama

• Richard Cumberland – Hint to Husbands
• Heinrich von Kleist – The Broken Jug (Der zerbrochne Krug, written)
• Leandro Fernández de Moratín – The Maidens' Consent (El sí de las niñas, first performed)

Poetry

Non-fiction

• J. C. Adelung – Mithridates, a History of Language and Dialects
• Johann Gottlieb Fichte – Bericht über die Wissenschaftslehre
• James Madison – An Examination of the British Doctrine which Subjects to Capture a Neutral Trade not Open in Time of Peace
• Maria Eliza Rundell (as A Lady) – A New System of Domestic Cookery
• Jane West – Letters to a Young Lady

Births

• February 1 – Jane Williams (Ysgafell), Welsh poet, folklorist and historian (died 1885)
• March 6 – Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English poet (died 1861)
• March 26 – James Hogg, Scottish editor and publisher (died 1888)
• April 17 – William Gilmore Simms, American author (died 1870)
• May 20 – John Stuart Mill, English political economist and philosopher (died 1873)
• July 20 – John Sterling, Scottish essayist and poet (died 1844)
• July 22 – Johann Kaspar Zeuss, German historian and philologist (died 1856)
• August 31 – Charles Lever, Irish novelist (died 1872)
• November 11 – Georgiana Chatterton, English novelist and travel writer (died 1876)

Deaths

• February 12 – Gabriel-Henri Gaillard, French historian (born 1726)
• February 19 – Elizabeth Carter, English poet, writer and translator (born 1717)^[2]
• February 24 – Collin d'Harleville, French dramatist (born 1755)
• March 3 – Heinrich Christian Boie, German poet and editor (born 1744)
• April 4 – Carlo Gozzi, Venetian dramatist (born 1720)
• May 6 – Ann Yearsley, English poet, writer and library proprietor (died 1753)
• October 19 – Henry Kirke White, English poet (born 1785)
• October 28 – Charlotte Turner Smith, English poet and novelist (born 1749)
• November 23 – Sir Roger Newdigate, English antiquary, politician and literary patron (born 1719)

References

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