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{{Year nav topic5|1812|literature|poetry}}This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1812. Events- January 2 – Samuel Taylor Coleridge's lecture on Hamlet is given as part of a series of lectures on drama and Shakespeare; it has influenced Hamlet studies ever since.
- January 15 – Lord Byron takes his seat in the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
- March 20 – First two cantos of Lord Byron's poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage are published[1] by John Murray in London. This sells out in five days, giving rise to Byron's comment "I awoke one morning and found myself famous".[2]
- May–July – Auction in London of the library of the Duke of Roxburghe (d. 1804). On June 17 a presumed first edition of Boccaccio's Decameron, printed by Christopher Valdarfer of Venice in 1471, is sold to the Marquis of Blandford for £2,260, the highest price ever given for a book at this time; this is followed by a social meeting of bibliophiles under the chairmanship of 2nd Earl Spencer, the origin of the Roxburghe Club, formed by Thomas Frognall Dibdin.
- June 24 to December 14 – French invasion of Russia, which will form the climax of Tolstoy's 1869 novel War and Peace and feature in other works of literature.
- August 13 Sarah Burney and her family set sail from Dunkirk on an American ship bound for England.[3]
- October 10 – The rebuilt Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in London opens.
- December 9–20 – Leigh Hunt is tried and convicted of libel for calling the Prince Regent "a violator of his word, a libertine over head and ears in debt and disgrace" in The Examiner on March 22.[4]
- December 26 – Frederick Marryat is promoted to lieutenant after distinguished service at sea in the War of 1812.[5]
New booksFiction- Sarah Burney – Traits of Nature[6]
- Maria Edgeworth:[7]
- The Absentee
- Emilie de Coulanges
- Vivian
- Jean-Baptiste Benoît Eyriès – Fantasmagoriana
- The Brothers Grimm – Grimm's Fairy Tales, volume 1 (Kinder- und Hausmärchen)
- Ann Hatton – The Fortress del Vechii[8]
- Frances Margaretta Jacson (misascribed to Mary Brunton) – Things by their Right Names
- Charles Maturin – The Milesian Chief
- Rebecca Rush – Kelroy[9]
- George Soane – The Eve of San Marco
- Louisa Stanhope – The Confessional of Valombre
- Elizabeth Thomas – The Vindictive Spirit
- Jane West – The Loyalists: An Historical Novel
Children and young people- Johann David Wyss – The Swiss Family Robinson
- Barbara Hofland – The History of a Clergyman's Widow and Her Young Family[10]
Drama- Joanna Baillie – Orra
- Theodor Körner
- Die Braut (The Bride)
- Der grüne Domino (The Green Domino)
- Der Nachtwächter (The Night Watchman)
- Zriny[11]
- Adam Oehlenschläger – Stærkodder
- August von Kotzebue – Der arme Poet (The Poor Poet)
Poetry- Anna Laetitia Barbauld – Eighteen Hundred and Eleven
- Lord Byron – Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
- Percy Bysshe Shelley – A Ballad
- James and Horace Smith (anonymously) – Rejected Addresses
- William Tennant – Anster Fair
Non-fiction- John Galt – Cursory Reflections on Political and Commercial Topics
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel – Die objektive Logik[12]
- Sir Richard Colt Hoare – The Ancient History of South Wiltshire
- Mirza Abu Taleb Khan – Masir Talib fi Bilad Afranji (The Travels of Taleb in the Regions of Europe)
- James Maitland, 8th Earl of Lauderdale – The Depreciation of the Paper-currency of Great Britain Proved
- John Nichols – The Literary Anecdotes of the 18th Century, volume 1
- Percy Bysshe Shelley – Declaration of Rights
Births- February 7 – Charles Dickens, English novelist and editor (died 1870)
- February 15 – Chandos Wren-Hoskyns (Chandos Hoskyns), English agricultural author and landowner (died 1876)
- February 19 – Zygmunt Krasiński, Polish poet (died 1859)
- May 7 – Robert Browning, English poet (died 1889)
- May 12 – Edward Lear, English humorous poet and caricaturist (died 1888)
- June 9 – Camilla Dufour Crosland, English writer and poet (died 1895)
- June 18 – Ivan Goncharov, Russian novelist and critic (died 1891)
- June 27 – Andrei Mocioni, Hungarian/Romanian journalist and literary patron (died 1880)
- July 5 – Antonio García Gutiérrez, Spanish dramatist (died 1884)
- August 22 – Geraldine Jewsbury, English novelist and woman of letters (died 1880)
- October 29 – Louise Granberg, Swedish playwright (died 1907)
- December 23 – Samuel Smiles, Scottish self-help author (died 1904)
Deaths- February 13 – Jacques Marie Boutet, French dramatist and actor (born 1745)
- February 24 – Hugo Kołłątaj, Polish historian and philosopher (born 1750)
- March 18 – John Horne Tooke, English controversialist and cleric (born 1736)
- March 24 – Johann Jakob Griesbach, German Biblical commentator (born 1745)
- May 12 – Martha Ballard, American diarist (born c. 1734)
- July 14 – Christian Gottlob Heyne, German librarian and classicist (born 1729)
- October 28 – Susanna Duncombe, English poet and painter (born 1725)
- November 11 – Platon Levshin, Russian church historian (born 1737)
- November 16 – John Walter, English founder of The Times, London (born c. 1738)
- December 22 – Pierre Henri Larcher, French classicist and archeologist (born 1726)
- Unknown date – Zalkind Hourwitz, Polish essayist (born 1738)
References1. ^{{cite book |last=Palmer |first=Alan |author2=Veronica |year=1992 |title=The Chronology of British History |publisher=Century Ltd |location=London |pages=240–241 |isbn=0-7126-5616-2}}
2. ^{{citation |language=German |first=Barbara |last=Spengler-Axiopoulos |title=Der skeptische Kosmopolit |publisher=NZZ |date=2006-07-01 |url=http://www.nzz.ch/2006/07/01/li/articleDP4LH.html |access-date=2013-04-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120318074038/http://www.nzz.ch/2006/07/01/li/articleDP4LH.html|archive-date=2012-03-18 |dead-url=yes |df=}}
3. ^{{cite book |author=Sarah Harriet Burney |title=The Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v5vYkxFd-ZQC&pg=PA162 |year=1997 |publisher=University of Georgia Press |isbn=978-0-8203-1746-5 |pages=162}}
4. ^{{cite web |first=Nicholas |last=Roe |title=Hunt, (James Henry) Leigh (1784–1859) |work=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2004 |edition=Online |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/14195 |accessdate=2013-12-02 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/14195}} {{ODNBsub}}
5. ^{{cite book |author=Florence Marryat |title=Life and Letters of Captain Marryat |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QSOqj2NEbnwC&pg=PA73 |year=1872 |publisher=D. Appleton |pages=73}}
6. ^{{cite book |author=Sarah Harriet Burney |title=The Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v5vYkxFd-ZQC&pg=PA159 |year=1997 |publisher=University of Georgia Press |isbn=978-0-8203-1746-5 |pages=159}}
7. ^{{cite book |author=Maria Edgeworth |title=Delphi Complete Novels of Maria Edgeworth (Illustrated) |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ID0bAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT5697 |date=18 November 2013 |publisher=Delphi Classics |pages=5697 |id=GGKEY:5Y2D7748AQ4}}
8. ^{{cite book |author=Diane Long Hoeveler |title=The Gothic Ideology: Religious Hysteria and Anti-Catholicism in British Popular Fiction, 1780-1880 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R2SuBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA330 |date=15 May 2014 |publisher=University of Wales Press |isbn=978-1-78316-049-5 |pages=330}}
9. ^{{cite book |author=Gregg Crane |title=The Cambridge Introduction to The Nineteenth-Century American Novel |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rP5Z8Twz0rEC&pg=PA17 |date=25 October 2007 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-139-46565-6 |pages=17}}
10. ^{{cite book |author1=Peter Garside |author2=Patrick Parrinder |author3=Karen O'Brien |title=The Oxford History of the Novel in English |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2iRUBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA263 |date=5 April 2015 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-957480-3 |pages=263}}
11. ^{{cite book |author1=Marcel Cornis-Pope |author2=John Neubauer |title=History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe: Junctures and Disjunctures in the 19th and 20th Centuries |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pV6sFB-KuU8C&pg=PA519 |date=1 January 2004 |publisher=John Benjamins Publishing |isbn=90-272-3452-3 |pages=519}}
12. ^{{cite book |author=Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel |title=Gesammelte Werke: Die objektive logik (1812 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=n6IctQEACAAJ |year=1812 |publisher=F. Meiner}}
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