1806 In Literature

Events

• Noah Webster publishes his first English dictionary.

New books

• The Anglo-Saxons - Leslie Armstrong
• The Castle of Tynemouth - Jane Harvey
• Feudal Tyrants - Matthew Gregory Lewis
• The Heirs of Villeroy - Henrietta Rouviere Mosse
• Lady Maclairn, The Victim of Villany - Rachel Hunter
• Leonora - Maria Edgeworth
• Montbrasil Abbey - Louisa Stanhope
• The Mysterious Freebooter - Francis Lathom
• Santo Sebastiano - Catherine Cuthbertson
• The Spanish Outlaw - William Herbert
• Vensenshon - Harriet Butler
• Vivonio - Sophia Frances
• The Wild Irish Girl - Lady Morgan
• Zofloya - Charlotte Dacre

Births

• March 6 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, poet (+ 1861)
• April 17 - William Gilmore Simms, author (+ 1870)
• July 20 - John Sterling, author
• August 31 - Charles Lever, Anglo-Irish novelist (+ 1872)

Deaths

• February 12 - Gabriel-Henri Gaillard, French historian
• February 24 - Collin d'Harleville, French dramatist
• March 3 - Heinrich Christian Boie, German poet and editor
• April 4 - Carlo Gozzi, Venetian dramatist
• October 28 - Charlotte Turner Smith, poet and novelist
• November 23 - Sir Roger Newdigate, founder of the Newdigate prize

Awards

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