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Overview of the events of 1817 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1817 .
Events
January 27 –
March 18 –
Jane Austen begins, but abandons her novel
Sanditon ("Three Brothers").
[1]
February 12 –
Junius Brutus Booth makes his stage debut in the title role of Shakespeare's
Richard III at the
Theatre Royal, Covent Garden in London.
[2]
February 20 –
Junius Brutus Booth as
Iago plays opposite
Edmund Kean in the title role of
Othello at the
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in London.
[2]
March –
Percy and
Mary Shelley with
Claire Clairmont and the latter's new daughter by
Lord Byron ,
Allegra (at this time called
Alba ), having moved from
Bath , begin a year's residence in
Marlow, Buckinghamshire , England, where Mary completes
Frankenstein and gives birth to her third child, and Percy writes
The Revolt of Islam .
[3]
April 1 –
Blackwood's Magazine is launched as the
Edinburgh Monthly Magazine . In October the publisher,
William Blackwood , relaunches it as Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine .
August 6 –
Gas lighting on stage is introduced in London's
English Opera House (extended to the auditorium on September 8). On September 6 it is introduced at the
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane , where it has already been installed in the auditorium and foyer, and the
Theatre Royal, Covent Garden , as a demonstration.
[4]
December 18 –
20 –
William Hone successfully defends himself in a London court on charges arising from his publication of political satires.
December 28 – English painter
Benjamin Haydon introduces
John Keats to
William Wordsworth and
Charles Lamb at a dinner in London to celebrate progress on his painting Christ's Entry into Jerusalem , in which all feature.
[5]
December 31 –
Walter Scott 's historical novel
Rob Roy , written from this spring, is published anonymously by
Archibald Constable in Edinburgh, while a shipload of copies is carried from
Leith to London for simultaneous publication there by
Longman .
[6]
December –
Jane Austen 's first and last completed novels, respectively
Northanger Abbey and
Persuasion are published together by
John Murray in London (dated 1818), six months after the author's death at
Winchester . Her brother Henry Austen contributes a biographical note, which first publicly identifies her as the author of her previously anonymous novels. She had earned £684 in her lifetime from her writing.
unknown –
J. & J. Harper publishing house is founded in New York City by
James Harper and his brother John.
[7]
New books
Fiction
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
February 21 –
José Zorrilla y Moral , Spanish poet and dramatist (died
1893 )
March 19 –
Jozef Miloslav Hurban , Slovak writer, radical and minister (died
1886 )
May 7 –
Euphemia Vale Blake , British-born American author and critic (died
1904 )
May 21 –
Hermann Lotze , German philosopher (died
1881 )
July 12 –
Henry David Thoreau , American poet and philosopher (died
1862 )
September 5 –
Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy , Russian poet, dramatist and novelist (died
1875 )
September 14 –
Theodor Storm , German novelist and poet (died
1888 )
December 31 –
James T. Fields , American publisher (died
1881 )
Deaths
References
^ Lane, Anthony (6 March 2017).
"Reading Jane Austen's Final, Unfinished Novel" .
The New Yorker . Retrieved 26 March 2019 .
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b Taylor, Dave (2013-12-28).
"When Junius Took the Stage – Part 5" . BoothieBarn . Retrieved 2014-05-20 .
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"The Shelleys Move to Marlow – Frankenstein Completed" . Frankenstein Diaries . Retrieved 2020-08-03 .
^
"Theatres Compete in Race to Install Gas Illumination – 1817" (PDF) . Over The Footlights . Retrieved 2014-05-20 .
^
Plumly, Stanley (2014).
The Immortal Evening: a legendary dinner with Keats, Wordsworth and Lamb . New York: W. W. Norton & Co.
ISBN
978-0-393-08099-5 .
^ Scott, Walter (2010) [1829].
Lang, Andrew (ed.). Rob Roy . Norwalk, CT: Easton Press. p. 69. It is an event unprecedented in the annals either of literature or of the custom-house that the entire cargo of a packet, or smack, bound from Leith to London, should be the impression of a novel.
^ Tina Grant (1996).
International Directory of Company Histories . St. James Press. p. 216.
ISBN
978-1-55862-218-0 .
^ Mihir Bose: A Hatred for Hindus, History Today (Vol 66/12, December 2016), p. 3.
^ This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
public domain : Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "
José Mariano Beristain y Martin de Souza ".
Catholic Encyclopedia . New York: Robert Appleton Company.
^ Heiner F. Klemme; Manfred Kuehn (30 June 2016).
The Bloomsbury Dictionary of Eighteenth-Century German Philosophers . Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 730.
ISBN
978-1-4742-5600-1 .
^ Germaine de Staël; Madame De Sta?l; Stael, Mad (1998).
Corinne, or Italy . Oxford University Press. p. 1.
ISBN
978-0-19-282505-6 .
^
"BBC - History - Jane Austen" . www.bbc.co.uk . Retrieved 26 March 2019 .
^ Leopold Auburger (1999).
Die kroatische Sprache und der Serbokroatismus (in German). Hess. p. 99.
ISBN
978-3-87336-009-9 .