1805 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1805.

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Events

• January–September – Samuel Taylor Coleridge serves as Acting Public Secretary in Malta.
• Early – Jacob Grimm is invited to Paris as an assistant to Friedrich Karl von Savigny.

Uncertain dates

• The new Theatre Royal, Bath, opens in England, replacing the Old Orchard Street Theatre.
• Henry Thomas Colebrooke makes the first translation into English of the Sanskrit Aitareya Upanishad.

New books

Fiction

• Eugenia de Acton – The Nuns of the Desert
• Sophie Ristaud Cottin – Mathilde (translated as The Saracen; or Matilda and Malek Adhel: A Crusade Romance)
• Charlotte Dacre – Confessions of the Nun of St. Omer
• Robert Charles Dallas – The Morlands
• Maria Edgeworth – The Modern Griselda
• Jean-Baptiste Cousin de Grainville – Le Dernier Homme
• Elizabeth Helme:
  • The Chronicles of Christabelle de Mowbray
  • The Pilgrims of the Cross
• William Henry Ireland – Gondez the Monk
• Matthew Gregory Lewis – The Bravo of Venice
• Mary Meeke – The Wonder of the Village
• Anna Maria Porter
  • A Sailor's Friendship
  • A Soldier's Love
• Jan Potocki – The Manuscript Found in Saragossa (Manuscrit trouvé à Saragosse, first ten "days")
• Catherine Selden – Villa Nova

Children

• Ann Taylor and Jane Taylor – Original Poems for Infant Minds by several young persons, vol. 2
• Achim von Arnim and Clemens Brentano (edited and composed) – Des Knaben Wunderhorn, vol. 1

Drama

• Alexandre-Vincent Pineux Duval – Le Menuisier de Livonie
• Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger – Hakon Jarl

Poetry

• Ivan Pnin – God
• Walter Scott – The Lay of the Last Minstrel
• Martin Archer Shee – Rhymes on Art
• Robert Southey – Madoc

Non-fiction

• Hosea Ballou – A Treatise on Atonement
• James Belcher – "Treatice [sic.] on Boxing by Mr. J. Belcher" (article in George Barrington, New London Year)
• Henry Thomas Colebrooke
  • Essay on the Vedas
  • A Grammar of the Sanskrit Language
• Denis Diderot (posthumously) – Rameau's Nephew (in a German translation by Goethe)
• William Henry Ireland – The Confessions of William Henry Ireland
• Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool – Treatise on the Coins of the Realm
• Ellis Cornelia Knight – Description of Latium or La Campagna di Roma
• Richard Payne Knight – An Analytical Inquiry into the Principles of Taste
• Jane Marcet (anonymously) – Conversations on Chemistry[1]
• Mercy Otis Warren – History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution

Births

• February 4 – William Harrison Ainsworth, English historical novelist (died 1882)
• April 2 – Hans Christian Andersen, Danish writer (died 1875)
• July 29 – Alexis de Tocqueville, French writer (died 1859)
• August 29 – F. D. Maurice, English theologian and novelist (died 1872)
• September 19 – John Stevens Cabot Abbott, American historian (died 1877)
• December 23 – Joseph Smith, American founder and prophet of the Latter Day Saint movement (killed 1844)

Schiller on his deathbed – drawing by Ferdinand Jagemann

Deaths

• February 24 – Ralph Broome, English pamphleteer (born 1742)
• March 29 – Jean Elliot, Scottish poet (born 1727)
• May 9 – Friedrich Schiller, German playwright (born 1759)
• May 25 – William Paley, English philosopher (born 1743)
  • Anna Maria Rückerschöld, Swedish author (born 1725)
• June 18 – Arthur Murphy (Charles Ranger), Irish writer (born 1727)
• July 27 – Brian Merriman (Brian Mac Giolla Meidhre), Irish-language poet (born c. 1749)
• August 3 – Christopher Anstey, English poet (born 1724)
• Early September – Mary Deverell, English religious writer, essayist and poet (born 1731)
• September 3 – Johann Martin Abele, German publisher (born 1753)

Uncertain dates

• Ji Yun (纪昀), Chinese poet and scholar (born 1724)
• Anna Hammar-Rosén, Swedish publisher (born 1735)

In literature

• Benito Pérez Galdós' novel Trafalgar (1872) is set at this time.
• Leo Tolstoy's novel War and Peace (1869), entitled The Year 1805 in an earlier version, opens in this year.

References

1. Morse, Elizabeth J. (2004). "Marcet, Jane Haldimand (1769–1858)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/18029. Retrieved 2013-10-14. (subscription or UK public library membership required)