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Overview of the events of 1815 in literature
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1815 .
Events First issue of the North American Review with signature of its editor William Tudor . January 2 – Lord Byron marries Anna Isabella Milbanke at Seaham , County Durham .April 7 – Lord Byron and Walter Scott meet for the first time, in the offices of publisher John Murray , 50 Albemarle Street in London.[1] May – First publication of the North American Review . June 15 – The Duchess of Richmond's ball is held in Brussels on the night before the Battle of Quatre Bras (and three nights before the Battle of Waterloo ) by Charlotte, Duchess of Richmond for her son, the writer Lord William Lennox . It subsequently features in literary works by Lord Byron , William Makepeace Thackeray , Charles Lever , Georgette Heyer , Bernard Cornwell and Julian Fellowes .[2] [3] December 23 Thomas Love Peacock 's first novel Headlong Hall is published anonymously by Thomas Hookham in London, dated 1816.[6] First complete publication of the Old English epic poem Beowulf , in a Latin translation by Icelandic-Danish scholar Grímur Jónsson Thorkelin . The second volume of the first edition of the Brothers Grimm 's Grimms' Fairy Tales is dated this year but published late in 1814 . New books Fiction Children and young people Drama Poetry Non-fiction Births January 7 – E. Louisa Mather , American writer (died 1882 )February 19 – Elizabeth Missing Sewell , English novelist and educationist (died 1906 )April 24 – Anthony Trollope , English novelist (died 1882 )[9] April 25 – Richard William Church , English biographer and cleric (died 1890 )May 5 – Eugène Marin Labiche , French dramatist (died 1888 )July 17 – Thekla Knös , Swedish poet (died 1880 )August 1 – Marițica Bibescu , Wallachian poet and literary patron (died 1859 )October 4 – Franz Jakob Clemens , German philosopher (died 1862 )November 5 – Martins Pena , Brazilian dramatist (died 1848 )November 17 – Eliza Farnham , American novelist and reformer (died 1864 )December 10 – Augusta Ada King (née Byron), Countess of Lovelace , English mathematician and writer on computing (died 1852 )December 20 – James Legge , Scottish sinologist, missionary and translator (died 1897 )unknown date – Meenakshi Sundaram Pillai , Tamil scholar and poet (died 1876 )Deaths January 21 – Matthias Claudius (Asmus), German poet (born 1740 )January 30 – Hans Christian Amberg , Danish lexicographer (born 1749 )[10] March 4 – Frances Abington , née Barton, English actress (born 1737 )[11] April 13 – Thomas Bayly Howell , English legal writer (born 1767 )September 13 – Mihály Gáber , Slovene writer in Hungary (born c. 1753)November 2 – Gottlieb Christoph Harless , German bibliographer (born 1738 )November 11 – Pierre-Louis Ginguené , French writer and critic (born 1748 )November 17 – Dorothea Viehmann , German fairy-story teller (born 1755 )December 20 – Giovanni Meli , Sicilian poet (born 1740 )[12] December 23 – Jan Potocki , Polish polymath (born 1761 )References