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1822 in literature
Overview of the events of 1822 in literature
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- March – The Noctes Ambrosianae, imaginary colloquies, begin to appear in Blackwood's Magazine (Edinburgh).
- June 16 – Mary Shelley suffers a miscarriage.
- July 18 – The body of English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, is washed up on the beach near Viareggio in Italy, ten days after he left Livorno (where he set up The Liberal magazine with Leigh Hunt) for Lerici, where Shelley had been living with his wife Mary; his boat, the Don Juan, had sunk in a storm in the Ligurian Sea. His body is cremated on the beach in the presence of Lord Byron and Edward John Trelawny, who claims to have seized Shelley's heart from the flames.[1]
Fiction
- Richard Henry Dana Sr. – Paul Felton
- Kenelm Henry Digby – The Broad-Stone of Honour
- Thomas Gaspey – The Lollards
- Sarah Green – Nuptial Discoveries
- Jane Harvey – Singularity
- Ann Hatton – Guilty or Not Guilty
- Washington Irving – Bracebridge Hall
- Lady Caroline Lamb – Graham Hamilton
- John Neal (anonymously) – Logan, a Family History
- John Gibson Lockhart – Adam Blair
- Charles Nodier – Trilby, ou le lutin d'Argail
- Anna Maria Porter – The Hunters of the Pyrenees
- Rosalia St. Clair – Clavering Tower
- Sir Walter Scott (as "the author of Waverley")
- Catharine Maria Sedgwick – A New England Tale
Children and young people
- Hans Christian Andersen – Ghost at Palnatoke's Grave
- Charlotte Anley – Influence. A Moral Tale for Young People
- Susannah Moodie – Spartacus
- Mary Martha Sherwood – The History of Henry Milner
- Agnes Strickland – The Moss-House: In Which Many of the Works of Nature Are Rendered a Source of Amusement to Children
Drama
- Franz Grillparzer – The Golden Fleece (Das goldene Vlies)
- Alessandro Manzoni – Adelchi
- Richard Lalor Sheil – The Huguenot
Poetry
- Lord Byron – The Vision of Judgment
- António Feliciano de Castilho – Primavera
- Eleanor Anne Porden – Cœur de Lion
- Alexander Pushkin - The Prisoner of the Caucasus
- Percy Bysshe Shelley – Hellas
Non-fiction
- Thomas de Quincey (anonymously) – Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (book publication)
- John Claudius Loudon – An Encyclopaedia of Gardening
- February 10 – Eliza Lynn Linton, English novelist and journalist (died 1898)
- February 22 – Frances Elizabeth Barrow, American author of children's stories (died 1894)[2]
- May 26 – Edmond de Goncourt, French literary critic and publisher (died 1896)
- December 24 – Matthew Arnold, English poet (died 1888)
- Boleslav Markevich, Russian writer (died 1884)[3]
- March 19 – Józef Wybicki, Polish poet (born 1747)
- March 27 – Sir Alexander Boswell, 1st Baronet, Scottish politician, poet, songwriter and antiquary, killed in duel (born 1775)
- June 25 – E. T. A. Hoffmann, German Romantic writer (born 1776)[4]
- July 8 – Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet and radical (born 1792)[1]
- December 7 – John Aikin, English physician and miscellanist (born 1747)
- December 8 – Saul Ascher, German political writer and translator (born 1767)
- Chancellor's Gold Medal – John Henry Bright[5]
- Newdigate Prize – A. Barber
- "The Sinking of the Don Juan" by Donald Prell, Keats–Shelley Journal, Vol. LVI, 2007, pp. 136–54
- Christian Herald (1903). The Crown Encyclopedia and Gazetteer: A Reference Library of Universal Knowledge, Embracing Five Hundred Illustrations and Over Sixty-five Thousand Subjects, All Brought Down to the Date of Publication, with Ninety-six Colored Maps (Public domain ed.). Christian Herald. pp. 205–.
- J. Alexander Ogden; Judith E. Kalb (2001). Russian Novelists in the Age of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. Gale Group. p. 192. ISBN 978-0-7876-4655-4.
- Birgit Röder; R?der (2003). A Study of the Major Novellas of E.T.A. Hoffmann. Boydell & Brewer. p. 34. ISBN 978-1-57113-271-0.
- University of Cambridge (1859). A Complete Collection of the English Poems which Have Obtained the Chancellor's Gold Medal in the University of Cambridge (PDF). Cambridge: W. Metcalfe. Retrieved 2008-10-01.