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The year 1801 in literature involved some significant events.
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Events
- In recognition of the English attack on Copenhagen, Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger produces his first dramatic sketch.
New books
- Mary Charlton – The Pirate of Naples
- François-René de Chateaubriand – Atala
- Maria Edgeworth - Belinda
- Robert Evans – The Dream
- Elizabeth Helme – St. Margaret's Cave
- Rachel Hunter – Letitia
- Isabella Kelly – Ruthinglenne
- Sophia King – The Fatal Secret
- Mary Meeke – Which is the Man
- Agnes Musgrave – The Confession
- Amelia Opie – Father and Daughter
- Eliza Parsons – The Peasant of Ardenne Forest
- Annabella Plumptre – The Western Mail
- J. H. Sarratt – Terror of Bohemia
- Maria Lavinia Smith – The Fugitive of the Forest
- Henry Summersett – The Wizard and the Sword
- Henry Whitfield – Geraldwood
- R. P. M. Yorke – The Haunted Palace
New drama
- Friedrich von Schiller
- The Maid of Orleans (German: Die Jungfrau von Orleans)
- Maria Stuart
Poetry
- William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads (2nd edition)
Non-fiction
- Francis Barrett -The Magus, or Celestial Intelligencer
- Elizabeth Hamilton - Letters on the Elementary Principles of Education
- Arthur Murphy - Life of David Garrick
Births
- February 16 - Frederic Madden, palaeographer
- February 21 - John Henry Newman, Catholic writer
- March 4 - Karl Rudolf Hagenbach, historian
- March 15 - George Perkins Marsh, philologist
- August 10 - Christian Hermann Weisse, philosopher
- September 4 - Alfred Guillaume Gabriel, Count D'Orsay, wit
- November 3 - Karl Baedeker, publisher
- November 10 - Vladimir Dal, lexicographer
- November 22 - Abraham Hayward
- November 24 - Ludwig Bechstein
- December 4 - Karl Ludwig Michelet, philosopher
- December 7 - Johann Nestroy, dramatist
- December 11 - Christian Dietrich Grabbe, dramatist
Deaths
- March 14 - Ignacy Krasicki, poet
- March 25 - Novalis, German poet
- April 11 - Antoine de Rivarol
- September 1 - Robert Bage, novelist
Awards
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