1801 in literature
See also: 1800 in literature, other events of 1801, 1802 in literature, list of years in literature.
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Events
New books
- Atala – François-René de Chateaubriand
- The Confession – Agnes Musgrave
- The Dream – Robert Evans
- The Fatal Secret – Sophia King
- The Fugitive of the Forest – Maria Lavinia Smith
- The Haunted Palace – R.P.M. Yorke
- Letitia – Rachel Hunter
- Life of David Garrick – Arthur Murphy
- Lyrical Ballads (2nd edition) – William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- The Pirate of Naples – Mary Charlton
- Ruthinglenne – Isabella Kelly
- St. Margaret's Cave – Elisabeth Helme
- Terror of Bohemia – J.H. Sarratt
- Which is the Man – Mary Meeke
- The Wizard and the Sword – Henry Summersett
New drama
- Die Jungfrau von Orleans – Friedrich von Schiller
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 11 – Christian Dietrich Grabbe, dramatist
Deaths
- March 25 – Novalis, German poet
- April 11 – Antoine de Rivarol
- September 1 – Robert Bage, novelist
Awards
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