1811 in literature

See also: 1810 in literature, other events of 1811, 1812 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

New books

• Ballad Romances, and Other Poems – Anna Maria Porter
• Barozzi – Catherine Smith
• The Caledonian Banditti – Catherine Smith
• Elfrida, Heiress of Belgrove – Emma Parker
• Glencarron: a Scottish Tale – Sarah Wigley
• The Institute: a Heroic Poem – Thomas Pringle
• Michael Kohlhaas – Heinrich von Kleist
• The Mysterious Hand – Augustus Jacob Crandolpho
• The Necessity of Atheism – Percy Bysshe Shelley
• The Passions – Charlotte Dacre
• St. Irvyne – Percy Bysshe Shelley
• The Schoolmistress – Rachel Hunter
• Seabrook Village and Its Inhabitants – Sophia F Ziegenhirt
• Self-Control – Mary Brunton
• Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
• Stratagems Defeated – Mary Meeke
• Undine – Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué

Births

• January 9 – Gilbert Abbott a Beckett (+ 1856)
• February 1 – Arthur Henry Hallam, poet (+ 1833)
• February 19 – Jules Sandeau, French dramatist and novelist
• July 18 – William Makepeace Thackeray (+ 1863)
• August 31 – Theophile Gautier, poet, novelist (+ 1872)
• September 17 – August Blanche, Swedish writer, statesman (d. 1868)

Deaths

• January 10 – Joseph Chénier, poet and dramatist, brother of André Chénier
• May 7 – Richard Cumberland (dramatist)
• September 14 – James Grahame, poet
• September 30 – Bishop Thomas Percy, collector of Percy's Reliques
• November 21 – Heinrich von Kleist, poet

Awards