1814 in literature

See also: 1813 in literature, other events of 1814, 1815 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

• In England, a revolutionary steam-powered press prints the Times newspaper at a rate of 1100 copies per hour.

New books

• Alicia de Lacy — Jane West
• Auberry Stanhope — Jane Harvey
• The Castle of Strathmay — Honoria Scott
• Conscience — Mary Meeke
• Conviction — Anne Hatton
• Discipline — Mary Brunton
• Emily and Her Friends — Barbara Hofland
• Ethelia: a Tale — Jane Harvey
• The Excursion — William Wordsworth
• The Hypocrite — Selina Davenport
• Introduction to the Study of Bibliography — Thomas Hartwell Horne
• Madelina: A Tale Founded on Facts — Louisa Stanhope
• Mansfield Park — Jane Austen
• Patronage — Maria Edgeworth
• The Corsair – Lord Byron
• The Prison-House — Elizabeth Thomas
• The Recluse of Norway — Anna Maria Porter
• The Towers of Ravenswold — William Henry Hitchener
• Trecothick Bower — Regina Marie Roche
• The Wanderer — Fanny Burney
• Waverley — Sir Walter Scott

Births

• June 8 – Charles Reade, English writer (+ 1884)
• June 14 – Harriet Beecher Stowe (+ 1896)
• August 28 – Sheridan le Fanu, Irish writer (+ 1873)
• October 3 – Mikhail Lermontov, Russian poet (+ 1841)
• November 6 – William Wells Brown African-American writer (+ 1884)
• December 27 – Jules Simon, French philosopher

Deaths

• February 24 – Julien Louis Geoffroy, French literary critic.
• July 25 – Charles Dibdin, novelist, dramatist and actor
• December 2 – Marquis de Sade, pornographic author

Awards