1815 in literature

See also: 1814 in literature, other events of 1815, 1816 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

• The Brothers Grimm complete the writing of Grimms' Fairy Tales

New books

• Adolphe – Benjamin Constant
• The Baron of Falconberg – Elizabeth Thomas
• Barozzi or the Venetian Sorceress: A Romance of the Sixteenth Century – Catherine Smith
• The Brothers, or Consequences – Mary Hays
• The Devil's Elixir – Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann
• Edinburg; a Novel – Regina Marie Roche
• A Father as He Should Be – Barbara Hofland
• The Fugitive – Sarah Green
• Guy Mannering – Sir Walter Scott
• The Life and Death of Cardinal Wolsey – George Cavendish
• The Pastor's Fireside – Jane Porter
• The Rock of Glotzden – Anne Hatton
• Secret Avengers – Ann Hatton
• The Spanish Campaign – Mary Meeke
• The Unfortunate Choice – Mary Pilkington
• The Victims of Seduction – Elizabeth Gunning

Births

• April 24 – Anthony Trollope (+ 1882)
• May 5 – Eugène Marin Labiche

Deaths

• November 11 – Pierre-Louis Ginguené

Awards