Litteraturåret 1815



Hendelser

 2. januar - Lord Byron gifter seg med Anna Isabella Milbanke i Seaham, County Durham.
 7. april - Lord Byron og Walter Scott møtes for første gang, i kontorene til forleggeren John Murray, 50 Albemarle Street i London.
 Mai - Første  utgivelse av North American Review.
 15. juni - Duchess of Richmond's ball is held in Brussel on the night before the Battle of Quatre Bras (and three nights before the Battle of Waterloo) by Charlotte, Duchess of Richmond for her son, the writer Lord William Lennox. It subsequently features in literary works by Lord Byron, William Makepeace Thackeray, Charles Lever, Georgette Heyer and Bernard Cornwell.
 25. desember - Jane Austen's novel Emma is published anonymously by John Murray in London dated 1816. About 1500 copies sell over the next 5 years.
 Thomas Love Peacocks første roman Headlong Hall blir utgitt anonymt av Thomas Hookham i London, datert 1816.
 The second volume of the first edition of the Brothers Grimm's Grimms' Fairy Tales is dated this year but published late in .

Ny skjønnlitteratur
John Agg - A Month at Brussels
Jane Austen - Emma
Sarah Green - The Fugitive
Elizabeth Gunning - The Victims of Seduction
Ann Hatton - Secret Avengers
Mary Hays - The Brothers, or Consequences
E. T. A. Hoffmann - The Devil's Elixirs (Die Elixiere des Teufels)
Barbara Hofland - A Father as He Should Be
Christian Isobel Johnstone - Clan-Albin: A National Tale
Mary Meeke - The Spanish Campaign
Thomas Love Peacock - Headlong Hall
Mary Pilkington - The Unfortunate Choice
Jane Porter - The Pastor's Fireside
Regina Marie Roche - Edinburg; a Novel
Walter Scott - Guy Mannering (anonymous)
Catherine Smith - Barozzi or the Venetian Sorceress: A Romance of the Sixteenth Century
Elizabeth Thomas - The Baron of Falconberg

Ny dramatikk
Barbarina Brand - Ina, a tragedy in five acts
James Sheridan Knowles - Caius Gracchus
Jane Scott - The Gipsy Girl
Eugène Scribe and Delestre Poirson - Une Nuit de la Garde nationale

Poesi
Pierre-Jean de Béranger - Chansons I
Lord Byron - Hebrew Melodies
Percy Bysshe Shelley - Alastor, or The Spirit of Solitude
William Wordsworth - The White Doe of Rylstone

Sakprosa
 Simón Bolívar - Letter to Jamaica (6. september)
 George Cavendish -The Life and Death of Cardinal Wolsey
 Les Jeux des Jeunes Garçons
 John Malcolm - The History of Persia, from the Most Early Period to the Present Time
 Thomas Malthus - An Inquiry into the Nature and Progress of Rent

Fødsler

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|April ||24. || Anthony Trollope || engelsk || romanforfatter ||align=center|67 ||align=center| || 

|Mai
|5. || Eugène Marin Labiche || fransk || dramatiker ||align=center| ||align=center| ||
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|August
|1. || Richard Henry Dana jr. || amerikansk (USA) || romanforfatter og politiker ||align=center|66 ||align=center|1882 || 

|Oktober
|4. || Franz Jakob Clemens || tysk || filosof ||align=center| ||align=center| ||
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|rowspan=2|November
|5. || Martins Pena || brasiliansk || dramatiker ||align=center| ||align=center| ||
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|17. || Eliza Farnham || amerikansk (USA) || romanforfatter og reformer ||align=center| ||align=center| ||

|Desember
|10. || Ada Lovelace || engelsk || forfatter, datapionér og datter av Lord Byron ||align=center| ||align=center|  ||
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Dødsfall

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|rowspan=2|Januar
|21. || Matthias Claudius ("Asmus") || tysk || poet ||align=center| ||align=center| ||
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|30. || Hans Christian Amberg || dansk || leksikograf ||align=center| ||align=center| ||

|rowspan=3|November
|2. || Gottlieb Christoph Harless || tysk || bibliograf ||align=center| ||align=center| ||

|11. || Pierre-Louis Ginguené || fransk || forfatter og kritiker ||align=center| ||align=center| ||

|17. || Dorothea Viehmann || tysk || eventyrforteller ||align=center| ||align=center| ||
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|rowspan=2|Desember
|20. || Giovanni Meli || siciliansk || poet ||align=center| ||align=center| ||
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|23. || Jan Potocki || polsk || polymath ||align=center| ||align=center| ||
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Bildegalleri

Innen litteraturen
Følgende verk foregår rundt tidsrommet da slaget ved Waterloo utspilte seg:
Lord Byrons dikt Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto III ()
Robert Southeys dikt The Poet's Pilgirmage to Waterloo ()
William Hamilton Maxwells Stories from Waterloo ()
Stendhals roman The Charterhouse of Parma (La Chartreuse de Parme, ()
William Makepeace Thackerays roman Vanity Fair (-)
Victor Hugos dikt "L'Expiation" (i Les Châtiments, )
Arthur Conan Doyles roman The Great Shadow () and some of his adventures of Brigadier Gerard ()
Thomas Hardys episke versedrama The Dynasts (-)
Georgette Heyers roman An Infamous Army ()
Bernard Cornwells roman Sharpe's Waterloo ()

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