1805 in literature
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See also: 1804 in literature, other events of 1805, 1806 in literature, list of years in literature.
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[edit] Events
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge appointed Acting Public Secretary in Malta.
- Jacob Grimm is invited to Paris as an assistant to Friedrich Karl von Savigny.
[edit] New books
- Eugenia de Acton - The Nuns of the Desert
- Sophie Ristaud Cottin - The Saracen
- Charlotte Dacre - Confessions of the Nun of St. Omer
- Denis Diderot - Rameau's Nephew
- Maria Edgeworth - The Modern Griselda
- Elizabeth Helme
- The Chronicles of Christabelle de Mowbray
- The Pilgrims of the Cross
- William Henry Ireland - Gondez the Monk
- Matthew Gregory Lewis - The Bravo of Venice
- Mary Meeke - The Wonder of the Village
- Anna Maria Porter - A Sailor's Friendship, and A Soldier's Love
- Catherine Selden - Villa Nova
- William Frederick Williams - The Witcheries of Craig Isaf
- Sophia Woodfall - The Child of the Abbey
- R. P. M. Yorke - My Master's Secret
- Mary Julia Young - The Witches of Glenshiel
[edit] New drama
- Alexandre-Vincent Pineux Duval - Le Menuisier de Livonie
- Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger - Hakon Jarl
[edit] Poetry
- Sir Walter Scott - The Lay of the Last Minstrel
- Sir Martin Archer Shee - Rhymes on Art
- Robert Southey - Madoc
[edit] Non-fiction
- Hosea Ballou - A Treatise on Atonement
- Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool - Treatise on the Coins of the Realm
[edit] Births
- February 4 - William Harrison Ainsworth, novelist (+ 1882)
- April 2 - Hans Christian Andersen, writer (+ 1875)
- July 29 - Alexis de Tocqueville, writer (+ 1859)
- August 29 - Frederick Maurice, theologian and novelist
- September 19 - John Stevens Cabot Abbott, historian
- December 23 - Joseph Smith, Jr., founder and prophet of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
[edit] Deaths
- March 29 - Jean Elliot, Scottish poet
- May 9 - Friedrich Schiller, German playwright
- May 25 - William Paley, philosopher
- June 18 - Arthur Murphy, who wrote as "Charles Ranger"
- July 27 - Brian Merriman, Irish language poet
- August 3 - Christopher Anstey, poet
- September 3 - Johann Martin Abele, publisher
