1821 in literature

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… 1811 ^. 1812 ^. 1813 ^. 1814 ^. 1815 ^. 1816 ^. 1817 … 1818 1819 1820 -1821- 1822 1823 1824 … 1825 ^. 1826 ^. 1827 ^. 1828 ^. 1829 ^. 1830 ^. 1831 … In poetry: 1818 1819 1820 -1821- 1822 1823 1824
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The year 1821 in literature involved some significant events.

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In the first known obscenity case in the United States, a Massachusetts court outlawed the John Cleland novel, Fanny Hill . The publisher, Peter Holmes, was convicted for printing a "lewd and obscene" novel.
August 4 - Atkinson & Alexander publish the Saturday Evening Post for the first time as a weekly newspaper.

James Fenimore Cooper - The Spy
Thomas De Quincey - Confessions of an English Opium Eater
Pierce Egan - Life in London
John Galt
- Annals of the Parish
- The Ayrshire Legatees
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years (German: Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre)
I. M. H. Hales - Talisman, a Tale of Mystery
Ann Hatton - Lovers and Friends
C. D. Haynes - The Spectre of St. Michael's
Hannah Maria Jones – Gretna Green
Thomas H. Marshall - The Irish Necromancer
Charles Nodier - Smarra
Thomas Love Peacock - Maid Marian
Anna Maria Porter - The Village of Mariendorpt
Jane Porter - The Scottish Chiefs
Sir Walter Scott - Kenilworth