1807 in literature

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The year 1807 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

January - Heinrich von Kleist sets out for Dresden, but is arrested by the French as a spy and kept a prisoner for six months at Châlons-sur-Marne.^[1]
January 24 - Washington Irving launches the satirical magazine Salmagundi in New York City.
June 24 - The Tout-Paris assist in the first production of the Panorama de Momus, a vaudeville by Marc-Antoine Désaugiers.
July 13 - Heinrich von Kleist is released from prison in France.
Publication in Britain of the first edition of The Family Shakspeare, an expurgated edition of Shakespeare's plays under the nominal editorship of Thomas Bowdler but probably mostly compiled by his sister Henrietta Maria Bowdler.
Publication by Edward and Joseph Wright in London of the first facsimile edition of the Shakespeare First Folio, under the editorship of Francis Douce.
Charles Wiley founds a print shop in Manhattan, which eventually grows into the John Wiley & Sons book publishing empire.

February 27 - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet (died 1882)
June 30 - Friedrich Theodor Vischer, German author (died 1887)
September 9 - Richard Chenevix Trench, British poet (died 1886)
October 23 - Baroness Tautphoeus, née Jemima Montgomery, British-born novelist (died 1893)
October 30 - Christopher Wordsworth, English Biblical editor and commentator, nephew of William Wordsworth (died 1885)
November 16 - Jónas Hallgrímsson, Icelandic author (died 1845)

January 5 - Isaac Reed, Shakespearean editor (born 1742)
February 18 - Sophie von La Roche, novelist (born 1730)
June 14 - Louis Bruyas, dramatist and actor (born 1738)
July 24 - John Christopher Kunze, theologian (born 1744)
August 1 - John Walker, lexicographer (born 1732)
December 19 - Friedrich Melchior, baron von Grimm, memoirist and literary correspondent (born 1723)
December 21 - John Newton, songwriter ("Amazing Grace") (born 1725)

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