1800 in literature

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The year 1800 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

January 10 – The Serampore Mission and Press is established in Serampore (now part of West Bengal) India by Baptist missionaries Joshua Marshman and William Ward. The press will grow into the largest in Asia, printing books in nearly every Indian language.^[1]
April 24 – The United States establishes the Library of Congress.
June 14 – Friedrich Schiller's historical drama Mary Stuart has its première in Weimar.
October 3 – William and Dorothy Wordsworth, walking near Grasmere in the English Lake District, encounter a leech gatherer who inspires his poem "Resolution and Independence", first written 18 months later.^[2]
William Blake begins 3 years residence in a cottage at Felpham in Sussex to illustrate the works of William Hayley; here he begins work on his poem Milton.
English "ploughboy poet" Robert Bloomfield's The Farmer's Boy is published with engravings by Thomas Bewick, selling over 25,000 copies in the next two years, with 15 editions by 1827 and a number of translations.^[3]^[4]
Maria Edgeworth's first extended work of fiction, Castle Rackrent ("an Hiberian Tale: Taken from Facts, and from the Manners of the Irish Squires, Before the Year 1782"), is published anonymously in London, variously regarded as the first historical novel, the first regional novel in English, the first Anglo-Irish novel, the first Big House novel, the first saga novel and the first with an unreliable narrator.^[5]

Jacob Boehme - L'aurore naissante (translated into French by Louis Claude de Saint-Martin)
Elizabeth Hamilton - Memoirs of Modern Philosophers
Arnold Hermann Ludwig Heeren - Geschichte des europäischen Staatensystems
Immanuel Kant - Logik
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling - System of Transcendental Idealism (System des transcendentalen Idealismus)
Parson Weems - A History of the Life and Death, Virtues and Exploits of General George Washington

January 6 – Anna Maria Hall, Irish novelist (died 1881)
March 25 – Alexis Paulin Paris, French editor of medieval manuscripts (died 1881)
April 17 – Catherine Sinclair, Scottish novelist and children's writer (died 1864)
May 5 – Louis Christophe François Hachette, French publisher (died 1864)
October 18 – Sir Henry Taylor, English dramatist and poet (died 1886)
October 25 – Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, English-born poet and historian (died 1859)
November 27 – Fanny Kemble, English actress and writer (died 1893
Unknown dates
- Thomas Henry Lister, English novelist and Registrar General (died 1842)
- Wanda Malecka, Polish translator, poet and novelist (died 1860)

January 22 – George Steevens, English Shakespearean commentator (born 1736)
February 22 – Joseph Warton, English academic and literary critic (born 1722)
March 14 – Daines Barrington, English lawyer, antiquary and naturalist (born c. 1727)
March 29 – Marc René, marquis de Montalembert, French military engineer and writer (born 1714)
April 25 – William Cowper, English poet (born 1731)

↑ Das, Sisir Kumar (2006). "A Chronology of Literary Events, 1800–1910". In A History of Indian Literature: Western Impact, Indian Response, 1800–1910. Sahitya Akademi, 2006. Retrieved via Google Books, July 16, 2009.
↑ Sutherland, John; Fender, Stephen (2011). "3 October". Love, Sex, Death & Words: Surprising Tales from a Year in Literature. London: Icon. pp. 375–6. ISBN 978-184831-247-0.
↑ Kaloustian, David (2004). "Bloomfield, Robert (1766–1823)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. Retrieved 2012-03-04. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
↑ Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
↑ Kirkpatrick, Kathryn J. (1995). "Introduction to Castle Rackrent". Oxford University Press.