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The year 1805 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

• Samuel Taylor Coleridge appointed Acting Public Secretary in Malta.
• Jacob Grimm is invited to Paris as an assistant to Friedrich Karl von Savigny.

New books

• Eugenia de Acton - The Nuns of the Desert
• Hosea Ballou - A Treatise on Atonement
• Sophie Ristaud Cottin - The Saracen
• Charlotte Dacre - Confessions of the Nun of St. Omer
• Robert Charles Dallas - The Morlands
• 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:
  • The Confessions of William Henry Ireland
  • Gondez the Monk
• Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool - Treatise on the Coins of the Realm
• Ellis Cornelia Knight - Description of Latium or La Campagna di Roma
• 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
• Richard Sickelmore – Rashleigh Abbey
• Mercy Otis Warren - History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution
• 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

New drama

• Alexandre-Vincent Pineux Duval - Le Menuisier de Livonie
• Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger - Hakon Jarl

Poetry

• Sir Walter Scott - The Lay of the Last Minstrel
• Sir Martin Archer Shee - Rhymes on Art
• Robert Southey - Madoc

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

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

Awards