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The year 1818 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

• Lord Byron begins writing Don Juan.
• Series of lectures on poetry, drama, philosophy - Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

New books

• Jane Austen - Persuasion
• Thomas Bowdler - Family Shakespeare
• Selina Davenport - An Angel's Form and a Devil's Heart
• Susan Edmonstoune Ferrier - Marriage
• Franz Grillparzer - Sappho
• Ann Hatton - Secrets in Every Mansion
• Mary Meeke - The Veiled Protectress
• Thomas Love Peacock - Nightmare Abbey
• Anna Maria Porter - The Fast of St. Magdalen: A Romance
• Sir Walter Scott - The Heart of Midlothian
• Mary Shelley - Frankenstein
• Louisa Stanhope
  • The Bandit's Bride
  • The Nun of Santa Maria di Tindaro
• Elizabeth Thomas - Woman, or Minor Maxims; a Sketch

New drama

• Franz Grillparzer - Sapho

Poetry

• Kristijonas Donelaitis - The Seasons
• John Keats - Endymion
• Percy Bysshe Shelley - Ozymandias

Non-fiction

• Josef Dobrovsky - History of the Czech Language
• Henry Hallam - The View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages
• William Hazlitt - Lectures on the English Poets
• Charles Mills -History of Mohammedanism
• Jacques Auguste Simon Collin de Plancy - Dictionnaire Infernal

Births

• July 30 - Emily Brontë (+ 1848)
• November 9 - Ivan Turgenev (+ 1883)

Deaths

• January 11 - Johann David Wyss, author
• May 14 - Matthew Gregory Lewis, novelist and dramatist
• date unknown
  • Malcolm Laing, historian

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