Overview of the events of 1825 in literature
Overview of the events of 1825 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1825 .
February 19 – Franz Grillparzer 's König Ottokars Glück und Ende (The Fortune and Fall of King Ottokar, published 1823 ) is first performed, at the Burgtheater in Vienna, after Caroline Augusta, Empress of Austria , urges her husband Francis I of Austria to lift the censorship restrictions on it. April – Charles Lamb retires from his clerical post with the East India Company in London on superannuation . May 6 –June 15 – The two youngest Brontë sisters , Maria and Elizabeth , die at home at Haworth Parsonage aged 11 and 9, of consumption they have contracted at Cowan Bridge School . May 6 – French bibliophile, translator, lawyer and politician Henri Boulard (born 1754) dies, leaving a library of over half a million books, one of the greatest private book collections in history. December 17 – John Neal moves in with and becomes personal secretary of Jeremy Bentham , who recruits Neal to his utilitarian philosophy.[1] unknown date – The first publication of Samuel Pepys ' Diary (1660–1669) appears, edited by Lord Braybrooke from a transcription by Rev. John Smith.[2] New books [ edit ] Fiction [ edit ] Children [ edit ] Maria Hack – English Stories. Third Series, Reformation under the Tudor Princes Non-fiction [ edit ] January 11 – Bayard Taylor , American poet (died 1878 ) February 13 – Julia C. R. Dorr , American author (died 1913 ) February 18 – Mór Jókai , Hungarian novelist and dramatist (died 1904 ) March 3 – Annie Keary , English novelist, poet and children's writer (died 1879 ) March 16 – Lucy Virginia French , American author (died 1881 ) April 3 – William Billington , English poet and publican (died 1884 ) April 13 – Minnie Mary Lee , American author of poems, stories, sketches and novels (died 1903 ) April 20 – Emma Jane Guyton (Worboise), English novelist and magazine editor (died 1887 ) April 24 – R. M. Ballantyne , Scottish writer of juvenile fiction (died 1894 ) May 21 – Nancy H. Adsit , American art writer, lecturer, educator (died 1902 ) June 7 – R. D. Blackmore , English novelist (died 1900 ) June 14 – Mary Elizabeth Beauchamp , English-born American author and educator (died 1903 ) July 2 – Richard Henry Stoddard , American critic and poet (died 1903 ) July 13 – Madeleine Vinton Dahlgren , American writer, translator, and anti-suffragist (died 1889 ) July 28 – E. J. Richmond , American author (died 1918 ) October 19 – Jeanette Granberg , Swedish playwright and translator (died 1857 ) October 23 – Walter Gregor , Scottish folklorist, linguist and pastor (died 1897 ) Uncertain date – Annie French Hector (pseudonym Mrs Alexander), Irish-born novelist (died 1902 ) March 9 – Anna Laetitia Barbauld , English poet, essayist and children's author (born 1743 ) April 23 – Maler Müller , German poet, dramatist and painter (born 1749 ) June 4 – Morris Birkbeck , American writer and social reformer (born 1764 ) June 11 – Helen Craik , Scottish novelist and poet (born c. 1751) August 10 – Joseph Harris (Gomer) , Welsh poet and journalist (born 1773 ) November 7 – Charlotte Dacre , English poet and Gothic novelist (born c. 1772) November 25 – Desfontaines-Lavallée , French novelist and dramatist (born 1733 ) December 5 – Mary Whateley (Mary Darwall), English poet (born 1738 ) unknown dates References [ edit ] ^ Richards, Irving T. (2018) [Originally published as in The New England Quarterly , vol. 7, no. 2, June 1834, pp. 335-355]. "Mary Gove Nichols and John Neal". In DiMercurio, Catherine C. (ed.). Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism: Criticism of the Works of Novelists, Philosophers, and Other Creative Writers Who Dies between 1800 and 1899, from the First Published Critical Evaluations . Vol. 356. Farmington Hills, Michigan: Gale. p. 178n62. ISBN 978-1-4103-7851-4 . ^ Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2003). A Book I Value: Selected Marginalia . Princeton University Press. p. 179. ISBN 0-691-11317-3 . ^ Sears, Donald A. (1978). John Neal . Boston, Massachusetts: Twayne Publishers. p. 145. ISBN 080-5-7723-08 . ^ "Supplement to the Local Gazetteer of Wu Prefecture" . World Digital Library . 1134. Retrieved 2013-09-06 . ^ Taiping Chang Knechtges (14 September 2017). A Dictionary of Chinese Literature . OUP Oxford. p. 54. ISBN 978-0-19-251393-9 . ^ The Gentleman's Magazine . F. Jefferies. 1825. pp. 11–.