1821 in literature
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The year 1821 in literature involved some significant events.
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Events
- In the first known obscenity case in the United States, a Massachusetts court outlawed the John Cleland novel, Fanny Hill . The publisher, Peter Holmes, was convicted for printing a "lewd and obscene" novel.
- August 4 - Atkinson & Alexander publish the Saturday Evening Post for the first time as a weekly newspaper.
New books
- James Fenimore Cooper - The Spy
- Thomas De Quincey - Confessions of an English Opium Eater
- Pierce Egan - Life in London
- John Galt
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years (Template:Lang-ger)
- I. M. H. Hales - Talisman, a Tale of Mystery
- Ann Hatton - Lovers and Friends
- C. D. Haynes - The Spectre of St. Michael's
- Hannah Maria Jones – Gretna Green
- Thomas H. Marshall - The Irish Necromancer
- Charles Nodier - Smarra
- Thomas Love Peacock - Maid Marian
- Anna Maria Porter - The Village of Mariendorpt
- Jane Porter - The Scottish Chiefs
- Sir Walter Scott - Kenilworth
New drama
- Alexandre-Vincent Pineux Duval - Le Faux Bonhomme
- Franz Grillparzer - Das Goldene Vliess
Poetry
- Heinrich Heine - Poems
- Alessandro Manzoni - Il Cinque Maggio
Non-fiction
- George Grote - Statement of the Question of Parliamentary Reform
- William Hazlitt - Table Talk
- James Mill - Elements of Political Economy
- John Roberton - Kalogynomia, or the Laws of Female Beauty
- Robert Southey - Life of Cromwell
Births
- March 19 - Richard Francis Burton (+ 1890)
- April 9 - Charles Baudelaire (+ 1867)
- October 30 - Fyodor Dostoevsky (+ 1881)
- November 28 - Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov (+ 1877)
- December 6 - Dora Greenwell (+ 1882)
- December 12 - Gustave Flaubert (+ 1880)
Deaths
- January 14 - Jens Zetlitz, Norwegian poet
- February 23 - John Keats, poet
- February 26 - Joseph de Maistre, philosopher
- March 17 - Louis-Marcelin de Fontanes, poet
- May 2 - Hester Thrale, diarist and friend of Dr Johnson
- August 1 - Elizabeth Inchbald, writer
Awards
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