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1821 in literature
See also:
1820 in literature
,
other events of 1821
,
1822 in literature
,
list of years in literature
.
Table of contents
1 Events
2 New Books
3 Births
4 Deaths
5 Awards
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.
New Books
Annals of the Parish[?]
-
John Galt[?]
The Ayrshire Legatees[?]
-
John Gait[?]
Confessions of an English Opium Eater[?]
-
Thomas De Quincey[?]
The Irish Necromancer[?]
-
Thomas H. Marshall[?]
Kenilworth
-
Sir Walter Scott
Life in London[?]
-
Pierce Egan
Lovers and Friends[?]
-
Anne Hatton[?]
Maid Marian[?]
-
Thomas Love Peacock
Smarra[?]
-
Charles Nodier[?]
The Spectre of St. Michael's[?]
-
C. D. Haynes[?]
The Spy[?]
-
James Fenimore Cooper
Talisman, a Tale of Mystery[?]
-
I. M. H. Hales[?]
The Village of Mariendorpt[?]
-
Anna Maria Porter[?]
Births
March 19
-
Richard Francis Burton
(+
1890
)
April 9
-
Charles-Pierre Baudelaire
(+
1867
)
October 30
-
Fyodor Dostoevsky
(+
1881
)
December 6
-
Dora Greenwell[?]
(+
1882
)
December 12
-
Gustave Flaubert
(+
1880
)
Deaths
February 23
-
John Keats
, poet
August 1
-
Elizabeth Inchbald[?]
, writer
Awards
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