1801 in literature
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See also: 1800 in literature, other events of 1801, 1802 in literature, list of years in literature.
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Events
New books
- Atala - François-René de Chateaubriand
- The Confession - Agnes Musgrave
- The Dream - Robert Evans
- The Fatal Secret - Sophia King
- The Fugitive of the Forest - Maria Lavinia Smith
- The Haunted Palace - R.P.M. Yorke
- Letitia - Rachel Hunter
- Life of David Garrick - Arthur Murphy
- Lyrical Ballads (2nd edition) - William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- The Pirate of Naples - Mary Charlton
- Ruthinglenne - Isabella Kelly
- St. Margaret's Cave - Elisabeth Helme
- Terror of Bohemia - J.H. Sarratt
- Which is the Man - Mary Meeke
- The Wizard and the Sword - Henry Summersett
New drama
- Die Jungfrau von Orleans - Friedrich von Schiller
Births
- February 16 - Frederic Madden, palaeographer
- February 21 - John Henry Newman, Catholic writer
- March 4 - Karl Rudolf Hagenbach, historian
- March 15 - George Perkins Marsh, philologist
- August 10 - Christian Hermann Weisse, philosopher
- September 4 - Alfred Guillaume Gabriel, Count D'Orsay, wit
- November 3 - Karl Baedeker, publisher
- November 10 - Vladimir Dal, lexicographer
- November 22 - Abraham Hayward
- November 24 - Ludwig Bechstein
- December 4 - Karl Ludwig Michelet, philosopher
- December 11 - Christian Dietrich Grabbe, dramatist
Deaths
- March 25 - Novalis, German poet
- April 11 - Antoine de Rivarol
- September 1 - Robert Bage, novelist