1814 in literature
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See also: 1813 in literature, other events of 1814, 1815 in literature, list of years in literature.
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Events
- In England, a revolutionary steam-powered press prints the Times newspaper at a rate of 1100 copies per hour.
New books
- Alicia de Lacy — Jane West
- Auberry Stanhope — Jane Harvey
- The Castle of Strathmay — Honoria Scott
- Conscience — Mary Meeke
- Conviction — Anne Hatton
- Discipline — Mary Brunton
- Emily and Her Friends — Barbara Hofland
- Ethelia: a Tale — Jane Harvey
- The Excursion — William Wordsworth
- The Hypocrite — Selina Davenport
- Introduction to the Study of Bibliography — Thomas Hartwell Horne
- Madelina: A Tale Founded on Facts — Louisa Stanhope
- Mansfield Park — Jane Austen
- Patronage — Maria Edgeworth
- The Corsair - Lord Byron
- The Prison-House — Elizabeth Thomas
- The Recluse of Norway — Anna Maria Porter
- The Towers of Ravenswold — William Henry Hitchener
- Trecothick Bower — Regina Marie Roche
- The Wanderer — Fanny Burney
- Waverley — Sir Walter Scott
Births
- June 8 - Charles Reade, English writer (+ 1884)
- June 14 - Harriet Beecher Stowe (+ 1896)
- August 28 - Sheridan le Fanu, Irish writer (+ 1873)
- October 3 - Mikhail Lermontov, Russian poet (+ 1841)
- November 6 - William Wells Brown African-American writer (+ 1884)
- December 27 - Jules Simon, French philosopher
Deaths
- February 24 - Julien Louis Geoffroy, French literary critic.
- July 25 - Charles Dibdin, novelist, dramatist and actor
- December 2 - Marquis de Sade, pornographic author