Editing 1807 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of '''1807'''.

==Events==
*January – [[Heinrich von Kleist]] sets out for Dresden, but is arrested by the French as a spy and kept a prisoner for six months at [[Châlons-sur-Marne]].<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MIlpQHE7RCUC&pg=PA5 |first=Bernd |last=Fischer |title=A Companion to the Works of Heinrich Von Kleist |publisher=Camden House |year=2003 |page=5}}</ref>
*[[January 24]] – [[Washington Irving]] launches the satirical magazine ''[[Salmagundi (periodical)|Salmagundi]]'' in [[New York City]].
*[[June 24]] – The [[Tout-Paris]] assist in the first production of the ''Panorama de Momus'', a vaudeville by [[Marc-Antoine Désaugiers]].
*[[July 13]] – [[Heinrich von Kleist]] is released from prison in France.
*''unknown dates''
**The first edition of ''The Family Shakspeare'', an [[expurgated]] edition of [[William Shakespeare|Shakespeare]]'s plays under the nominal editorship of [[Thomas Bowdler]], but probably compiled mostly by his sister [[Henrietta Maria Bowdler]], appears in London.<ref>{{cite book|author=Aron Thompson|title=Women Reading Shakespeare, 1660-1900: An Anthology of Criticism|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Xd9RAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA46|year=1997|publisher=Manchester University Press|isbn=978-0-7190-4704-6|pages=46}}</ref>
**The first [[facsimile]] edition of the Shakespeare [[First Folio]], edited by [[Francis Douce]], is published in London by Edward and Joseph Wright.
**[[Benjamin Tabart]] in London publishes the first printed version of ''[[Jack and the Beanstalk|The History of Jack and the Bean-Stalk]]''.
**[[Charles Wiley]] founds a print shop in [[Manhattan]], which eventually grows into the [[John Wiley & Sons]] book publishing group.

==New books==
===Fiction===
*[[Harriet Butler]] – ''Count Eugenio''
*[[Charlotte Dacre]] – ''The Libertine''
*[[Elizabeth Gunning (translator)|Elizabeth Gunning]] – ''The Orphans of Snowdon''
*[[Rachel Hunter (author)|Rachel Hunter]] – ''Family Annals''
*[[William Henry Ireland]] – ''The Catholic''
*[[Charles Lamb (writer)|Charles]] and [[Mary Lamb]] – ''[[Tales from Shakespeare]]''
*[[Matthew Gregory Lewis]] – ''The Wood Daemon''
*P. D. Manville – [[Lucinda (novel)|''Lucinda'']]
*[[Charles Maturin]] – ''The Fatal Revenge''
*[[Mary Meeke]] – ''Julien''
*[[Mary Pilkington]] – ''Ellen: Heiress of the Castle''
*[[Anna Maria Porter]] – ''[[The Hungarian Brothers]]''
*[[Regina Marie Roche]] – ''The Discarded Son''
*[[Anne Louise Germaine de Stael]] – ''[[Corinne, or Italy]]''
*[[Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson]] – ''The Castle Spectre''

===Drama===
*[[Thomas John Dibdin]] – 
** ''[[Errors Excepted]]''  
**''Harlequin in his Element''
**''Mother Goose''
*[[Giovanni Giraud]] – ''Gelosie per equivoco''
*[[William Godwin]] – ''[[Faulkener (play)|Faulkener]]''
*[[Sophia Lee]] – ''The Assignation''
*[[Matthew Gregory Lewis|Matthew Lewis]] – ''[[Adelgitha]]''
* [[Thomas Morton (playwright)|Thomas Morton]] – ''[[Town and Country (play)|Town and Country]]''
*[[John Tobin (dramatist)|John Tobin]] –  ''[[The Curfew (play)|The Curfew]]''

===Poetry===
*[[James Hogg]] – ''The Mountain Bard''
*[[William Wordsworth]] – ''[[Poems in Two Volumes]]''

===Non-fiction===
*[[Antoine Alexandre Barbier]] – ''[[Dictionnaire des ouvrages anonymes et pseudonymes]]''
*[[Jacob Boehme]] – ''Quarante Questions sur l'âme'' (translated into French by [[Louis Claude de Saint-Martin]])
*[[Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel]] – ''[[The Phenomenology of Spirit]] (Phänomenologie des Geistes)''
*[[Gottlieb Hufeland]] – ''New Foundations of Political Economy (Neue Grundlegung der Staatswirthschaftskunst)'' (vol. 1)
*[[Alexander von Humboldt]] – ''Voyage aux régions équinoxiales du nouveau continent 1799–1804''
*[[Thomas Paine]] – ''[[The Age of Reason]]''
*[[Sydney Smith]] (as Peter Plymley) – ''Letters on the Subject of the Catholics'' (publication begins)
*[[Germaine de Staël]] – ''Corinne, ou l'Italie''

==Births==
*[[January 28]] – [[Sophie Bolander]], Swedish novelist (died [[1869 in literature|1869]])
*[[February 27]] – [[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]], American poet (died [[1882 in literature|1882]])<ref>{{cite book |last = Calhoun |first = Charles C |title = Longfellow: A Rediscovered Life |url = https://archive.org/details/longfellow00char |url-access = registration |location= Boston |publisher = Beacon Press |year = 2004 |isbn =  978-0807070260|page=5}}</ref>
*[[May 14]] – [[Charlotta Djurström]], Swedish actress and theatre manager (died [[1877 in literature|1877]])
*[[June 30]] – [[Friedrich Theodor Vischer]], German author (died [[1887 in literature|1887]])
*[[August 8]] – [[Emilie Flygare-Carlén]], Swedish author (died [[1892 in literature|1892]])<ref>{{NIE|wstitle=Carlén, Emilia Smith Flygare|year=1905}}</ref>
*[[August 31]] – [[Thomas Miller (poet)|Thomas Miller]], English "ploughman poet" and novelist (died [[1874 in literature|1874]])
*[[September 2]] – [[Fredrika Runeberg]], Finnish novelist and journalist (died [[1879 in literature|1879]])<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.sls.fi/FredrikaRuneberg/ |title=Fredrika Runeberg |publisher=Svenska Littaratursällskapet i Finland |date= |accessdate=2014-05-14 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20140506115317/http://www.sls.fi/FredrikaRuneberg/ |archive-date=May 6, 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
*[[September 9]] – [[Richard Chenevix Trench]], Anglo-Irish Anglican archbishop and poet (died [[1886 in literature|1886]])
*[[October 8]] – [[Harriet Taylor Mill|Harriet Taylor]], English philosophical writer (died [[1858 in literature|1858]])<ref>{{cite ODNB|id=38051|title=Mill [née Hardy; other married name Taylor], Harriet|first=Ann P.|last=Robson}}</ref>
*[[October 23]] – [[Jemima von Tautphoeus]], née Montgomery, Anglo-Irish-born novelist (died [[1893 in literature|1893]])
*[[October 30]] – [[Christopher Wordsworth]], English Anglican bishop and Biblical scholar (died [[1885 in literature|1885]])
*[[November 16]] – [[Jónas Hallgrímsson]], Icelandic poet (died [[1845 in literature|1845]])
*[[December 17]] – [[John Greenleaf Whittier]], American Quaker poet and abolitionist, abolitionist (died [[1892 in literature|1892]])

==Deaths==
*[[January 5]] – [[Isaac Reed]], English Shakespearean editor (born [[1742 in literature|1742]])
*[[February 18]] – [[Sophie von La Roche]], German novelist (born [[1730 in literature|1730]])
*[[June 14]] – [[Louis Bruyas]], French dramatist and actor (born [[1738 in literature|1738]])
*[[July 24]] – [[John Christopher Kunze]], American theologian (born [[1744 in literature|1744]])<ref>{{cite book|author=American Philosophical Society|title=Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for Promoting Useful Knowledge|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f_1KAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA11|year=1865|publisher=The Society|pages=11}}</ref>
*[[August 1]] – [[John Walker (lexicographer)|John Walker]], English lexicographer (born [[1732 in literature|1732]])
*[[December 3]] – [[Clara Reeve]], English novelist and literary historian (born [[1729 in literature|1729]])
*[[December 19]] – [[Friedrich Melchior, baron von Grimm]], German-born French memoirist and literary correspondent (born [[1723 in literature|1723]])
*[[December 21]] – [[John Newton]], English hymnist (born [[1725 in literature|1725]])<ref>{{cite book|author=John Newton |title=Life of John Newton in letters written by himself to ... Dr. Haweis.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7uhiAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA95|year=1824|pages=95–}}</ref>

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