This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1813.
Events
January 23 – Remorse, a new play by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, begins a three-week run at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London. January 28 – Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice is first published (as "by the author of Sense and Sensibility") in London. A second edition follows in November. February 3 – Leigh Hunt is imprisoned for a libel of the Prince Regent in The Examiner (1812). He continues his literary work in prison and will be visited there by Lord Byron, Thomas Moore, Charles and Mary Lamb, Charles Cowden Clarke, Maria Edgeworth, William Hazlitt, Jeremy Bentham, Lord Brougham and Benjamin Haydon. May 10 – The eccentric English amateur actor Robert Coates makes his London debut in his favourite role, Romeo, at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket. June 17–18 – The German poet and playwright Theodor Körner, fighting with the Königlich Preußisches Freikorps von Lützow in the German campaign against Napoleon (War of the Sixth Coalition), composes the sonnet "Abschied vom Leben" (Farewell to Life) while lying severely wounded. June – Following the death of Jean-François Cailhava de L'Estandoux, the historian and publicist Joseph François Michaud takes up Seat 29 of the Académie française. July – The first award of the Chancellor's Gold Medal for poetry at the University of Cambridge in England goes to George Waddington for "Columbus". August 25 – Theodor Körner composes the patriotic lyric "Schwertlied" (Sword Song) on the night before his death in action, aged 21. October 2 – The Philomathean Society of the University of Pennsylvania is founded. It is the oldest continuously existing literary society in the United States. Autumn – Robert Southey becomes Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom after Walter Scott declines the post.
New books
Fiction
Jane Austen – Pride and Prejudice
Eaton Stannard Barrett – The Heroine, or: Adventures of a fair romance reader
Willem Bilderdijk – Kort verhaal van eene aanmerklijke luchtreis, en nieuwe planeetontdekking (Short Account of a Remarkable Aerial Voyage and Discovery of a New Planet) Adelbert von Chamisso – Peter Schlemihl Barbara Hofland – The Daughter-in-Law Regina Maria Roche – The Monastery of St. Columb Shikitei Sanba (式亭 三馬) – Ukiyoburo (浮世風呂, publication completed) Sarah Elizabeth Utterson – Tales of the Dead
Drama
Samuel Taylor Coleridge – Remorse
Robert Francis Jameson – The Students of Salamanca
Jean-Antoine-Marie Monperlier – Les Chevaliers de Malte
Thomas Morton – Education
Amandus Gottfried Adolf Müllner – Die Schuld
Jane M. Scott – The Forest Knight
Matthäus Casimir von Collin – Der Tod Friedrichs des Streitbaren
Poetry
Lord Byron – The Giaour
Alessandro Manzoni – Inni sacri
Mary Russell Mitford – Narrative Poems on the Female Character
Percy Bysshe Shelley – Queen Mab: A Philosophical Poem
Non-fiction
Charles Bucke – The Philosophy of Nature, or, the Influence of Scenery on the Mind and Heart Humphry Davy – Elements of Agricultural Chemistry in a Course of Lectures Joseph-Philippe-François Deleuze – Histoire critique de magnétisme animal Pierce Egan – Boxiana; or Sketches of Pugilism Johann Friedrich Herbart – Lehrbuch zur Einleitung in die Philosophie (Introductory Textbook in Philosophy) Robert Owen – A New View of Society James Cowles Prichard – Researches into the Physical History of Man Arthur Schopenhauer – On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason (Über die vierfache Wurzel des Satzes vom zureichenden Grunde) Percy Bysshe Shelley – A Vindication of Natural Diet Robert Southey – The Life of Nelson Germaine de Staël – De l'Allemagne (On Germany)
Births
January 23
Camilla Collett, Norwegian writer (died 1895) Charles Harpur, Australian poet (died 1868) February 11 - Otto Ludwig, German novelist and playwright (died 1865) March 11 – William Watkiss Lloyd, English polymath (died 1863) March 18 – Christian Friedrich Hebbel, German poet and dramatist (died 1863) May 5 – Søren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher (died 1855) May 20 – William Smith, English lexicographer (died 1893) October 17 – Georg Büchner, German dramatist, poet and writer (died 1837)
Uncertain dates
Caroline Leigh Gascoigne, English poet, novelist, short story writer (died 1883) Harriet Jacobs, African-American memoirist and abolitionist (died 1897) Liu Xizai (刘熙载), Chinese scholar and literary critic (died 1881)