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This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of literature during 1813. ==Events== * January 23 - ''Remorse'', a new play by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, begins a successful three-week run at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London. * January 28 - First publication of Jane Austen's novel ''Pride and Prejudice'' ("by the author of ''Sense and Sensibility''") in London; a second edition follows in November. * February 3 - Leigh Hunt is imprisoned for a libel on the Prince Regent in ''The Examiner'' (1812). He continues his literary work in gaol and will be visited 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 - Eccentric English amateur actor Robert Coates makes his London debut in his favourite role, Romeo, at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket. * June 17–18 - 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. * August 25 - Theodor Körner composes the patriotic lyric ''Schwertlied'' ("Sword Song") the night before his death in action aged 21. * October 2 - The Philomathean Society of the University of Pennsylvania is founded (the oldest continuously existing literary society in the United States). * Autumn - Robert Southey becomes Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom after Walter Scott's refusal of the post. * First award of the Chancellor's Gold Medal for poetry at the University of Cambridge in England, to George Waddington for "Columbus". * Historian and publicist Joseph François Michaud takes up Seat 29 of the Académie française. * Probable date - George E. Clymer invents the Columbian press. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1813 in literature」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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