1803 in literature

1803 in literature

The year 1803 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

*Novelist Mary Butt marries Captain Henry Sherwood, acquiring the surname by which she will become best known.

New books

*Charles Brockden Brown - "Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist"
*Catherine Cuthbertson - "The Romance of the Pyrenees"
*Camilla Dufour - "Aurora"
*Elizabeth Guénard - "The Three Monks!!!"
*Elizabeth Gunning - "The War-Office"
*Elisabeth Helme - "St. Clair of the Isles"
*Francis Lathom – "The Mysterious Freebooter’’
*Alicia Lefanu - "Lucy Osmond"
*Mary Meeke - "A Tale of Mystery, or Celina"
*Christiane Benedicte Eugenie Naubert -"Walter de Monbray"
*Jane Porter - "Thaddeus of Warsaw"
*Anne Louise Germaine de Stael -"Margaret of Strafford"
*Sarah Wilkinson
**"The Chateau de Montville"
**"The Subterraneous Passage"
*Sophia Woodfall - "Frederick Montravers"
*Mary Julia Young
**"The Kinsmen of Naples"
**"Moss Cliff Abbey"

New drama

*William Dunlap - "Voice of Nature" (adapted from the French)
*Heinrich von Kleist - "Die Familie Schroffenstein"
*August von Kotzebue - "Die deutschen Kleinstädter" (comedy "The German Small-towner" )

Poetry

*Henry Kirke White - "Clifton Grove, a Sketch in Verse, with other Poems"

Non-fiction

*Adamantios Korais - "Present Conditions of Civilisation in Greece"
*Joseph Lancaster - "Improvements in Education as it Respects the Industrious Classes"
*Thomas Malthus - "Principles of Population"

Births

* January 3 - Douglas William Jerrold, British writer (+ 1857)
* May 25 - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, author (+ 1873)
* May 25 - Ralph Waldo Emerson, poet, essayist (+ 1882)
* September 28 - Prosper Mérimée, French author
* November 14 - Jacob Abbott, writer (+ 1879)
* December 6 - Susanna Moodie, writer (+ 1885)

Deaths

* March 14 - Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, poet
* June 12 - Richard François Philippe Brunck, classical scholar
* September 5 - Choderlos de Laclos, author
*"date unknown"
**James Woodforde, diarist

Awards

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