1797 in literature

1797 in literature

Events

* Walter Scott marries Charlotte Carpenter
* Jane Austen finishes a draft of Pride and Prejudice

New books

*Hannah Webster Foster - "The Coquette, or the History of Eliza Wharton" (published anonymously)
*Friedrich Hölderlin - "Hyperion", volume 1
*Jan Potocki - "The Manuscript Found in Saragossa"
*Ann Radcliffe - "The Italian, or the Confessional of the Black Penitents"
*Marquis de Sade - "l'Histoire de Juliette"
*Royall Tyler - "The Algerine Captive"

New drama

*Thomas John Dibdin - "Sadak and Kalasrade"
*Elizabeth Inchbald - "Wives as They Were, and Maids as They Are"

Non-fiction

*François-René de Chateaubriand -"Essai sur les révolutions"
*"The Columbian Orator"
*Johann Gottlieb Fichte - "Foundations of Natural Right"
*Lorenzo Mascheroni - "Geometria del Compasso"
*Thomas Paine - "Agrarian Justice"

Births

* March 13 - Charles de Rémusat
* March 27 - Alfred de Vigny
* August 30 - Mary Shelley
* December 13 - Heinrich Heine

Deaths

* July 9 - Edmund Burke
* September 10 - Mary Wollstonecraft

Awards

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