1803 in literature
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The year 1803 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
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[edit] Events
- Novelist Mary Butt marries Captain Henry Sherwood, acquiring the surname by which she will become best known.
[edit] 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
- Sophia Woodfall - Frederick Montravers
- Mary Julia Young
[edit] New drama
- William Dunlap - Voice of Nature (adapted from the French)
- Collin d'Harleville - Malice pour malice
- Heinrich von Kleist - Die Familie Schroffenstein
- August von Kotzebue - Die deutschen Kleinstädter (comedy "The German Small-towner" )
- Friedrich Schiller - Die Braut von Messina
[edit] Poetry
- Henry Kirke White - Clifton Grove, a Sketch in Verse, with other Poems
[edit] Non-fiction
- Immanuel Kant - Über Pädagogik
- Adamantios Korais - Present Conditions of Civilisation in Greece
- Joseph Lancaster - Improvements in Education as it Respects the Industrious Classes
- Thomas Malthus - Principles of Population
[edit] Births
- January 3 - Douglas William Jerrold, dramatist (d. 1857)
- May 25 - Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, novelist, poet and dramatist (d. 1873)
- May 25 - Ralph Waldo Emerson, poet, essayist and philosopher (d. 1882)
- September 28 - Prosper Mérimée, French author
- November 14 - Jacob Abbott, children's writer (d. 1879)
- December 6 - Susanna Moodie, British-Canadian writer (d. 1885)
- December 31 - José María Heredia y Heredia, Cuban poet (d. 1839)
[edit] Deaths
- February 11 - Jean-François de La Harpe, dramatist and critic (b. 1739)
- [March 14]] - Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, poet (b. 1724)
- June 12 - Richard François Philippe Brunck, classical scholar (b. 1729)
- September 5 - Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, novelist (b. 1841)
- October 8 - Vittorio Alfieri, dramatist (b. 1749)
- December 18 - Johann Gottfried Herder, philosopher, poet and critic (b. 1744)
- date unknown - James Woodforde, diarist (b. 1740)
