1803 in literature

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

[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
  • The Chateau de Montville
  • The Subterraneous Passage
• Sophia Woodfall - Frederick Montravers
• Mary Julia Young
  • The Kinsmen of Naples
  • Moss Cliff Abbey

[edit] 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" )

[edit] Poetry

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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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

[edit] Awards