1797 in literature
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[edit] Events
- Walter Scott marries Charlotte Carpenter
- Jane Austen finishes a draft of Pride and Prejudice
[edit] 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
[edit] New drama
- Elizabeth Inchbald - Wives as They Were, and Maids as They Are
[edit] 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
[edit] Births
- March 13 - Charles de Rémusat
- March 27 - Alfred de Vigny
- August 30 - Mary Shelley
- December 13 - Heinrich Heine
