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
- 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
