1802 in literature

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The year 1802 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

• 15 April - William and Dorothy Wordsworth, walking by Ullswater, see a belt of daffodils which inspire his poem, I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, first written two years later.^[1]
• 3 September - William Wordsworth's sonnet Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 written.
• 4 October - William Wordsworth marries Mary Hutchinson.
• 13 November - The first play in English to be explicitly called a melodrama ("melodrame") is performed in London, Thomas Holcroft's Gothic A Tale of Mystery (an unacknowledged translation of de Pixerécourt's Cœlina, ou, l'enfant du mystère) at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden.^[2]
• 15 November - Washington Irving makes his first appearance in print at age nineteen, submitting observational letters to the New York Morning Chronicle under the name Jonathan Oldstyle.
• Jippensha Ikku begins work on the first of the satirical novels, Shank's Mare.

New books

• François-René de Chateaubriand - René
• Elizabeth Craven - The Soldiers of Dierenstein
• Elizabeth Gunning - The Farmer's Boy
• Jane Harvey - Warkfield Castle
• Rachel Hunter - The History of the Grubthorpe Family
• Isabella Kelly - The Baron's Daughter
• Francis Lathom - Astonishment!!!
• Mary Meeke
  • Independence
  • Midnight Weddings
• Theodore Melville - The White Knight
• Susannah Oakes - The Rules of the Forest
• Mary Pilkington - The Accusing Spirit
• Anne Louise Germaine de Stael -Delphine
• Sir Walter Scott - The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border
• Harriet Ventum - Justina

New drama

• Charles-Guillaume Étienne - Les Deux Mères

Non-fiction

• Jeremy Bentham - Civil War and Penal Legislation
• François-René de Chateaubriand - The Genius of Christianity
• John Debrett - first edition of Debrett's Peerage
• John Home - History of the Rebellion of 1745 -
• Malcolm Laing - History of Scotland from the Union of the Crowns to the Union of the Kingdoms
• Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling - Bruno^{[disambiguation needed ]} oder über das göttliche und natürliche Prinzip der Dinge
• Daniel Webster - The Rights of Neutral Nations in Time of War

Births

• January 9 - Catharine Parr Traill, author (+ 1899)
• February 11 - Lydia Maria Child, author (+ 1880)
• February 26 - Victor Hugo, author (+ 1885)
• June 2 - Karl Lehrs, classical scholar
• June 12 - Harriet Martineau, British writer (+ 1876)
• July 10 - Robert Chambers, Scottish writer, publisher (+ 1871)
• July 24 - Alexandre Dumas, père, novelist (+ 1870)
• July 28 - Winthrop Mackworth Praed, English poet
• August 25 - Nikolaus Lenau, poet
• November 29 - Wilhelm Hauff, poet and novelist
• December 8 - Alexander Odoevsky, Russian poet, one of the Decembrists (+ 1839)
• December 23 - Sara Coleridge, author, daughter of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (+ 1852)

Deaths

• February 26 - Alexander Geddes, theologian
• April 18 - Erasmus Darwin, poet, grandfather of Charles Darwin
• June 5 - Johann Christian Gottlieb Ernesti, classical scholar
• June 29 - Johann Jakob Engel
• August 10 - Franz Aepinus, philosopher

Awards

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