1803 in literature

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

Events

• Novelist Mary Butt marries Captain Henry Sherwood, acquiring the surname by which she will become best known.

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

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

Poetry

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

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

Births

• January 3 - Douglas William Jerrold, dramatist (died 1857)
• May 25 - Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, novelist, poet and dramatist (died 1873)
• May 25 - Ralph Waldo Emerson, poet, essayist and philosopher (died 1882)
• September 28 - Prosper Mérimée, French author
• November 14 - Jacob Abbott, children's writer (died 1879)
• December 6 - Susanna Moodie, British-Canadian writer (died 1885)
• December 31 - José María Heredia y Heredia, Cuban poet (died 1839)

Deaths

• February 11 - Jean-François de La Harpe, dramatist and critic (born 1739)
• March 14 - Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, poet (born 1724)
• June 12 - Richard François Philippe Brunck, classical scholar (born 1729)
• September 5 - Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, novelist (born 1841)
• October 8 - Vittorio Alfieri, dramatist (born 1749)
• December 18 - Johann Gottfried Herder, philosopher, poet and critic (born 1744)
• date unknown - James Woodforde, diarist (born 1740)

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