1803 in literature
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The year 1803 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
Events
- Novelist Mary ButtMary Martha SherwoodMary Martha Sherwood was a prolific and influential writer of children's literature in 19th-century Britain...
marries Captain Henry Sherwood, acquiring the surname by which she will become best known.
New books
- Charles Brockden BrownCharles Brockden BrownCharles Brockden Brown , an American novelist, historian, and editor of the Early National period, is generally regarded by scholars as the most ambitious and accomplished US novelist before James Fenimore Cooper...
- Memoirs of Carwin the BiloquistMemoirs of Carwin the BiloquistMemoirs of Carwin, the Biloquist is a fragment of story written by Charles Brockden Brown published over a period of two years. Memoirs of Carwin, the Biloquist follows the life of a young man by the name of Carwin as he realizes his biloquial, ventriloquist, talents... - Catherine CuthbertsonCatherine CuthbertsonCatherine Cuthbertson was an English-language novelist in the early 19th-century. Among her works were Romance of the Pyrenees , Forest of Montalbano , and The Hut and the Castle: a Romance ....
- 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 LathomFrancis LathomFrancis Lathom was a British gothic novelist and playwright.-Biography:Francis Lathom was born on the 14 July of 1774, either in Rotterdam, Holland, where his father, Henry, conducted business for the East India Company and returning to England around 1777, settling near Norwich, or he was born in...
– The Mysterious Freebooter’’ - Alicia Lefanu - Lucy Osmond
- Mary MeekeMary MeekeMary Meeke was a prolific author of around 30 novels published by the Minerva Press during the early 19th century, and is believed to have died in October 1816....
- A Tale of Mystery, or Celina - Christiane Benedicte Eugenie Naubert -Walter de Monbray
- Jane PorterJane PorterJane Porter was a Scottish historical novelist and dramatist.-Life and work:Jane Porter was an avid reader. Said to rise at four in the morning in order to read and write, she read the whole of Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene while still a child...
- Thaddeus of Warsaw - Anne Louise Germaine de StaelAnne Louise Germaine de StaëlAnne Louise Germaine de Staël-Holstein , commonly known as Madame de Staël, was a French-speaking Swiss author living in Paris and abroad. She influenced literary tastes in Europe at the turn of the 19th century.- Childhood :...
-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 DunlapWilliam DunlapWilliam Dunlap was a pioneer of the American theater. He was a producer, playwright, and actor, as well as a historian. He managed two of New York's earliest and most prominent theaters, the John Street Theatre and the Park Theatre...
- Voice of Nature (adapted from the French) - Collin d'HarlevilleCollin d'HarlevilleJean-François Collin d'Harleville was a French dramatist.He was born at Mévoisins . His first dramatic success was L'Inconstant, a comedy accepted by the Comédie Française in 1780, but not produced there until six years later, though it was played elsewhere in 1784...
- Malice pour malice - Heinrich von KleistHeinrich von KleistBernd Heinrich Wilhelm von Kleist was a poet, dramatist, novelist and short story writer. The Kleist Prize, a prestigious prize for German literature, is named after him.- Life :...
- Die Familie Schroffenstein - August von KotzebueAugust von KotzebueAugust Friedrich Ferdinand von Kotzebue was a German dramatist.One of Kotzebue's books was burned during the Wartburg festival in 1817. He was murdered in 1819 by Karl Ludwig Sand, a militant member of the Burschenschaften...
- Die deutschen Kleinstädter (comedy "The German Small-towner" ) - Friedrich SchillerFriedrich SchillerJohann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller was a German poet, philosopher, historian, and playwright. During the last seventeen years of his life , Schiller struck up a productive, if complicated, friendship with already famous and influential Johann Wolfgang von Goethe...
- Die Braut von Messina
Non-fiction
- Immanuel KantImmanuel KantImmanuel Kant was a German philosopher from Königsberg , researching, lecturing and writing on philosophy and anthropology at the end of the 18th Century Enlightenment....
- Über Pädagogik - Adamantios KoraisAdamantios KoraisAdamantios Korais or Coraïs was a humanist scholar credited with laying the foundations of Modern Greek literature and a major figure in the Greek Enlightenment. His activities paved the way for the Greek War of Independence and emergence of a purified form of the Greek language, known as...
- Present Conditions of Civilisation in Greece - Joseph LancasterJoseph LancasterJoseph Lancaster was an English Quaker and public education innovator.-Life:Lancaster was born the son of a shopkeeper in Southwark, south London....
- Improvements in Education as it Respects the Industrious Classes - Thomas MalthusThomas MalthusThe Reverend Thomas Robert Malthus FRS was an English scholar, influential in political economy and demography. Malthus popularized the economic theory of rent....
- Principles of Population
Births
- January 3 - Douglas William JerroldDouglas William JerroldDouglas William Jerrold was an English dramatist and writer.-Biography:Jerrold was born in London. His father, Samuel Jerrold, was an actor and lessee of the little theatre of Wilsby near Cranbrook in Kent. In 1807 Douglass moved to Sheerness, where he spent his childhood...
, dramatist (d. 1857) - May 25 - Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonEdward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonEdward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton PC , was an English politician, poet, playwright, and novelist. He was immensely popular with the reading public and wrote a stream of bestselling dime-novels which earned him a considerable fortune...
, novelist, poet and dramatist (d. 1873) - May 25 - Ralph Waldo EmersonRalph Waldo EmersonRalph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet, who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century...
, poet, essayist and philosopher (d. 1882) - September 28 - Prosper MériméeProsper MériméeProsper Mérimée was a French dramatist, historian, archaeologist, and short story writer. He is perhaps best known for his novella Carmen, which became the basis of Bizet's opera Carmen.-Life:...
, French author - November 14 - Jacob AbbottJacob AbbottJacob Abbott was an American writer of children's books.-Biography:Abbott was born at Hallowell, Maine to Jacob and Betsey Abbott...
, children's writer (d. 1879) - December 6 - Susanna MoodieSusanna MoodieSusanna Moodie, born Strickland , was an English-born Canadian author who wrote about her experiences as a settler in Canada, which was a British colony at the time.-Biography:...
, British-Canadian writer (d. 1885) - December 31 - José María Heredia y HerediaJosé María Heredia y HerediaJosé María Heredia y Heredia was a Cuban poet, born at Santiago de Cuba.He studied at the University of Havana, and was called to the bar in 1823. In the autumn of 1823 he was arrested on a charge of conspiracy against the Spanish government, and was sentenced to banishment for life...
, Cuban poet (d. 1839)
Deaths
- February 11 - Jean-François de La HarpeJean-François de La HarpeJean-François de La Harpe was a French playwright, writer and critic.-Life:La Harpe was born in Paris of poor parents. His father, who signed himself Delharpe, was a descendant of a noble family originally of Vaud...
, dramatist and critic (b. 1739) - March 14 - Friedrich Gottlieb KlopstockFriedrich Gottlieb KlopstockFriedrich Gottlieb Klopstock was a German poet.-Biography:Klopstock was born at Quedlinburg, the eldest son of a lawyer.Both in his birthplace and on the estate of Friedeburg on the Saale, which his father later rented, young Klopstock passed a happy childhood; and more attention having been given...
, poet (b. 1724) - June 12 - Richard François Philippe BrunckRichard François Philippe BrunckRichard François Philippe Brunck was a French classical scholar.-Biography:Brunck was born in Strasbourg, France, educated at the Jesuits' College in Paris, and took part in the Seven Years' War as military commissary. At the age of thirty he returned to Strasbourg to resume his studies,...
, classical scholar (b. 1729) - September 5 - Pierre Choderlos de LaclosPierre Choderlos de LaclosPierre Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos was a French novelist, official and army general, best known for writing the epistolary novel Les Liaisons dangereuses ....
, novelist (b. 1841) - October 8 - Vittorio AlfieriVittorio AlfieriCount Vittorio Alfieri was an Italian dramatist, considered the "founder of Italian tragedy."-Early life:Alfieri was born at Asti in Piedmont....
, dramatist (b. 1749) - December 18 - Johann Gottfried HerderJohann Gottfried HerderJohann Gottfried von Herder was a German philosopher, theologian, poet, and literary critic. He is associated with the periods of Enlightenment, Sturm und Drang, and Weimar Classicism.-Biography:...
, philosopher, poet and critic (b. 1744) - date unknown - James WoodfordeJames WoodfordeJames Woodforde was an English clergyman, best known as the author of The Diary of a Country Parson.-Early life:James Woodforde was born at the Parsonage, Ansford, Somerset, England on 27 June 1740...
, diarist (b. 1740)