1803 in literature

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## Events

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* June 30 – Novelist Mary Butt marries her cousin, Captain Henry Sherwood, acquiring the surname by which she will become best known.[1]
* September 9 – Bamberg State Library is established in Upper Franconia.
* unknown date – The library which becomes the National Széchényi Library, established in 1802 by Count Ferenc Széchényi, opens to the public in Pest, Hungary.[2]
* Jane Austen's novel Northanger Abbey, a satire on Gothic fiction, is advertised by a London publisher but is not in fact published until 1817, after her death.[3]

## New books

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### Fiction

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* Charles Brockden Brown – Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist
* Sophie Ristaud Cottin – Amélie de Mansfield
* Catherine Cuthbertson – The Romance of the Pyrenees
* Elizabeth Gunning – The War-Office
* Francis Lathom – The Mysterious Freebooter
* Mary Meeke – A Tale of Mystery, or Celina
* Jean Paul \- Titan
* Jane Porter – Thaddeus of Warsaw[4]
* Germaine de Staël – Margaret of Strafford

### Drama

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* John Allingham
* Hearts of Oak
* The Marriage Promise
* George Colman – John Bull
* William Dunlap – Voice of Nature (adapted from the French)
* Collin d'Harleville – Malice pour malice
* Thomas Holcroft – Hear Both Sides
* Heinrich von Kleist – Die Familie Schroffenstein
* August von Kotzebue – Die deutschen Kleinstädter (comedy, German Small-towners)
* Frederick Reynolds – The Three Per Cents
* Friedrich Schiller – The Bride of Messina (Die Braut von Messina), premiere in Weimar on March 19
* Isaac Reed (ed.) – The Plays of William Shakspeare (first variorum edition)

### Poetry

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* Henry Kirke White – Clifton Grove, a Sketch in Verse, with other Poems
* Adam Oehlenschlager – Digte (Poems)

### Non-fiction

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* Alexandre Balthazar Laurent Grimod de La Reynière – Almanach des gourmands (1st edition)
* Bahadur Ali Hussaini – Akhlaq-e-Hindi, first Urdu book printed in printing-press (ethics)[5]
* Immanuel Kant – Über Pädagogik (On Pedagogy)
* Adamantios Korais – Present Conditions of Civilisation in Greece
* Joseph Lancaster – Improvements in Education as It Respects the Industrious Classes
* Thomas Malthus – An Essay on the Principle of Population (2nd edition)
* Humphry Repton – Observations on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening

## Births

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* January 3 – Douglas William Jerrold, English dramatist (died 1857)
* January 15 – Marjorie Fleming, Scottish child writer (died 1811)[6]
* January 27 – Eunice Hale Cobb, American writer, public speaker, and activist (died 1880)
* May 16 – Amelie von Strussenfelt, Swedish novelist (died 1847)
* May 25
* Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, English novelist, poet and dramatist (died 1873)
* Ralph Waldo Emerson, American poet, essayist and philosopher (died 1882)
* July 20 – Dudley Costello, Irish writer and journalist (died 1865)
* September 20 – Catherine Crowe, English novelist, playwright and children's writer (died 1876)
* September 28 – Prosper Mérimée, French dramatist and historian (died 1870)
* October 25 – Maria Doolaeghe, Flemish novelist (died 1884)[7]
* November 14 – Jacob Abbott, American children's writer (died 1879)
* December 6 – Susanna Moodie, English-born Canadian writer (died 1885)
* December 31 – José María Heredia y Heredia, Cuban poet (died 1839)

Unknown date – Evan Bevan, Welsh writer of satirical verse (died 1866)[8]

## Deaths

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* January 1 – James Woodforde, English diarist (born 1740)[9]
* February 11 – Jean-François de La Harpe, French dramatist and critic (born 1739)
* March 14 – Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, German poet (born 1724)
* April 9 – Mihály Bakos (Miháo Bakoš), Slovene hymnist and Lutheran minister (born c. 1742)
* June 12 – Richard François Philippe Brunck, French classical scholar (born 1729)
* August 2 – John Hoole, English translator (born 1727)
* September 5 – Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, French novelist (born 1841)[10]
* October 8 – Vittorio Alfieri, Italian dramatist and poet (born 1749)[11]
* December 18 – Johann Gottfried Herder, German philosopher, poet and critic (born 1744)

## References

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1. ^ Aleyn Lyell Reade (1923). Johnsonian Gleanings. Francis. p. 132.
2. ^ Wayne A. Wiegand; Donald G. Davis (1994). Encyclopedia of Library History. Taylor & Francis. p. 458\. ISBN 978-0-8240-5787-9.
3. ^ Claire Tomalin (1997). Jane Austen: A Life. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. p. 182\. ISBN 0-679-44628-1.
4. ^ Leavis, Q. D. (1965). Fiction and the Reading Public (rev. ed.). London: Chatto & Windus.
5. ^ Raza Ali Abadi, Ktabian Apny Aaba ki, p.15-18
6. ^ Sutherland, Kathryn (2004). "Fleming, Marjory (1803–1811), child diarist". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/9707. Retrieved 26 March 2019. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
7. ^ Van Gemert, Lia (2011). Women's Writing from the Low Countries 1200-1875: A Bilingual Anthology. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. p. 500\. ISBN 978-9-08964-129-8.
8. ^ Griffiths, Griffith Milwyn. "Bevan, Evan (1803-1866), poet". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 8 September 2020.
9. ^ "James Woodforde". The Parson Woodforde Society. Retrieved 2013-04-11.
10. ^ Frank Northen Magill (1958). Masterplots: Cyclopedia of world authors; 753 novelists, poets, playwrights from the world's fine literature. Salem Press. p. 613.
11. ^ Margaretta Jolly (4 December 2013). Encyclopedia of Life Writing: Autobiographical and Biographical Forms. Routledge. p. 32\. ISBN 978-1-136-78744-7.

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