This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1803.
Events
June 30 – Novelist Mary Butt marries her cousin, Captain Henry Sherwood, acquiring the surname by which she will become best known. 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. 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.
New books Fiction 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 Germaine de Staël – Margaret of Strafford
Drama 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 Henry Kirke White – Clifton Grove, a Sketch in Verse, with other Poems Adam Oehlenschlager – Digte (Poems)
Non-fiction 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)Raza Ali Abadi, Ktabian Apny Aaba ki, p.15-18 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 January 3 – Douglas William Jerrold, English dramatist (died 1857) January 15 – Marjorie Fleming, Scottish child writer (died 1811) 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) 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)
Deaths January 1 – James Woodforde, English diarist (born 1740) 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) October 8 – Vittorio Alfieri, Italian dramatist and poet (born 1749) December 18 – Johann Gottfried Herder, German philosopher, poet and critic (born 1744)
References
External links 1803 Books at Goodreads