1797 in literature
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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1797.
Contents
Events
- June 5 - Poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, living at Nether Stowey in the Quantock Hills of Somerset, renews his friendship with William Wordsworth and Wordsworth's sister, Dorothy, who take a house nearby.[1]
- July 15 - George Colman's comedy The Heir at Law opens in London. It introduces the character of Dr. Pangloss to the stage and the phrase "Queen Anne's dead" to the language.
- August - The British Home Office sends an agent to Nether Stowey to investigate Coleridge and Wordsworth who are suspected of being French spies.[2]
- October - Coleridge composes the poem Kubla Khan in an opium-induced dream, writing down only a fragment of it on waking.
- November 1 - Jane Austen's father writes to London bookseller Thomas Cadell to ask if he is interested in seeing the manuscript of Jane's recently completed novel First Impressions (later re-titled Pride and Prejudice); Cadell declines.
- December 24 - Walter Scott marries Charlotte Carpenter at St Mary's Church, Carlisle, and the couple immediately move into their new home at 50 George Street, Edinburgh.[3]
- Hatchards bookshop is founded in London's Piccadilly by John Hatchard; it continues to trade from the same site into the 21st century.
New novels
- "Mrs Carver" (perhaps Anthony Carlisle) - The Horrors of Oakendale Abbey
- Hannah Webster Foster - The Coquette, or the History of Eliza Wharton (published anonymously)
- Friedrich Hölderlin - Hyperion, volume 1
- Frances Margaretta Jacson (anonymously) - Disobedience
- Jan Potocki - The Manuscript Found in Saragossa
- Ann Radcliffe - The Italian, or the Confessional of the Black Penitents
- Marquis de Sade - l'Histoire de Juliette
- Royall Tyler - The Algerine Captive
New drama
- George Colman - The Heir at Law
- Richard Cumberland
- Thomas John Dibdin - Sadak and Kalasrade
- Elizabeth Inchbald - Wives as They Were, and Maids as They Are
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Osorio
New poetry
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Non-fiction
- Thomas Bewick - History of British Birds vol. 1
- François-René de Chateaubriand - Essai sur les révolutions
- The Columbian Orator
- Johann Gottlieb Fichte - Foundations of Natural Right
- Lorenzo Mascheroni - Geometria del Compasso
- Thomas Paine - Agrarian Justice
- Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling - Die Weltseele
Births
- March 13 – Charles de Rémusat, French politician and writer (died 1875)
- March 27 – Alfred de Vigny, French poet (died 1863)
- July 12 – Adele Schopenhauer, German novelist and paper-cut artist (died 1849)
- August 30 – Mary Shelley, English novelist (died 1851)
- September 16 – Anthony Panizzi, Italian-born English scholar and librarian (died 1879)
- September 28 – Sophie von Knorring (Sophie Margareta Zelow), Swedish novelist (died 1848)
- December 13 – Heinrich Heine, German poet (died 1856)
- Unknown date – Charlotte Barton, Australian children's author (died 1867)
Deaths
- April 7 – William Mason, English poet and editor (born 1724)
- May 27 – François-Noël Babeuf, French journalist and political agitator (executed, born 1760)
- July 9 – Edmund Burke, Irish-born philosopher (born 1729)
- September 10 – Mary Wollstonecraft, English philosopher (born 1759)
- October 4 – Johann Christian Georg Bodenschatz, German Protestant theologian (born 1717)
- December – Mathurin-Léonard Duphot, French poet (shot dead, born 1769)
References
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