1803 in literature
See also: 1802 in literature, other events of 1803, 1804 in literature, list of years in literature.
Events
New booksAurora - Camilla DufourThe Chateau de Montville - Sarah WilkinsonFrederick Montravers - Sophia WoodfallClifton Grove, a Sketch in Verse, with other Poems - Henry Kirke WhiteThe Kinsmen of Naples - Mary Julia YoungLucy Osmond - Alicia LefanuMargaret of Strafford - Anne Louise Germaine de StaelMemoirs of Carwin the Biloquist - Charles Brockden BrownMoss Cliff Abbey - Mary Julia YoungPrinciples of Population - Thomas MalthusThe Romance of the Pyrenees - Catherine CuthbertsonSt. Clair of the Isles - Elisabeth Helme The Subterraneous Passage - Sarah WilkinsonA Tale of Mystery, or Celina - Mary MeekeThaddeus of Warsaw - Jane PorterThe Three Monks - Elizabeth GuénardWalter de Monbray - Christiane Benedicte Eugenie NaubertThe War-Office - Elizabeth Gunning
New dramaVoice of Nature - adapted from the French by William Dunlap
Births January 3 - Douglas William Jerrold, British writer (+ 1857) May 25 - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, author (+ 1873) May 25 - Ralph Waldo Emerson, poet, essayist (+ 1882) September 28 - Prosper Mérimée, French author November 14 - Jacob Abbott, writer (+ 1879) December 6 - Susanna Moodie, writer (+ 1885)
Deaths March 14 - Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, poet June 12 - Richard François Philippe Brunck, classical scholar September 5 - Choderlos de Laclos, author
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