1802 in literature

1802 in literature

The year 1802 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

* Jippensha Ikku begins work on the first of the satirical novels, "Shank's Mare".
* Washington Irving makes his first appearance in print at age nineteen, submitting observational letters to the New York "Morning Chronicle" under the name Jonathan Oldstyle
* William Wordsworth marries Mary Hutchinson

New books

*François-René de Chateaubriand - "René"
*Elizabeth Craven - "The Soldiers of Dierenstein"
*Elizabeth Gunning - "The Farmer's Boy"
*Jane Harvey - "Warkfield Castle"
*Rachel Hunter - "The History of the Grubthorpe Family"
*Isabella Kelly - "The Baron's Daughter"
*Francis Lathom - "Astonishment!!!"
*Mary Meeke
**"Independence"
**"Midnight Weddings"
*Theodore Melville - "The White Knight"
*Susannah Oakes - "The Rules of the Forest"
*Mary Pilkington - "The Accusing Spirit"
*Anne Louise Germaine de Stael -"Delphine"
*Sir Walter Scott - "The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border"
*Harriet Ventum - "Justina"

New drama

*Charles-Guillaume Étienne - "Les Deux Mères"

Non-fiction

*Jeremy Bentham - "Civil War and Penal Legislation"
*François-René de Chateaubriand - "The Genius of Christianity"
*John Debrett - first edition of "Debrett's Peerage"
*John Home - "History of the Rebellion of 1745" -
*Malcolm Laing - "History of Scotland from the Union of the Crowns to the Union of the Kingdoms"
*Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling - "Bruno oder über das göttliche und natürliche Prinzip der Dinge"
*Daniel Webster - "The Rights of Neutral Nations in Time of War"

Births

* January 9 - Catharine Parr Traill, author (+ 1899)
* February 11 - Lydia Maria Child, author (+ 1880)
* February 26 - Victor Hugo, author (+ 1885)
* June 2 - Karl Lehrs, classical scholar
* June 12 - Harriet Martineau, British writer (+ 1876)
* July 10 - Robert Chambers, Scottish writer, publisher (+ 1871)
* July 24 - Alexandre Dumas, père, novelist (+ 1870)
* July 28 - Winthrop Mackworth Praed, English poet
*August 25 - Nikolaus Lenau, poet
*November 29 - Wilhelm Hauff, poet and novelist
* December 23 - Sara Coleridge, author, daughter of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Deaths

* February 26 - Alexander Geddes, theologian
* April 18 - Erasmus Darwin, poet, grandfather of Charles Darwin
* June 5 - Johann Christian Gottlieb Ernesti, classical scholar
* June 29 - Johann Jakob Engel
* August 10 - Franz Aepinus, philosopher

Awards

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