1797 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1797.
Events
[edit]- June 5 – Poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, living at Nether Stowey in the Quantock Hills, 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.
- November – Wordsworth suggests to Coleridge the theme of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner on a walk in the Quantocks.[3]
- December 24 – Walter Scott marries Charlotte Carpenter at St Mary's Church, Carlisle. The couple immediately move to a new home at 50 George Street, Edinburgh.[4]
- Hatchards bookshop is founded in London's Piccadilly by John Hatchard; it continues to trade on the same site into the 21st century.
New books
[edit]Fiction
[edit]- "Mrs Carver" (perhaps Anthony Carlisle) – The Horrors of Oakendale Abbey
- Hannah Webster Foster (anonymously) – The Coquette, or the History of Eliza Wharton
- 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
Children
[edit]- Charlotte Palmer – A Newly-Invented Copybook
Drama
[edit]- Samuel Taylor Coleridge – Osorio
- 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
- Robert Jephson – Julia
- Matthew Lewis – The Minister: A Tragedy, in five acts
- Thomas Morton – A Cure for the Heart Ache
- Frederick Reynolds
Poetry
[edit]Non-fiction
[edit]- 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 (Soul of the World)
Births
[edit]- January 10 - Maria da Felicidade do Couto Browne, early Portuguese woman poet (died 1861)
- January 28 – Félix Tanco, Colombian-born Cuban poet, and novelist (died 1871)
- March 3 – Emily Eden, English poet and novelist (died 1869)
- March 13 – Charles de Rémusat, French politician and writer (died 1875)
- March 27 – Alfred de Vigny, French poet (died 1863)[5]
- April 12 – Ernst August Hagen, Prussian art writer and novelist (died 1880)[6]
- June 14 – Jules Lefèvre-Deumier, French author and poet (died 1857)
- July 12 – Adele Schopenhauer, German novelist and paper-cut artist (died 1849)[7]
- August 30 – Mary Shelley, English novelist (died 1851)[8]
- September 2 – William Stephenson, English Geordie printer, publisher, auctioneer, poet and songwriter (died 1838)
- September 16 – Anthony Panizzi, Italian-born English scholar and librarian (died 1879)
- September 28 – Sophie von Knorring (Sophie Margareta Zelow), Swedish novelist (died 1848)
- October 31 – Jacob Bailey Moore, American journalist and historical writer (died 1853)
- November 17 – Saint-Amand, French playwright (died 1885)
- December 13 – Heinrich Heine, German poet (died 1856)[9]
- December 31 – North Ludlow Beamish, Irish military writer and antiquary (died 1872)
- Unknown date – Charlotte Barton, Australian children's author (died 1867)
- Approximate date – Thomas Cautley Newby, English publisher (died 1882)
Deaths
[edit]- March 2 – Horace Walpole, novelist and antiquarian (born 1717)[10]
- 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)[11]
- October 4 – Johann Christian Georg Bodenschatz, German Protestant theologian (born 1717)
- December – Mathurin-Léonard Duphot, French poet (shot dead, born 1769)
- Unknown date – Yuan Mei (袁枚), Chinese poet, diarist and gastronome (born 1716)
References
[edit]- ^ "Samuel Taylor Coleridge". Britain UnLimited. Retrieved 2012-10-08.
- ^ Kellett, Keith. "Wordsworth's Lakes". Retrieved 2008-02-25.
- ^ Holmes, Richard (1989). Coleridge: Early Visions, 1772–1804. New York: Pantheon Books. p. 171. ISBN 978-067-08-0444-3.
- ^ Edinburgh Archive – Family.
- ^ John Flower (17 January 2013). Historical Dictionary of French Literature. Scarecrow Press. p. 523. ISBN 978-0-8108-7945-4.
- ^ Josef Bernhard Nordhoff (1910). "Hagen, Ernst August H., geboren am ..." Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie. Historische Kommission bei der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. pp. 770–771. Retrieved 9 December 2016.
- ^ Weber, Christa (November 21, 2009). "Adele Schopenhauer". Deutscher Scherenschnittverein e.V. [German papercut art]. Retrieved June 7, 2014.
- ^ "Mary Shelley – author of Frankenstein". The British Library. Retrieved 25 March 2019.
- ^ Jeffrey L. Sammons (14 July 2014). Heinrich Heine: A Modern Biography. Princeton University Press. p. 11. ISBN 978-1-4008-5678-7.
- ^ Horace Walpole (1851). Memoirs of Horace Walpole and his contemporaries; including numerous original letters, chiefly from Strawberry Hill. [By Robert Folkestone Williams.] Edited by Eliot Warburton. H. Colburn. p. 574.
- ^ "Mary Wollstonecraft | Biography, Works, & Facts". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 25 March 2019.