1802 in literature

Events

• Jippensha Ikku[?] begins work on the first of the satirical novels, Shank's Mare[?]

New Books

• The Accusing Spirit[?] - Mary Pilkington[?]
• Astonishment!!![?] - Francis Lathom[?]
• The Baron's Daughter[?] - Isabella Kelly[?]
• Belinda[?] - Maria Edgeworth
• Delphine[?] - Anne Louise Germaine de Stael
• The Farmer's Boy[?] - Elizabeth Gunning
• The Genius of Christianity[?] - François-René de Chateaubriand
• The History of the Grubthorpe Family[?] - Rachel Hunter[?]
• Independence[?] - Mary Meeke[?]
• Justina[?] - Harriet Ventum[?]
• Midnight Weddings[?] - Mary Meeke[?]
• René[?] - François-René de Chateaubriand
• The Rules of the Forest[?] - Susannah Oakes[?]
• The Soldiers of Dierenstein[?] - Elizabeth Craven[?]
• Warkfiefld Castle[?] - Jane Harvey[?]
• The White Knight[?] - Theodore Melville[?]

Births

• January 9 - Catherine Parr Traill[?], author (+ 1899)
• February 11 - Lydia Child[?], author (+ 1880)
• February 26 - Victor Hugo, author (+ 1885)
• June 12 - Harriet Martineau, British writer (+ 1876
• July 10 - Robert Chambers, Scottish writer, publisher (+ 1871)
• July 24 - Alexandre Dumas, père, novelist (+ 1870)
• December 23 - Sara Coleridge[?], author, daughter of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Deaths

• April 18 - Erasmus Darwin, poet, grandfather of Charles Darwin

Awards