1803 in literature

Events

New Books

• Aurora[?] - Camilla Dufour[?]
• The Chateau de Montville[?] - Sarah Wilkinson[?]
• Frederick Montravers[?] - Sophia Woodfall[?]
• The Kinsmen of Naples[?] - Mary Julia Young[?]
• Lucy Osmond[?] - Alicia Lefanu[?]
• Margaret of Strafford[?] - Anne Louise Germaine de Stael
• Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist[?] - Charles Brockden Brown[?]
• Moss Cliff Abbey[?] - Mary Julia Young[?]
• Principles of Population[?] - Thomas Malthus
• The Romance of the Pyrenees[?] - Catherine Cuthbertson[?]
• St. Clair of the Isles[?] - Elisabeth Helme[?]
• The Subterraneous Passage[?] - Sarah Wilkinson[?]
• A Tale of Mystery, or Celina[?] - Mary Meeke[?]
• Thaddeus of Warsaw[?] - Jane Porter[?]
• The Three Monks!!![?] - Elizabeth Guénard[?]
• Walter de Monbray[?] - Christiane Benedicte Eugenie Naubert[?]
• The War-Office[?] - Elizabeth Gunning

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)
• November 14 - Jacob Abbott, writer (+ 1879)
• December 6 - Susanna Moodie[?] , writer (+ 1885)

Deaths

• September 5 - Choderlos de Laclos[?], author

Awards