1804 in literature

Events

New Books

• Amazement[?] - Mary Meeke[?]
• The Eve of San-Pietro[?] - Mary A. Neri[?]
• The India Voyage[?] - Elizabeth Lefanu[?]
• Jerusalem[?] (poetry) - William Blake
• The Knights of Calatrava[?] - Sarah Wilkinson[?]
• The Lake of Killarney[?] - Anna Maria Porter[?]
• Lussington Abbey[?] - Henrietta Rouviere Mosse[?]
• Malvina[?] - Sophie Ristaud Cottin[?]
• The Mother and Daughter[?] - Mary Julia Young[?]
• The Nine Days' Wonder[?] - Mary Meeke[?]
• Oberman[?] - Etienne Senancour[?]
• Popular Tales[?] - Maria Edgeworth
• The Ruins of Tivoli[?] - Francis Clifford[?]
• The Sepulchral Summons[?] - William Henry Ireland[?]
• The Unexpected Legacy[?] - Rachel Hunter[?]

Births

• July 1 - George Sand, writer (+ 1876)
• July 4 - Nathaniel Hawthorne, writer (+ 1864)
• December 10 - Eugène Sue[?], novelist (+ 1857)
• December 21 - Benjamin Disraeli, writer (+ 1881)

Deaths

• January 4 - Charlotte Ramsay Lennox[?], English novelist & playwright
• February 12 - Immanuel Kant

Awards