1817 in literature

See also: 1816 in literature, other events of 1817, 1818 in literature, list of years in literature.

Table of contents 1 Events 2 New Books 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Awards

Events

• Harper & Row publishing house is founded.

New Books

• Biographia Literaria[?] - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• A Bride and No Wife[?] - Henrietta Rouviere Mosse[?]
• Claudine[?] - Elizabeth Thomas[?]
• Gonzalo de Balvidio[?] - Ann Hatton[?]
• The Knight of St. John[?] - Anna Maria Porter[?]
• Lalla Rookh[?] (poem) - Thomas Moore
• The Mysteries of Hungary[?] - Edward Moore[?]
• Ormond and Harrington[?] - Maria Edgeworth
• Villa Santelle[?] - Catherine Selden[?]
• Woman's Privilege[?] - Selina Davenport[?]

Births

• July 12 - Henry David Thoreau (+ 1862)

Deaths

• July 14 - Anne Louise Germaine de Stael, author
• July 18 - Jane Austen, author

Awards