1802 in literature
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See also: 1801 in literature, other events of 1802, 1803 in literature, list of years in literature.
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Events
- Jippensha Ikku begins work on the first of the satirical novels, Shank's Mare.
- William Wordsworth marries Mary Hutchinson
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
- History of the Rebellion of 1745 - John Home
- History of Scotland from the Union of the Crowns to the Union of the Kingdoms - Malcolm Laing
- 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 - Catharine Parr Traill, author (+ 1899)
- February 11 - Lydia Child, author (+ 1880)
- February 26 - Victor Hugo, author (+ 1885)
- June 2 - Karl Lehrs, classical scholar
- June 12 - Harriet Martineau, British writer (+ 1876)
- July 10 - Robert Chambers, Scottish writer, publisher (+ 1871)
- July 24 - Alexandre Dumas, père, novelist (+ 1870)
- July 28 - Winthrop Mackworth Praed, English poet
- December 23 - Sara Coleridge, author, daughter of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Deaths
- February 26 - Alexander Geddes, theologian
- April 18 - Erasmus Darwin, poet, grandfather of Charles Darwin
- June 5 - Johann Christian Gottlieb Ernesti, classical scholar
- June 29 - Johann Jakob Engel
- August 10 - Franz Aepinus, philosopher