1803 in literature
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See also: 1802 in literature, other events of 1803, 1804 in literature, list of years in literature.
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Events
New books
- Aurora - Camilla Dufour
- The Chateau de Montville - Sarah Wilkinson
- Frederick Montravers - Sophia Woodfall
- Clifton Grove, a Sketch in Verse, with other Poems - Henry Kirke White
- 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
New drama
- Voice of Nature - adapted from the French by William Dunlap
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)
- September 28 - Prosper Mérimée, French author
- November 14 - Jacob Abbott, writer (+ 1879)
- December 6 - Susanna Moodie, writer (+ 1885)
Deaths
- March 14 - Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, poet
- June 12 - Richard François Philippe Brunck, classical scholar
- September 5 - Choderlos de Laclos, author