1817 in literature
|
See also: 1816 in literature, other events of 1817, 1818 in literature, list of years in literature.
Contents |
Events
- Harper & Row publishing house is founded.
New books
- Die Ahnfrau - Franz Grillparzer
- 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
- February 21 - José Zorrilla y Moral, Spanish poet
- May 21 - Rudolf Hermann Lotze, philosopher
- July 12 - Henry David Thoreau (+ 1862)
Deaths
- July 14 - Anne Louise Germaine de Stael, author
- July 18 - Jane Austen, author