1797 in literature
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[edit] Events
- Walter Scott marries Charlotte Carpenter.
- Jane Austen finishes a draft of Pride and Prejudice.
[edit] New books
- Hannah Webster Foster - The Coquette, or the History of Eliza Wharton (published anonymously)
- Friedrich Hölderlin - Hyperion, volume 1
- Jan Potocki - The Manuscript Found in Saragossa
- Ann Radcliffe - The Italian, or the Confessional of the Black Penitents
- Marquis de Sade - l'Histoire de Juliette
- Royall Tyler - The Algerine Captive
[edit] New drama
- Richard Cumberland
- Thomas John Dibdin - Sadak and Kalasrade
- Elizabeth Inchbald - Wives as They Were, and Maids as They Are
[edit] New poetry
Main article: 1797 in poetry
[edit] Non-fiction
- François-René de Chateaubriand -Essai sur les révolutions
- The Columbian Orator
- Johann Gottlieb Fichte - Foundations of Natural Right
- Lorenzo Mascheroni - Geometria del Compasso
- Thomas Paine - Agrarian Justice
[edit] Births
- March 13 - Charles de Rémusat, politician and writer (d. 1875)
- March 27 - Alfred de Vigny, poet
- August 30 - Mary Shelley, novelist
- September 28 - Sophie von Knorring, novelist (d. 1848)
- December 13 - Heinrich Heine, poet (d. 1856)
[edit] Deaths
- May 27 - François-Noël Babeuf, journalist and political agitator
- July 9 - Edmund Burke, philosopher
- September 10 - Mary Wollstonecraft, philosopher
- October 4 - Johann Christian Georg Bodenschatz, Protestant theologian
- December - Mathurin-Léonard Duphot, poet (guillotined)
- date unknown - William Mason, poet and editor
