See also: 1802 in literature, other events of 1803, 1804 in literature, list of years in literature.

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

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

Awards