1804 in literature (original) (raw)

See also: 1803 in literature, other events of 1804, 1805 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

New Books

• Amazement - Mary Meeke
• The Eve of San-Pietro - Mary A. Neri
• The India Voyage - Elizabeth Lefanu
• Jerusalem (poetry) - William Blake
• The Knights of Calatrava - Sarah Wilkinson
• The Lake of Killarney - Anna Maria Porter
• Lussington Abbey - Henrietta Rouviere Mosse
• Malvina - Sophie Ristaud Cottin
• The Mother and Daughter - Mary Julia Young
• The Nine Days' Wonder - Mary Meeke
• Oberman - Etienne Senancour
• Popular Tales - Maria Edgeworth
• The Ruins of Tivoli - Francis Clifford
• The Sepulchral Summons - William Henry Ireland
• The Unexpected Legacy - Rachel Hunter

Births

• July 1 - George Sand, writer (+ 1876)
• July 4 - Nathaniel Hawthorne, writer (+ 1864)
• December 10 - Eug�ne Sue, novelist (+ 1857)
• December 21 - Benjamin Disraeli, writer (+ 1881)

Deaths

• January 4 - Charlotte Ramsay Lennox, English novelist & playwright
• February 12 - Immanuel Kant

Awards