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Contents 1 Events 2 New books 3 New drama 4 Non-fiction 5 Births 6 Deaths 7 Awards

[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

• Thomas John Dibdin - Sadak and Kalasrade
• Elizabeth Inchbald - Wives as They Were, and Maids as They Are

[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
• March 27 - Alfred de Vigny
• August 30 - Mary Shelley
• September 28 - Sophie von Knorring
• December 13 - Heinrich Heine

[edit] Deaths

• July 9 - Edmund Burke
• September 10 - Mary Wollstonecraft

[edit] Awards