1804 in literature - Definition and Overview

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
• Familiar Epistles to J. F. Jones, Esquire, on the State of the Irish Stage - John Wilson Croker
• 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 Spirit of Discovery - William Lisle Bowles
• The Unexpected Legacy - Rachel Hunter

Births

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

Deaths

• January 4 - Charlotte Lennox, English novelist & playwright
• February 12 - Immanuel Kant
• December 9 - Wilhelm Abraham Teller, theologian
• December - John Boydell, publisher
• date unknown - Celestyn Czaplic, Polish poet

Awards