1817 in literature

See also: 1816 in literature, other events of 1817, 1818 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

• Harper & Row publishing house is founded.

New Books

• Biographia Literaria - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• A Bride and No Wife - Henrietta Rouviere Mosse
• Claudine - Elizabeth Thomas
• Gonzalo de Balvidio - Ann Hatton
• The Knight of St. John - Anna Maria Porter
• Lalla Rookh (poem) - Thomas Moore
• The Mysteries of Hungary - Edward Moore
• Ormond and Harrington - Maria Edgeworth
• Villa Santelle - Catherine Selden
• Woman's Privilege - Selina Davenport

Births

• February 21 - José Zorrilla y Moral, Spanish poet
• May 21 - Rudolf Hermann Lotze, philosopher
• July 12 - Henry David Thoreau (+ 1862)

Deaths

• July 14 - Anne Louise Germaine de Stael, author
• July 18 - Jane Austen, author

Awards