1797 in literature

See also: 1796 in literature, other events of 1797, 1798 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

• Walter Scott marries Charlotte Carpenter

New books

• Geometria del Compasso by Lorenzo Mascheroni
• The Coquette, or the History of Eliza Wharton by Hannah Webster Foster (anonymously)
• Essai sur les révolutions by François-René de Chateaubriand
• l'Histoire de Juliette by the Marquis de Sade

Births

• March 13 – Charles de Rémusat
• March 27 – Alfred de Vigny
• August 30 – Mary Shelley
• December 13 – Heinrich Heine

Deaths

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

Awards