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