1817 in literature
See also: 1816 in literature, other events of 1817, 1818 in literature, list of years in literature.
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Events
- Harper & Row publishing house is founded.
New books
- Die Ahnfrau – Franz Grillparzer
- 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
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