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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1817.

Events

  • January 27 – March 18 – Jane Austen begins, but abandons her novel Sanditon ("Three Brothers").{{Cite web |last1=Lane |first1=Anthony |title=Reading Jane Austen’s Final, Unfinished Novel |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/13/reading-jane-austens-final-unfinished-novel |website=The New Yorker |access-date=26 March 2019 |language=en |date=6 March 2017}}
  • February 12 – Junius Brutus Booth makes his stage debut in the title role of Shakespeare's Richard III at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden in London.{{Cite web |first=Dave |last=Taylor |work=BoothieBarn |title=When Junius Took the Stage – Part 5 |url=http://boothiebarn.com/2013/12/28/when-junius-took-the-stage-part-5/ |date=2013-12-28 |access-date=2014-05-20}}
  • February 20 – Junius Brutus Booth as Iago plays opposite Edmund Kean in the title role of Othello at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in London.
  • March – Percy and Mary Shelley with Claire Clairmont and the latter's new daughter by Lord Byron, Allegra (at this time called Alba), having moved from Bath, begin a year's residence in Marlow, Buckinghamshire, England, where Mary completes Frankenstein and gives birth to her third child, and Percy writes The Revolt of Islam.{{cite web|title=The Shelleys Move to Marlow – Frankenstein Completed|url=https://www.frankensteindiaries.com/2017/02/the-shelleys-move-to-marlow-frankenstein-completed/|work=Frankenstein Diaries|access-date=2020-08-03}}
  • April 1 – Blackwood's Magazine is launched as the Edinburgh Monthly Magazine. In October the publisher, William Blackwood, relaunches it as Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine.
  • August 6 – Gas lighting on stage is introduced in London's English Opera House (extended to the auditorium on September 8). On September 6 it is introduced at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, where it has already been installed in the auditorium and foyer, and the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, as a demonstration.{{Cite web |title=Theatres Compete in Race to Install Gas Illumination – 1817 |url=http://www.overthefootlights.co.uk/1817-18.pdf |work=Over The Footlights |access-date=2014-05-20}}
  • December 18 – 20 – William Hone successfully defends himself in a London court on charges arising from his publication of political satires.
  • December 28 – English painter Benjamin Haydon introduces John Keats to William Wordsworth and Charles Lamb at a dinner in London to celebrate progress on his painting Christ's Entry into Jerusalem, in which all feature.{{Cite book |title=The Immortal Evening: a legendary dinner with Keats, Wordsworth and Lamb |first=Stanley |last=Plumly |author-link=Stanley Plumly |location=New York |publisher=W. W. Norton & Co |year=2014 |isbn=978-0-393-08099-5 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/immortaleveningl0000plum}}
  • December 31 – Walter Scott's historical novel Rob Roy, written from this spring, is published anonymously by Archibald Constable in Edinburgh, while a shipload of copies is carried from Leith to London for simultaneous publication there by Longman.{{Cite book |last=Scott |first=Walter |editor=Lang, Andrew |editor-link=Andrew Lang |title=Rob Roy |orig-year=1829 |year=2010 |publisher=Easton Press |location=Norwalk, CT |page=69 |quote=It is an event unprecedented in the annals either of literature or of the custom-house that the entire cargo of a packet, or smack, bound from Leith to London, should be the impression of a novel.}}
  • December – Jane Austen's first and last completed novels, respectively Northanger Abbey and Persuasion are published together by John Murray in London (dated 1818), six months after the author's death at Winchester. Her brother Henry Austen contributes a biographical note, which first publicly identifies her as the author of her previously anonymous novels. She had earned £684 in her lifetime from her writing.
  • unknown – J. & J. Harper publishing house is founded in New York City by James Harper and his brother John.{{cite book|author=Tina Grant|title=International Directory of Company Histories|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NFAkAQAAMAAJ|year=1996|publisher=St. James Press|isbn=978-1-55862-218-0|page=216}}

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Births

Deaths

  • March 23 – José Mariano Beristain, Mexican bibliographer (born 1756){{Catholic|wstitle=José Mariano Beristain y Martin de Souza}}
  • April 6 – Caleb Bingham, American textbook author (born 1757)
  • April 25 – Joseph von Sonnenfels, Austrian novelist (born 1732){{cite book|author1=Heiner F. Klemme|author2=Manfred Kuehn|title=The Bloomsbury Dictionary of Eighteenth-Century German Philosophers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YH6fCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA730|date=30 June 2016|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing|isbn=978-1-4742-5600-1|pages=730}}
  • May 24 – Juan Meléndez Valdés, Spanish poet (born 1754)
  • July 14 – Germaine de Staël, French woman of letters (born 1766){{Cite book |author1=Germaine de Staël|author2=Madame De Sta?l |author3=Stael, Mad |title=Corinne, or Italy |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9rhgmceQCpUC&pg=PR1 |year=1998 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-282505-6 |pages=1}}
  • July 18 – Jane Austen, English novelist (born 1775){{Cite web |title=BBC - History - Jane Austen |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/austen_jane.shtml |website=www.bbc.co.uk |access-date=26 March 2019}}
  • August 21 – Tarikonda Venkamamba, Telugu woman poet (born 1730)
  • December 28 – Charles Burney, English classicist (born 1757)
  • unknown date – Joakim Stulić, Croatian lexicographer (born 1730){{cite book|author=Leopold Auburger|title=Die kroatische Sprache und der Serbokroatismus|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e49iAAAAMAAJ|year=1999|publisher=Hess|isbn=978-3-87336-009-9|page=99|language=de}}

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