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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1797. ==Events== *June 5 - Poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, living at Nether Stowey in the Quantock Hills of Somerset, renews his friendship with William Wordsworth and Wordsworth's sister, Dorothy, who take a house nearby.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Britain UnLimited )〕 *July 15 - George Colman's comedy ''The Heir at Law'' opens in London. It introduces the character of Dr. Pangloss to the stage and the phrase "Queen Anne's dead" to the language. *August - The British Home Office sends an agent to Nether Stowey to investigate Coleridge and Wordsworth who are suspected of being French spies. * October - Coleridge composes the poem ''Kubla Khan'' in an opium-induced dream, writing down only a fragment of it on waking. *November 1 - Jane Austen's father writes to London bookseller Thomas Cadell to ask if he is interested in seeing the manuscript of Jane's recently completed novel ''First Impressions'' (later re-titled ''Pride and Prejudice''); Cadell declines. *December 24 - Walter Scott marries Charlotte Carpenter at St Mary's Church, Carlisle, and the couple immediately move into their new home at 50 George Street, Edinburgh.〔(Edinburgh Archive – Family. )〕 *Hatchards bookshop is founded in London's Piccadilly by John Hatchard; it continues to trade from the same site into the 21st century. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1797 in literature」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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