1788 in literature

1788 in literature

Events

*Ann Ward marries William Radcliffe, gaining the surname under which she will become known as a writer of Gothic novels.
*Joseph Johnson and Thomas Christie found the "Analytical Review".

New books

*Charlotte Turner Smith - "Emmeline; or The Orphan of the Castle"
*Mary Wollstonecraft - ""

New drama

*Hannah Cowley - "The Fate of Sparta"
*Elizabeth Inchbald - "Animal Magnetism"
*Frances Brooke - "Marian"

Non-fiction

*Edward Gibbon - Volumes IV, V, and VI of "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"
*George Hepplewhite (attr.) - "Cabinet Maker and Upholsterers Guide"
*Immanuel Kant - "Critique of Practical Reason (Kritik der praktischen Vernunft)"
*Richard Porson - "Letters to Archdeacon Travis"

Births

*January 22 - George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, English poet (+ 1824)
*September 22 - Theodore Edward Hook, English author
*December 6 - Richard Harris Barham, author of "The Ingoldsby Legends"

Deaths

*October 13 - Robert Nugent, 1st Earl Nugent, Irish politician and poet (b. 1702)


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