1798 in literature

1798 in literature

Events

* The Académie française publishes a new edition of its dictionary.

New books

*Charles Brockden Brown
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**"Wieland"
*Emily Clark - "Ianthé, or the Flower of Caernarvon"
*William Godwin - "Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman"
*Regina Maria Roche - ""
*Mary Wollstonecraft - "Posthumous Works" (edited by William Godwin); includes "")

New drama

*Friedrich von Schiller - "Wallensteins Lager"

Poetry

*Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth - "Lyrical Ballads" (published anonymously)

Non-fiction

*Hannah Webster Foster - "The Boarding School; or, Lessons of a Preceptress to Her Pupils"
*Thomas Malthus - "An Essay on the Principle of Population"

Births

* January 5 - David Macbeth Moir, poet and humorist
* February 17 - Auguste Comte
* March 30 - Luise Hensel
* June 29 - Count Giacomo Leopardi, Italian poet

Deaths

* June 4 - Giacomo Casanova, librarian
* June 20 - Jeremy Belknap, historian of New Hampshire
* December 16 - Thomas Pennant, traveller

Awards

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