1789 in literature

1789 in literature

Events

* Friedrich Schiller is appointed professor of history and philosophy at Jena.

New books

*Elizabeth Bonhôte - "Darnley Vale, or, Emelia Fitzroy"
*W. H. Brown - "The Power of Sympathy"
*Richard Cumberland - "Arundel"
*Ann Radcliffe - "The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne"
*James White - "Earl Strongbow"

New drama

*Elizabeth Inchbald - "The Married Man"
*Ann Yearsley - "Earl Goodwin"

Poetry

*William Blake - "Songs of Innocence"
*William Lisle Bowles - "Sonnets"

Non-fiction

*Olaudah Equiano - "The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African"

Births

* January 11 - John Payne Collier
* November 15 - James Scholefield
* December 28Catharine Sedgwick, American writer (d. 1867)

Deaths

* Baron d'Holbach


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