1788 in literature
Overview of the events of 1788 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1788 .
Events
New books
Fiction
Children
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
January 22 – George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron , English poet (died 1824 )
February 28 – Samuel Bamford , English writer, poet and radical (died 1872 )
March 1 – Gheorghe Asachi , Moldavian polymath (died 1869 )
March 20 – Thomas Medwin , English poet, biographer and translator (died 1869 )
September 22 – Theodore Edward Hook , English man of letters and composer (died 1841 )
c. October 14 – Robert Millhouse , English weaver poet (died 1839 )
October 24 – Sarah Josepha Hale , American novelist and poet (died 1879 )
December 6 – Richard Harris Barham (Thomas Ingoldsby), English novelist, poet and cleric (died 1845 )
Deaths
March 31 – Frances Vane, Viscountess Vane (Lady Fanny), English memoirist (born 1715 )
May 17 – Dorothea Biehl , Danish dramatist and translator (born 1731 )
July 21 – Gaetano Filangieri , Italian philosopher (born 1752 )
August 4 – Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd or Ieuan Brydydd Hir), priest and poet, 57[ 4]
August 16 – Francisco Javier Alegre , Mexican historian and translator (born 1729 )
September 16 – Andrea Spagni , Italian theologian (born 1716 )
October 13 – Robert Nugent, 1st Earl Nugent , Irish politician and poet (born 1709 )
References
^ Michael Henry Scrivener (2007). The Cosmopolitan Ideal in the Age of Revolution and Reaction, 1776-1832 . Pickering & Chatto. p. 224. ISBN 978-1-85196-833-6 .
^ "Mary Wollstonecraft | Biography, Works, & Facts" . Encyclopedia Britannica . Retrieved 10 August 2019 .
^ Francis, Sing-chen Lydia (2002). " "What Confucius Wouldn't Talk About": The Grotesque Body and Literati Identities in Yuan Mei's "Zi buyu" ". Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews . 24 : 129–160. doi :10.2307/823479 . ISSN 0161-9705 . JSTOR 823479 .
^ Aneirin Lewis. "Evans, Evan Ieuan Fardd or Ieuan Brydydd Hir 1731-1788), scholar, poet, and cleric" . Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales . Retrieved 21 August 2020 .