1790 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1790.
Events
[edit]- February – Xavier de Maistre begins writing Voyage autour de ma chambre (Voyage Around my Room, published 1794) while under arrest in Turin in the Kingdom of Sardinia, as the result of a duel.[1]
- May – Following the death of Thomas Warton, William Hayley refuses an offer to succeed him as Poet Laureate of Great Britain. Retired MP Henry James Pye is appointed in his place.[2]
- May 31 – United States President George Washington approves the Copyright Act of 1790.[3]
- June 1 – The Royal Literary Fund is founded in Britain by David Williams.[4]
- June 9 – John Barrie's Philadelphia Spelling Book Arranged Upon a Plan Entirely New becomes the first American book copyrighted.[5]
- unknown date – William Lane establishes the Minerva Press in London, specializing in Gothic fiction.
New books
[edit]Fiction
[edit]- Mary Pilkington – Delia
- Ann Radcliffe – A Sicilian Romance[6]
- Helen Maria Williams – Julia
Drama
[edit]- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – Torquato Tasso (completed)[7]
- William Hayley – Eudora
- Thomas Holcroft – The German Hotel
- Edmond Malone (editor) – The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare
- Leandro Fernández de Moratín – El viejo y la niña (The Old Man and the Young Girl, published)
- Mariana Starke – The Widow of Malabar[8]
- August von Kotzebue
- Die Indianer in England (The Indians in England)
- Menschenhass und Reue (Misanthropy and Repentance)
- (as Knigge) – Doktor Bahrdt mit der eisernen Stirn (Doctor Bahrdt with the Iron Brow)
Poetry
[edit]Non-fiction
[edit]- Samuel Ayscough – An Index to the Remarkable Passages and Words Made Use of by Shakespeare, first Shakespeare concordance published
- James Bruce – Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile
- Edmund Burke – Reflections on the Revolution in France
- Hannah More – An Estimate of the Religion of the Fashionable World
- Jean Paul – Leben des vergnügten Schulmeisterlein Maria Wutz (Life of the Devoted School Mistress MW)
- Alexander Radishchev – Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow
- Louis Claude de Saint-Martin – L'Homme de désir
- Mary Wollstonecraft – A Vindication of the Rights of Men
Births
[edit]- January 1 – James Wills, Irish poet (died 1868)
- January 10 – Anders Abraham Grafström, Swedish historian, priest and poet (died 1870)[9]
- January 29 – George Métivier, Guernsey poet writing in Guernésiais (died 1881)
- March 3 – John Austin, English legal philosopher (died 1859)
- March 10 – Jacques Arago, French traveller and writer (died 1855)[10]
- March 18 – Marquis de Custine, French aristocrat and travel writer (died 1857)[11]
- June 9 – Abel-François Villemain, French politician and writer (died 1870)[12]
- June 24 – Helena Ekblom, Swedish writer and preacher (died 1859)
- July 8 – Fitz-Greene Halleck, American poet (died 1867)[13]
- August 8 – Ferenc Kölcsey, Hungarian poet and critic (died 1838)[14]
- October 1 – Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna, English novelist (died 1846)
- October 21 – Alphonse de Lamartine, French poet (died 1869)[15]
- December 8 – Richard Carlile, English advocate of suffrage and press freedom (died 1843)
- December 25 – Anna Eliza Bray, English novelist and travel writer (died 1883)
- Unknown date — Mary Diana Dods (also as David Lyndsay and Walter Sholto Douglas), Scottish writer (died 1830 in literature)
Deaths
[edit]- February 19 – Thomas de Mahy, marquis de Favras, man of letters (born 1744; executed)
- March 20 – Thomas Richards of Coychurch, cleric and lexicographer (born c.1710)[16]
- April 3 – Ephraim Kuh, German poet, 58/9[17]
- April 29 – Charles-Nicolas Cochin, French art critic (born 1715)[18]
- May 2 – Martin Madan, English writer and cleric (born 1726)
- May 6 – Jacques Antoine Hippolyte, Comte de Guibert, French military writer (born 1743)
- May 21 – Thomas Warton, English poet and literary historian (born 1798)[19]
- July 7 – François Hemsterhuis, Dutch philosopher (born 1721)[20]
- July 17 – Adam Smith, Scottish philosopher and political economist (born 1723)[21]
- July 25 – William Livingston, American political writer and politician (born 1723)[22]
- unknown date – Maria Vittoria Ottoboni, Italian stage actress, writer and salonist (b. 1721)[23]
- probable – Marc-Antoine Eidous, French encyclopedist (born c. 1724)[24]
References
[edit]- ^ Maike Oergel (19 December 2012). (Re-)Writing the Radical: Enlightenment, Revolution and Cultural Transfer in 1790s Germany, Britain and France. Walter de Gruyter. p. 239. ISBN 978-3-11-029011-0.
- ^ Evelyn Morchard Bishop; Oliver Stonor (1951). Blake's Hayley: The Life, Works, and Friendships of William Hayley. Gollancz. p. 120.
- ^ Patry, William F. "Copyright Law and Practice". Retrieved 2014-01-01.
- ^ Jon Mee (26 May 2016). Print, Publicity, and Popular Radicalism in the 1790s: The Laurel of Liberty. Cambridge University Press. p. 206. ISBN 978-1-107-13361-7.
- ^ Miller, Ernest (2005-06-09). "June 9, 1790". Corante. Archived from the original on 2014-01-02. Retrieved 2014-05-23.
- ^ Webber, Caroline (2007-08-24). "Ann Radcliffe: A Sicilian Romance". The Literary Encyclopedia.
- ^ Lamport, Francis John (1990). German Classical Drama: Theatre, Humanity and Nation, 1750-1870. Cambridge University Press. p. 90. ISBN 0-521-36270-9.
- ^ Baigent, Elizabeth (2004). "Starke, Mariana (1762–1838)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/26314. Retrieved 2014-05-23. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
- ^ Gösta Lundström. "Anders A Grafström" (in Swedish). Svenskt biografiskt lexikon. Retrieved January 1, 2019.
- ^ Pietsch, Theodore (1997). Collection building in ichthyology and herpetology. Lawrence, Kan: American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists. p. 56. ISBN 9780935868913.
- ^ France, Peter (2000). L'invitation au voyage : studies in honour of Peter France. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation. p. 251. ISBN 9780729407304.
- ^ John Clark Ridpath (1900). The Standard American Encyclopedia of Arts, Sciences, History, Biography, Geography, Statistics, and General Knowledge. Standard American Publishing Company. p. 2620.
- ^ Leary, Lewis (1980). American Literature To 1900. London: Macmillan Education, Limited. p. 145. ISBN 9781349164189.
- ^ "Ferenc Kolcsey". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 20 March 2018.
- ^ Claeys, Gregory (2005). Encyclopedia of nineteenth-century thought. London New York: Routledge. p. 266. ISBN 9780415244190.
- ^ . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
- ^ Franck (1883), "Kuh, Ephraim", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 17, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 317–318
- ^ The English cyclopædia: A new dictionary of universal knowledge. Bradbury & Evans. 1858. p. 299.
- ^ The Aldine Magazine of Biography, Bibliography, Criticism and the Arts. Simpkin, Marshall & Company. 1839. p. 265.
- ^ Heinz Moenkemeyer (1975). François Hemsterhuis. Twayne Publishers. p. 8. ISBN 978-0-8057-2419-6.
- ^ "Adam Smith (1723–1790)". BBC. Retrieved 20 March 2018.
- ^ Theodore Sedgwick (March 2009). A Memoir of the Life of William Livingston. Applewood Books. p. 416. ISBN 978-1-4290-1699-5.
- ^ E. Verga, Storia della vita milanese, Milano 1931
- ^ Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century. Institut et musée Voltaire. 1984. p. 491.