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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 )
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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
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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 .