1790 in literature

none 1790 literature poetry July 2020 This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1790. Events thumb|alt=Reading The Monk|This 1802 caricature of a couple reading Matthew Lewis's The Monk in the water closet satirizes readers of "horrid" (i.e. Gothic) novels. (Rijksmuseum) 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.Maike Oergel (Re-)Writing the Radical: Enlightenment, Revolution and Cultural Transfer in 1790s Germany, Britain and France https://books.google.com/books?id=fEHLf32rRqQC&pg=PA239 19 December 2012 Walter de Gruyter 978-3-11-029011-0 239 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.Evelyn Morchard Bishop Oliver Stonor Blake's Hayley: The Life, Works, and Friendships of William Hayley https://books.google.com/books?id=ad5aAAAAMAAJ 1951 Gollancz 120 May 31 – United States President George Washington approves the Copyright Act of 1790.http://digital-law-online.info/patry/patry5.html William F. Patry Copyright Law and Practice 2014-01-01 June 1 – The Royal Literary Fund is founded in Britain by David Williams.Jon Mee Print, Publicity, and Popular Radicalism in the 1790s: The Laurel of Liberty https://books.google.com/books?id=TZErDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA206 26 May 2016 Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-13361-7 206 June 9 – John Barrie's Philadelphia Spelling Book Arranged Upon a Plan Entirely New becomes the first American book copyrighted.http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/06/09/june_9_1790_first_book_copyrighted_in_us_the_philadelphia_spelling_book.php Ernest Miller June 9, 1790 Corante 2005-06-09 2014-05-23 2014-01-02 https://web.archive.org/web/20140102191132/http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/06/09/june_9_1790_first_book_copyrighted_in_us_the_philadelphia_spelling_book.php dead unknown date – William Lane establishes the Minerva Press in London, specializing in Gothic fiction. New books Fiction Mary Pilkington – Delia Ann Radcliffe – A Sicilian Romancehttp://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=6983 Caroline Webber The Literary Encyclopedia Ann Radcliffe: A Sicilian Romance 2007-08-24 Helen Maria Williams – Julia Drama Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – Torquato Tasso (completed)Lamport Francis John 1990 German Classical Drama: Theatre, Humanity and Nation, 1750-1870 https://archive.org/details/germanclassicald0000lamp registration Cambridge University Press 0-521-36270-9 90 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 MalabarBaigent Elizabeth http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/26314 Starke, Mariana (1762–1838) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Oxford University Press Online 2004 10.1093/ref:odnb/26314 2014-05-23 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 1790 in poetry William Blake – The Marriage of Heaven and Hell Robert Burns – "Tam o' Shanter" Non-fiction 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 January 1 – James Wills, Irish poet (died 1868) January 10 – Anders Abraham Grafström, Swedish historian, priest and poet (died 1870) https://sok.riksarkivet.se/sbl/Presentation.aspx?id=13127 Anders A Grafström Svenskt biografiskt lexikon Gösta Lundström January 1, 2019 sv 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) Pietsch Theodore Collection building in ichthyology and herpetology American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists Lawrence, Kan 1997 9780935868913 56 March 18 – Marquis de Custine, French aristocrat and travel writer (died 1857) France Peter L'invitation au voyage : studies in honour of Peter France Voltaire Foundation Oxford 2000 9780729407304 251 June 9 – Abel-François Villemain, French politician and writer (died 1870)John Clark Ridpath The Standard American Encyclopedia of Arts, Sciences, History, Biography, Geography, Statistics, and General Knowledge Standard American Publishing Company 1900 2620 June 24 – Helena Ekblom, Swedish writer and preacher (died 1859) July 8 – Fitz-Greene Halleck, American poet (died 1867) Leary Lewis American Literature To 1900 Macmillan Education, Limited London 1980 9781349164189 145 August 8 – Ferenc Kölcsey, Hungarian poet and critic (died 1838)Ferenc Kolcsey https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ferenc-Kolcsey Encyclopedia Britannica 20 March 2018 en October 1 – Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna, English novelist (died 1846) October 21 – Alphonse de Lamartine, French poet (died 1869) Claeys Gregory Encyclopedia of nineteenth-century thought Routledge London New York 2005 9780415244190 266 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 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)Richards, Thomas (1710?-1790) April 3 – Ephraim Kuh, German poet, 58/917 317 318 Kuh, Ephraim Franck ADB:Kuh, Ephraim April 29 – Charles-Nicolas Cochin, French art critic (born 1715)The English cyclopædia: A new dictionary of universal knowledge https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_QuY-AAAAYAAJ_2 1858 Bradbury & Evans 299 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)The Aldine Magazine of Biography, Bibliography, Criticism and the Arts https://books.google.com/books?id=WdJNAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA265 1839 Simpkin, Marshall & Company 265 July 7 – François Hemsterhuis, Dutch philosopher (born 1721)Heinz Moenkemeyer François Hemsterhuis https://archive.org/details/francoishemsterh00moen registration 1975 Twayne Publishers 978-0-8057-2419-6 8 July 17 – Adam Smith, Scottish philosopher and political economist (born 1723)Adam Smith (1723–1790) https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/smith_adam.shtml BBC 20 March 2018 July 25 – William Livingston, American political writer and politician (born 1723)Theodore Sedgwick A Memoir of the Life of William Livingston https://books.google.com/books?id=OeqluqI1cm8C&pg=PA416 March 2009 Applewood Books 978-1-4290-1699-5 416 unknown date – Maria Vittoria Ottoboni, Italian stage actress, writer and salonist (b. 1721)E. Verga, Storia della vita milanese, Milano 1931 probable – Marc-Antoine Eidous, French encyclopedist (born c. 1724)Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century https://books.google.com/books?id=5FgoAQAAIAAJ 1984 Institut et musée Voltaire 491 References 30em External links 1790 Books at Goodreads