1778 in literature

none February 2013 1778 literature poetry July 2020 This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1778. Events October – On the death of her father Matthew Robinson,Matthew Montagu Minutes of evidence taken before the Committee for Privileges, to whom the petition of ... Matthew Baron Rokeby ... praying that his right to vote at the Election of Peers of Ireland to sit in the Parliament of the United Kingdom may be admitted, stands referred https://books.google.com/books?id=731hAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA6 1830 6 novelist Sarah Scott receives a legacy that enables her to give up writing.Kelly, Gary. "Scott, Sarah (1720–1795)." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford UP, 2004. c. November – Printing of Nathaniel Brassey Halhed's Grammar of the Bengali Language in Hooghly for the British East India Company is completed, the first such grammar in English and the first publication using a Bengali typeface, devised by Charles Wilkins.Dalrymple William William Dalrymple (historian) Penguin Books White Mughals: love and betrayal in eighteenth-century India 2004 978-0-14-200412-8 . unknown dates A new edition of The Plays of William Shakespeare is published, edited by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens. It includes Edmond Malone's essay "An Attempt to Ascertain the Order in Which the Plays Attributed to Shakspeare Were Written".Paul Tankard, "Boswell, George Steevens, and the Johnsonian Biography Wars". The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, 22 (2012), pp. 73–95. Fanny Burney's first novel, the epistolary Evelina, or The History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World, is published anonymously in London. New books Fiction Anonymous – The Travels of Hildebrand Bowman, Esquire, into Carnovirria, Taupiniera, Olfactaria, and Auditante, in New-Zealand; in the Island of Bonhommica, and in the Powerful Kingdom of Luxo-Volupto, on the Great Southern Continent Fanny Burney (anonymously) – Evelina Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (anonymously) – The Sylph (sometimes ascribed to Sophia Briscoe) Pierre-Louis Ginguené – Satire des Satires Ignacy Krasicki – Pan Podstoli, part 1George Saintsbury Periods of European Literature https://books.google.com/books?id=cEtSNjlTd30C 1907 C. Scribner's sons 487 Clara Reeve – The Old English Baron Lady Mary Walker – Munster Village Children Mrs. Barbauld Lessons for Children of Two to ThreeTamara S. Wagner The Victorian Baby in Print: Infancy, Infant Care, and Nineteenth-Century Popular Culture https://books.google.com/books?id=Y1EAEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA113 28 May 2020 Oxford University Press 978-0-19-885801-0 113 Lessons for Children of Three (two parts, a fourth book, for four-year-olds, in 1779) Drama Henry Brooke – collected plays Elizabeth Craven – The Sleep WalkerCountry Life https://books.google.com/books?id=Ob8nAQAAIAAJ 2009 Country Life, Limited 124 Richard Cumberland The Battle of Hastings The Princess of Parma Charles Dibdin – Poor Vulcan Samuel Foote The Devil upon Two Sticks The Nabob The Taylors Jean-François de La Harpe – Les BarmecidesEbenezer Cobham Brewer Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama: Volume IV https://books.google.com/books?id=a5GD5QamHXwC&pg=RA5-PA345 March 2004 The Minerva Group, Inc. 978-1-4102-1336-5 5 John Home – Alfred Hannah More – Percy John O'Keeffe – Tony Lumpkin in TownWilliam Stewart British and Irish Poets: A Biographical Dictionary, 449-2006 https://books.google.com/books?id=HYFlAAAAMAAJ 2007 McFarland 978-0-7864-2891-5 296 Samuel Jackson Pratt – Joseph Andrews Richard Brinsley Sheridan – The Camp Poetry 1778 in poetry John Codrington Bampfylde – Sixteen Sonnets Thomas Chatterton (suicide 1770) – Miscellanies William Combe – The Auction Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos – Jovino a sus amigos de Sevilla Vicente Garcia de la Huerta – Obras poéticas George Ellis as "Sir Gregory Gander" – Poetical Tales William Hayley – A Poetical Epistle to an Eminent Painter Pedro Montengón – Odas John Scott – Moral Eclogues John Wolcot as "Peter Pindar" – A Poetical, Supplicating, Modest and Affecting Epistle to those Literary Colossuses the Reviewers Non-fiction Edmund Burke – Two Letters on the Trade of Ireland Theodor Gottlieb von Hippel the Elder – Lebenslaufe nach aufsteigender Linie (begins publication) Lorenzo Hervás y Panduro – Idea dell'Universo Vicesimus Knox – Essays Moral and Literary Francisco Javier Llampillas – Saggio apologetic della letteratura spagnuola contro le pregiudicate opinion di alcuni moderni scritori italiani Ann Murry – Mentoria Thomas Pennant – A Tour in Wales Gilbert Stuart – A View of Society in Europe Thomas West – A Guide to the Lakes Births February 6 – Ugo Foscolo, Italian poet (died 1827)Francesco Flamini A History of Italian Literature (1265-1907) https://books.google.com/books?id=IW49AAAAYAAJ 1907 National Alumni 306 thumb|right|110px|Margaret Bayard Smith February 20 – Margaret Bayard Smith, American writer (died 1844)John Arthur Garraty Mark Christopher Carnes American National Biography https://books.google.com/books?id=cOspAQAAMAAJ 1999 Oxford University Press 978-0-19-512799-7 252 February 22 – Gottfried Wilhelm Becker, German physician, writer and translator (died 1854)The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge https://books.google.com/books?id=AINRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA37 1867 Appleton 37 March 24 – Robert Fleming Gourlay, Scottish-born Canadian agriculturist and writer (died 1863)Lawrence M. Lande Old Lamps Aglow: An Appreciation of Early Canadian Poetry https://books.google.com/books?id=Xke3ESqlODMC 1957 Christian Brothers 261 April 10 – William Hazlitt, English essayist and literary critic (died 1830)Alexander IRELAND List of the writings of William Hazlitt and Leigh Hunt, chronologically arranged, with notes ... https://books.google.com/books?id=mAtbAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA46 1868 46 April 19 – Elizabeth Wynne Fremantle, English diarist (died 1857) May – John Peter Pruden, pioneer of western Canada, fur trader, and writer (died 1868)Gail Morin Métis Families: Mainville to Pruden https://books.google.com/books?id=LIAIAQAAMAAJ 2001 Quintin Publications 978-1-58211-412-5 479 June 1 – Margaret Holford the younger, English poet and novelist (died 1852) June 28 Mariano Velazquez de la Cadena, Mexican grammarian and writer (died 1860)John Ward Dean George Folsom John Gilmary Shea The Historical Magazine and Notes and Queries Concerning the Antiquities, History and Biography of America https://books.google.com/books?id=cNujaUcjJwEC&pg=PA156 1860 Henry B. Dawson 156 John David Macbride, English Arabist and academic (died 1868) July 15 – Henry Joseph Monck Mason, Irish writer and musician (died 1858)Henry Joseph Monck Mason Essay on the Antiquity and Constitution of Parliaments in Ireland https://books.google.com/books?id=lf1CAQAAMAAJ 1999 Gaunt 978-1-56169-554-6 9 August 22 – James Kirke Paulding, American novelist and politician (died 1860)Scholastic Library Publishing Encyclopedia Americana https://books.google.com/books?id=jQXYAAAAMAAJ 2006 Scholastic Library Pub. 978-0-7172-0139-6 549 August 23 – William Burt, English solicitor and writer (died 1826)Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art Report & Transactions https://books.google.com/books?id=oEIPAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA261 1887 261 September 2 – Michał Józef Römer, Polish politician and writer (died 1853) September 9 – Clemens Brentano, German novelist and poet (died 1842)Scholastic Library Publishing Encyclopedia Americana https://books.google.com/books?id=lpcSAQAAMAAJ 2006 Scholastic Library Pub. 978-0-7172-0139-6 505 October 22 – Javier de Burgos, Spanish writer, politician and jurist (died 1849)The Men of the Time: Or, Sketches of Living Notables ... https://books.google.com/books?id=3_AMAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA72 1852 Redfield 72 November 1 – Mary Brunton, Scottish novelist (died 1818)Royle Trevor The Mainstream Companion to Scottish Literature 2012 Random House 9781780574196 92 https://books.google.com/books?id=r8C1I7yD8wUC&pg=PT92 en November 28 – Christoph Ernst von Houwald, German dramatist (died 1845)Franklin Henry Hooper The Encyclopædia Britannica https://books.google.com/books?id=sLImAQAAMAAJ 1937 Encyclopædia britannica Company, Limited 845 November 29 – Hryhorii Kvitka-Osnovianenko, Ukrainian writer, journalist, and playwright (died 1843)Ivan Katchanovski Zenon E. Kohut Bohdan Y. Nebesio Myroslav Yurkevich Historical Dictionary of Ukraine https://books.google.com/books?id=-h6r57lDC4QC&pg=PA298 11 July 2013 Scarecrow Press 978-0-8108-7847-1 298 December 8 – George Crabb, British writer (died 1851)Tony Copsey Suffolk Writers from the Beginning Until 1800: A Catalogue of Suffolk Authors with Some Account of Their Lives and a List of Their Writings https://books.google.com/books?id=I1QfAQAAIAAJ 2000 Book Company 978-0-9522970-1-7 131 December 15 – John Penrose, Church of England clergyman and theologian (died 1859) December 16 – Ludwig Robert, German dramatist (died 1832) December 18 – Joseph Grimaldi, English autobiographer and clown (died 1837)Albert Edward Wilson Pantomime Pageant: A Procession of Harlequins, Clowns, Comedians, Principal Boys, Pantomime-writers, Producers and Playgoers https://books.google.com/books?id=KTlaAAAAMAAJ 1946 S. Paul & Company Limited 21 unknown date – Mary Robinson (Maid of Buttermere), English literary muse (died 1837) Deaths January 10 – Eva König, German woman of letters (born 1736) February 10 – Mary Jones, English poet (born 1707) March 13 – Charles le Beau, French historian (born 1701) May 27 – Christian Tobias Damm, German philologist and theologian (born 1699) May 30 – Voltaire, French philosopher and satirist (born 1694)Peter Gay, The Enlightenment – An Interpretation, Volume 2: The Science of Freedom, Wildwood House, London, 1973, pp. 88–89. July 3 – Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher (born 1712)Charles Henry Dobinson Jean-Jacques Rousseau: His Thought and Its Relevance Today https://books.google.com/books?id=U_RcAAAAMAAJ 1969 Methuen 978-0-416-15210-4 3 July 5 Antonio Collalto, Italian actor and dramatist (born 1713) July 15 – James Townley, English dramatist (born 1714)John Parker Who's who in the Theatre https://books.google.com/books?id=M7tZAAAAYAAJ 1967 Pitman 1698 October 6 – William Worthington, English theologian (born 1703) November 11 – Anne Steele, English poet and hymn-writer (born 1717)Robert J. Morgan Near to the Heart of God: Meditations on 366 Best-Loved Hymns https://books.google.com/books?id=g5JzBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA324 October 2010 Revell 978-0-8007-3395-7 324 November 22 – Edward Rowe Mores, English antiquarian and scholar (born 1731)Edward Hasted The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent... https://books.google.com/books?id=de09fMymE8AC&pg=PA580 1782 author 580 References 30em External links 1778 Books at Goodreads