1794 in literature

none November 2013 1794 literature poetry July 2020 This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1794. Events thumb|alt=Left-looking half-length portrait of a possibly pregnant woman in a white dress|Mary Wollstonecraft by John Opie (c. 1797)Todd, Death and the Maidens, 39. March 12 – The rebuilt Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, in London, designed by Henry Holland, opens to the public.Theatre Royal Drury Lane 1794 Opening of the Theatre Royal, Drury-Lane. The Public is Respectfully Informed that the Theatre Royal, Drury-Lane Will Open on Wednesday Next, March 12. 1794, with a Grand Selection of Sacred Music from the Works of Handel. https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_opening-of-the-theatre-r_theatre-royal-drury-lan_1794_0 May 12 – William Godwin's novel Things as They Are; or, The Adventures of Caleb Williams is publishedLynch Deidre Shauna Downie J. A. 2016 Philosophical fictions and "Jacobin" novels in the 1790s The Oxford Handbook of the Eighteenth-Century Novel https://books.google.com/books?id=SlesDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA441 Oxford Oxford University Press 441 9780199566747 4 October 2022 in London as an attack on tyrannical government. Godwin intended it as a call to end the abuse of power, and as a popularisation of the ideas presented in his 1793 treatise Political Justice. The novel demonstrates that legal and other institutions can and do destroy individuals, even when the people who the justice system touches are innocent of any crime. This reality, in Godwin's mind, was therefore a description of "things as they are". The novel is classified as one of the best examples of the "victim-of-society story".Gregory 1915 202 The original manuscript included a preface that was removed from publication, because its content alarmed the booksellers of the time.http://www.gutenberg.org/files/11323/11323-h/11323-h.htm Caleb Williams, by William Godwin Project Gutenberg 2011-03-09 May 14 – Mary Wollstonecraft's daughter by the American speculator Gilbert Imlay, Fanny, is born in Le Havre.Tomalin, 218–19; Holmes, Footsteps, 118. Fanny is named after the English illustrator Fanny Blood, her mother's closest friend.Todd, Mary Wollstonecraft, 258. Although Imlay never married Wollstonecraft, he registered her as his wife at the American consulate to protect her once Britain and France went to war in February 1793. Most people, including Wollstonecraft's sisters, assumed they were married—and thus, by extension, that Fanny was legitimate. Fanny was registered as a legitimate child in France, instead of being born out of wedlock.Tomalin, 218–19; Todd, Mary Wollstonecraft, 267. June – The English poets Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey first meet, in Oxford while Coleridge is en route for a tour of Wales. They meet again in Bristol in AugustAmy O'Beirne Bristol and Romanticism: Walking Guide http://www.ideasfestival.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/BCDP-BFOI_Bristol_Romaticism_WalkingGuide.pdf 2015 Bristol Festival of Ideas 2015-11-10 (where they also meet local poet Robert Lovell and his sisters-in-law, who they will marry; he also introduces them to the publisher Joseph Cottle). After Maximilien Robespierre's execution in July, they collaborate on the historical drama The Fall of Robespierre, published in October. The work was published in October 1794 by Benjamin Flower. Five hundred copies were printed and circulated in Bath, Cambridge, and London, which brought the writers fame while their personal relationship grew tense.Holmes 1989 pp. 73–78Southey's first published poetry appears and he also writes the radical play Wat Tyler this summer. August – Ludwig Tieck graduates from the University of Göttingen and begins a literary career.The Journal of English and Germanic Philology Ludwig Tieck's English Studies at the University of Göttingen, 1792-1794 36 2 April 1937 A. Gillies 206–223 University of Illinois Press Autumn–December – English playwright Thomas Holcroft is indicted for treason as a member of the Society for Constitutional Information and held in Newgate Prison, London, but released without charge. November 14 – The first recorded meeting of the Franklin Literary Society is held at Canonsburg Academy (modern-day Washington & Jefferson College) in Pennsylvania.McClelland W. C. A History of Literary Societies at Washington & Jefferson College https://books.google.com/books?id=t1QyAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA111 George H. Buchanan and Company The Centennial Celebration of the Chartering of Jefferson College in 1802 1903 Philadelphia 111–132 https://books.google.com/books?id=t1QyAAAAYAAJ New books Fiction Jane Austen - Lady Susan (written) Giorgio Ferrich – la Fabulae ab Illyricis adagiis disumptae William Godwin – Caleb Williams Elizabeth Gunning – The Packet Karl Friedrich Kahlert (under the pseudonym Lawrence Flammenberg) translated and adapted by Peter Teuthold – The Necromancer; or, The Tale of the Black Forest Xavier de Maistre – Voyage autour de ma chambreNorbert Crochet Xavier de Maistre Xavier de Maistre - Voyage Autour de Ma Chambre https://books.google.com/books?id=feKHizkZRtMC&pg=PP1 15 November 2008 Norbert Crochet 978-1-4092-4419-6 1 Ann Radcliffe – The Mysteries of Udolpho Mary Robinson – The Widow; or, A Picture of Modern Times Susanna Rowson – Charlotte Temple (first American edition) Thomas Spence – A Description of Spensonia Children Elizabeth Pinchard – The Two Cousins Drama Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey – The Fall of Robespierre Hannah Cowley – The Town Before You Richard Cumberland The Jew The Box-Lobby Challenge Elizabeth Inchbald – The Wedding Day Henry James Pye – The Siege of Meaux François Juste Marie Raynouard – Caton d'Utique Frederick Reynolds –The Rage Mary Robinson – Nobody: A Comedy in Two Acts https://web.archive.org/web/20130604105839/http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/nobody/ 2013-06-04 Poetry 1794 in poetry William Blake – Songs of Experience Isabella Kelly – Collection of Poems and Fables Non-fiction Edward Bancroft – Experimental Researches Concerning the Philosophy of Permanent Colours Erasmus Darwin – Zoonomia; or the Laws of Organic Life Elizabeth Dawbarn (anonymously) – Dialogue between Clara Neville and Louisa Mills, on Loyalty Edward Gibbon – Memoirs of My Life and Writings Deen Mahomed – The Travels of Dean Mahomet (first book published in English by an Indian)Michael H. Fisher, "Mahomed, Deen (1759–1851)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, UK: OUP), 2004 Retrieved 13 May 2017. Thomas James Mathias – The Pursuits of Literature Thomas Paine – The Age of Reason William Paley – View of the Evidences of Christianity Uvedale Price – Essay on the Picturesque, As Compared with the Sublime and The Beautiful Patrick Russell – Natural History of Aleppo (sometimes seen as 2nd ed. of Alexander Russell's eponymous 1756 work) Walter Whiter – Specimen of a Commentary on Shakspeare Births January 11 – Jean Philibert Damiron, French philosopher (died 1862) May 17 – Anna Brownell Jameson, Irish-born essayist, travel writer and editor (died 1860)Iab Chivers The Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists Oxford Oxford University Press 2009 315 978-0-19172-763-4 May 24 – William Whewell, English polymath (died 1866) August 16 – Jean-Henri Merle d'Aubigné, Swiss historian of the Reformation (died 1872) September 15 – Rosine de Chabaud-Latour, French religious thinker and translator (died 1860)de Latour Juillerat-Chasseur Suzanne Chabaud Un épisode de l'histoire de la Terreur à Nîmes, extrait des souvenirs personnels de Madame Juillerat-Chasseur née Suzanne Chabaud de Latour Montbéliard Montbéliardaise 1902 23416707 FR 148 Uncertain date Emma Roberts, English travel writer and poet (died 1840) Deaths January 16 – Edward Gibbon, English historian (born 1737) March 5 – Ramón de la Cruz, Spanish dramatist (born 1731) March 24 – Jacques Hébert, French radical journalist (guillotined, born 1757) April 5 – Susanna Blamire, English dialect poet and songwriter (born 1747) April 13 – Nicolas Chamfort, French wit (suicide, born 1741) April 15 – Fabre d'Églantine, French dramatist and poet (guillotined, born 1750) April 27 – Sir William Jones, English philologist (born 1746) June 3 – Girolamo Tiraboschi, Italian literary critic (born 1731) June 8 – Gottfried August Bürger, German poet (born 1747) July 25 André Chénier, French poet (guillotined, born 1762) Jean-Antoine Roucher, French poet (guillotined, born 1745) August 14 – George Colman the Elder, English dramatist and essayist (born 1732) November 16 – Rudolf Erich Raspe, German writer (born 1736)Wolfgang Harich Philosophiegeschichte und Geschichtsphilosophie - Vorlesungen: Teilband 2: Vom Entwicklungsgedanken der Aufklärung bis zur Gegenwartskritik https://books.google.com/books?id=-gV4DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA857 9 December 2015 Tectum Wissenschaftsverlag 978-3-8288-6343-9 857 de References 30em Sources Gregory Allene The French Revolution and the English novel 1915 The Knickerbocker Press https://archive.org/details/frenchrevolution00alle2 Holmes, Richard. Footsteps: Adventures of a Romantic Biographer. New York: Viking, 1985. 0-670-32353-5. Holmes, Richard. Coleridge. New York: Pantheon Books, 1989. Todd, Janet. Death & the Maidens: Fanny Wollstonecraft and the Shelley Circle. Berkeley: Counterpoint, 2007. 978-1-58243-339-4; (NB "Fanny Wollstonecraft" here = Fanny Imlay). Todd, Janet. Mary Wollstonecraft: A Revolutionary Life. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2000. 0-231-12184-9. Tomalin, Claire. The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft. Rev. ed. New York: Penguin, 1992. 0-14-016761-7. External links 1794 Books at Goodreads