1788 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1788.
Events
- May â Joseph Johnson and Thomas Christie found the radical Analytical Review in London.[1]
- May 10 â Sweden's Royal Dramatic Theatre (Kungliga Dramatiska Teatern) is founded.
New books
Fiction
Children
- Thomas Day â A History of Little Jack
- François Guillaume Ducray-Duminil â Alexis, ou la Maisonnette dans les bois (Alexis or the Little House in the Woods)
- Mary Wollstonecraft â Original Stories from Real Life, with Conversations Calculated to Regulate the Affections, and Form the Mind to Truth and Goodness
Drama
- Frances Brooke â Marian
- George Colman the Younger â Ways and Means
- Hannah Cowley â The Fate of Sparta
- Olympe de Gouges â Zamore et Mirza (published)
- Bertie Greatheed â The Regent
- Elizabeth Inchbald
- John O'Keeffe
- Mariana Starke â The Sword of Peace
- Eglantine Wallace â The Ton
Poetry
- Maria and Harriet Falconar
- Poems
- Poems on Slavery
- Samuel Jackson Pratt â Sympathy
Non-fiction
- Anthony Benezet â Some Historical Account of Guinea
- Ralph Broome â Letters of Simkin the Second to his dear brother in Wales, containing a humble description of the trial of Warren Hastings, Esq. (further instalments up to 1791)
- Edward Gibbon â Volumes IV, V, and VI of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
- Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay â The Federalist Papers
- George Hepplewhite (attr.) â Cabinet Maker and Upholsterers Guide
- Immanuel Kant â Critique of Practical Reason (Kritik der praktischen Vernunft)
- Hannah More â Thoughts on the Importance of the Manners of the Great to General Society
- Richard Porson â Letters to Archdeacon Travis
- Thomas Scott â Commentary on the Whole Bible (beginning 174 weekly numbers)
Births
- January 22 â George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, English poet (died 1824)
- February 28 â Samuel Bamford, English writer, poet and radical (died 1872)
- March 1 â Gheorghe Asachi, Moldavian polymath (died 1869)
- March 20 â Thomas Medwin, English poet, biographer and translator (died 1869)
- September 22 â Theodore Edward Hook, English man of letters and composer (died 1841)
- c. October 14 â Robert Millhouse, English weaver poet (died 1839)
- October 24 â Sarah Josepha Hale, American novelist and poet (died 1879)
- December 6 â Richard Harris Barham (Thomas Ingoldsby), English novelist, poet and cleric (died 1845)
Deaths
- March 31 â Frances Vane, Viscountess Vane (Lady Fanny), English memoirist (born 1715)
- May 17 â Dorothea Biehl, Danish dramatist and translator (born 1731)
- July 21 â Gaetano Filangieri, Italian philosopher (born 1752)
- August 4 â Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd or Ieuan Brydydd Hir), priest and poet, 57[4]
- August 16 â Francisco Javier Alegre, Mexican historian and translator (born 1729)
- September 16 â Andrea Spagni, Italian theologian (born 1716)
- October 13 â Robert Nugent, 1st Earl Nugent, Irish politician and poet (born 1709)