1799 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1799.

Events

PremiÃ¨res of the second and third parts of Friedrich Schiller's dramatic trilogy Wallenstein are performed at the Weimarer Hoftheater under Johann Wolfgang von Goethe:
- January 30 â Die Piccolomini.
- April 20 â Wallensteins Tod (Wallenstein's Death) as Wallenstein.
April 13 â The father of Charles and Mary Lamb dies; Charles becomes his sister's guardian.^[1]
May 8 â The Religious Tract Society is established as an evangelical publisher in Paternoster Row, London; it continues as The Lutterworth Press into the 21st century.^[2]
December 20 â William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy first take up residence at Dove Cottage, Grasmere. William completes the first version of The Prelude during the year.
unknown dates
- A new edition of Edward Young's Night Thoughts is illustrated by Thomas Stothard.^[3]
- The Monthly Magazine and American Review starts publication in the United States, edited by Charles Brockden Brown.^[4]

FranÃ§ois Guillaume Ducray-Duminil â Les Cinquante Francs de Jeannette (Jeanette's Fifty Francs)
Edward Augustus Kendall
- The Crested Wren. A Tale
- The Canary Bird. A moral fiction interspersed with poetry
Dorothy Kilner (as M. Pelham) â Rational Brutes, or Talking Animals

January 31 â Rodolphe TÃ¶pffer, Swiss teacher, author, and artist (died 1846)^[9]
February 4
- Almeida Garrett, Portuguese writer (died 1854)^[10]
- Thomas Kibble Hervey, Scottish-born poet and critic (died 1859)
March â Dorothea Tieck, German translator (died 1841)
March 12 â Mary Howitt, English writer, poet and translator (died 1888)
March 13 â Maria Dorothea Dunckel, Swedish poet, translator and dramatist (died 1878)
March 20 â Karl August Nicander, Swedish poet (died 1839)^[11]
April 17 â Eliza Acton, English poet and cookery writer (died 1859)^[12]
May 13 â Catherine Gore, English author (died 1861)
May 23 â Thomas Hood, English poet (died 1845)^[14]
June 6 â Aleksandr Pushkin, Russian dramatist and poet (died 1837)
October 9 â Louisa Stuart Costello Irish writer on travel and history (died 1870)
November 29 â Amos Bronson Alcott, American writer, philosopher, and reformer (died 1888)^[15]
December 30 â John Moultrie, English poet and hymnist (died 1874)
unknown date â Rallou Karatza, Greek Wallachian translator and theatrical promoter (died 1870)

February 19 â Jean-Charles de Borda, French engineer and memoirist (born 1733)
February 24 â Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, German satirist (born 1742)^[16]
April 24 â William Seward, English man of letters (born 1747)
May 18 â Pierre Beaumarchais, French dramatist (born 1732)^[17]
August 30 â Eleonora Fonseca Pimentel, Italian poet and revolutionary (executed, born 1751)^[18]
December 31 â Jean-FranÃ§ois Marmontel, French historian, writer (born 1723)^[19]