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

- Premières 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]
New books
Fiction
- Anonymous â Village Orphan
- Charles Brockden Brown
- Thomas Campbell â The Pleasures of Hope
- T. J. Horsley Curties â Ethelwina, Or The House of Fitz-Auburne
- Elizabeth Gunning â The Gipsey Countess
- Mary Hays â The Victim of Prejudice
- Friedrich Hölderlin â Hyperion, vol. 2
- William Henry Ireland â The Abbess
- Jane West â A Tale of the Times
- Mary Julia Young â The East Indian
Children
- François 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
Drama
- Thomas John Dibdin
- William Dunlap â The Italian Father[6]
- Joseph George Holman â The Votary of Wealth
- Elizabeth Inchbald â The Wise Man of the East
- Kamesuke â Picture Book of the Taiko (kabuki)[7]
- Matthew Lewis â The East Indian
- Edward Morris â The Secret
- Frederick Reynolds â Management
- Friedrich von Schiller â Wallensteins Tod
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan â Pizarro
- Oscar Wegelin â The Natural Daughter[8]
- Thomas Sedgwick Whalley â The Castle of Montval
Poetry
Non-fiction
- Hannah Adams â A Summary History of New-England
- Hannah More â Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education
- Lady Charlotte Murray â The British Garden
- Philip Yorke â The Royal Tribes of Wales
Births
- January 31 â Rodolphe Töpffer, 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 20 â Honoré de Balzac, French novelist (died 1850)[13]
- 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)
Deaths
- 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-François Marmontel, French historian, writer (born 1723)[19]