1788 in literature

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Contents

1 Events
2 New books
3 New drama
4 Non-fiction
5 Births
6 Deaths

Events

Ann Ward marries William Radcliffe, gaining the surname under which she will become known as a writer of Gothic novels.
Joseph Johnson and Thomas Christie found the Analytical Review.

New books

New drama

Hannah Cowley - The Fate of Sparta
Elizabeth Inchbald - Animal Magnetism
Frances Brooke - Marian

Non-fiction

Anthony Benezet - Some Historical Account of Guinea
Edward Gibbon - Volumes IV, V, and VI of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
George Hepplewhite (attr.) - Cabinet Maker and Upholsterers Guide
Immanuel Kant - Critique of Practical Reason (Kritik der praktischen Vernunft)
Richard Porson - Letters to Archdeacon Travis

Births

January 22 - George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, English poet (+ 1824)
September 22 - Theodore Edward Hook, English author
December 6 - Richard Harris Barham, author of The Ingoldsby Legends

Deaths

May 17 - Dorothea Biehl, dramatist and translator (born 1731)
July 21 - Gaetano Filangieri, philosopher (b. 1752)
August 16 - Francisco Javier Alegre, historian and translator (b. 1729)
September 16 - Andrea Spagni, theologian (b. 1716)
October 13 - Robert Nugent, 1st Earl Nugent, Irish politician and poet (b. 1702)

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