1788 in literature

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See also: 1787 in literature, other events of 1788, 1789 in literature, list of years in literature.

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

[edit] Events

• Ann Ward marries William Radcliffe, gaining the surname under which she will become known as a writer of Gothic novels.

[edit] New books

• Charlotte Turner Smith - Emmeline; or The Orphan of the Castle
• Mary Wollstonecraft - Mary: A Fiction

[edit] New drama

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

[edit] Non-fiction

• 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

[edit] 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

[edit] Deaths

• October 13 - Robert Nugent, 1st Earl Nugent, Irish politician and poet (b. 1702)