1794 in literature

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Contents 1 Events 2 New books 3 New drama 4 Poetry 5 Non-fiction 6 Births 7 Deaths 8 Awards

[edit] Events

• Robert Southey's first collection of poetry is published.
• Thomas Holcroft is indicted for treason as a member of the Society for Constitutional Information, but is released without charge.
• Ludwig Tieck graduates and begins his literary career.

[edit] New books

• William Godwin - Caleb Williams
• Ann Radcliffe - The Mysteries of Udolpho

[edit] New drama

• Richard Cumberland - The Jew
• François Juste Marie Raynouard - Caton d'Utique

[edit] Poetry

• William Blake - Songs of Experience
• Isabella Kelly - Collection of Poems and Fables

[edit] Non-fiction

• Edward Gibbon - Memoirs of my own Life
• Sake Dean Mahomet - The Travels of Dean Mahomet
• Thomas James Mathias - The Pursuits of Literature
• Thomas Paine - The Age of Reason
• William Paley - View of the Evidences of Christianity

[edit] Births

• January 11 - Jean Philibert Damiron, philosopher
• May 17 - Anna Brownell Jameson
• May 24 - William Whewell
• August 16 - Jean-Henri Merle d'Aubigné, historian of the Reformation

[edit] Deaths

• January 16 - Edward Gibbon, historian
• March 24 - Jacques Hébert, journalist
• April 13 - Nicolas Chamfort
• April 15 - Fabre d'Églantine, dramatist
• April 27 - Sir William Jones (philologist)
• June 3 - Girolamo Tiraboschi
• June 8 - Gottfried August Bürger, poet
• July 24 - Jean-Antoine Roucher and André Chénier, French poets (guillotined)
• date unknown - Rudolf Erich Raspe, author of the adventures of Baron Munchhausen

[edit] Awards