1781 in literature
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[edit] Events
- The capitulation of General Cornwallis at the Siege of Yorktown.
- Friedrich Schiller arrested after the first performance of his play, The Robbers
[edit] New books
- Anna Barbauld - Hymns in Prose for Children
- Edward Gibbon - Volumes II and III of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
- Henry Home - Loose Hints Upon Education
- Samuel Johnson - The Beauties of Johnson
- Immanuel Kant - Critique of Pure Reason
- John Moore - A View of Society and Manners in Italy
- John Newton - Cardiphonia
- John Nichols - Biographical Anecdotes of William Hogarth
- Jean Jacques Rousseau - Confessions
[edit] Poetry
- William Cowper - Anti-Thelyphthora
- George Crabbe - The Library
- Anne Francis - A Poetical Translation of the Song of Solomon
- Philip Freneau - The British Prison-Ship
- William Hayley - The Triumphs of Temper
- George Keate - Works
- Samuel Jackson Pratt - Sympathy
[edit] Fiction
- Robert Bage - Mount Henneth
- William Combe - Letters of an Italian Nun and an English Gentelman
- Charles Johnstone - The Hisotry of John Juniper
- Henry Mackenzie - Julia de Roubignei
- Glocester Ridley - Melanpus
- Anna Seward - Monody on Major Andre
[edit] New drama
- Miles Peter Andrews - Dissipation
- Frances Brooke - The Siege of Sinope
- John Delap - The Royal Supplicants
- Thomas Holcroft - Duplicity
- Elizabeth Inchbald – Polygamy
- Robert Jephson - The Count of Narbonne
- Samuel Jackson Pratt - The Fair Circassian
- Friedrich Schiller - Die Räuber (The Robbers)
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan - A Trip to Scarborough
- - The Critic
[edit] Births
- January 26 - Achim von Arnim
- January 30 - Adelbert von Chamisso, poet
- November 6 - Lucy Aikin
- David Brewster
- Ebenezer Elliott
- George Stephenson
[edit] Deaths
- February 15 - Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
- April 4 - Henry Thrale, friend of Samuel Johnson and husband of Hester Thrale
- Richard Jago
