1794 in literature
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[edit] Events
- The rebuilt Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, designed by Henry Holland, opens on March 12.
- 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 is graduated and begins a literary career.
[edit] New books
[edit] Fiction
- Giorgio Ferrich - Fabulae ab Illyricis adagiis disumptae
- William Godwin - Caleb Williams
- Ann Radcliffe - The Mysteries of Udolpho
[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
- Walter Whiter - Specimen of a Commentary on Shakespeare
[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] 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
