1798 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

• The Académie française publishes a new edition of its dictionary.

[edit] New books

• Charles Brockden Brown
  • Alcuin: a Dialogue
  • Wieland
• Emily Clark - Ianthé, or the Flower of Caernarvon
• William Godwin - Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
• Regina Maria Roche - Clermont: a Tale
• Mary Wollstonecraft - Posthumous Works (edited by William Godwin); includes Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman)

[edit] New drama

• Friedrich von Schiller - Wallensteins Lager

[edit] Poetry

• Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth - Lyrical Ballads (published anonymously)

[edit] Non-fiction

• Hannah Webster Foster - The Boarding School; or, Lessons of a Preceptress to Her Pupils
• Thomas Malthus - An Essay on the Principle of Population

[edit] Births

• January 5 - David Macbeth Moir, poet and humorist
• February 17 - Auguste Comte
• March 30 - Luise Hensel
• June 29 - Count Giacomo Leopardi, Italian poet

[edit] Deaths

• June 4 - Giacomo Casanova, librarian
• June 20 - Jeremy Belknap, historian of New Hampshire
• December 16 - Thomas Pennant, traveller

[edit] Awards