1789 in literature
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This is a list of literature-related events in 1789.
Events
- December - Première of Olympe de Gouges's abolitionist play Zamore et Mirza (written 1784; published 1788) as L'Esclavage des nègres ("Slavery of the negroes"); shut down after three performances.
- December 28 - Première of Anton Tomaž Linhart's comedy Županova Micka ("Micka, the Mayor's Daughter", an adaptation of Joseph Richter's Die Feldmühle), the first theatrical work in the Slovene language.[1]
- William Hill Brown's sentimental epistolatory novel The Power of Sympathy: or, The Triumph of Nature, usually considered the first American novel, is published in Boston.
- Tomás António Gonzaga is arrested for complicity in the Inconfidência Mineira in Brazil.
- Robert Burns is appointed an exciseman in Scotland.
- Friedrich Schiller is appointed professor of history and philosophy at Jena.
- The Children's Magazine, the first American periodical for children, is published in Hartford, Connecticut. It lasts only three months.
New books
- Elizabeth Bonhôte - Darnley Vale, or, Emelia Fitzroy
- William Hill Brown - The Power of Sympathy.
- Richard Cumberland - Arundel
- Ann Radcliffe - The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne
- Friedrich Schiller - The Ghost-Seer (Der Geisterseher), publication concluded
- James White - Earl Strongbow
New drama
- Elizabeth Inchbald - The Married Man
- Ann Yearsley - Earl Goodwin
New poetry
Main article: 1789 in poetry
- William Blake - Songs of Innocence
- William Lisle Bowles - Sonnets
- Erasmus Darwin - The Loves of the Plants
Non-fiction
- Olaudah Equiano - The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
- Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès - What Is the Third Estate? (Qu'est-ce que le tiers-état?)
Births
- January 11 - John Payne Collier, English Shakespearean critic and forger (died 1883)
- November 15 - James Scholefield, English classical scholar (died 1853)
- December 28 - Catharine Sedgwick, American novelist (died 1867)
Deaths
- January 21 - Baron d'Holbach, French-German author, philosopher and encyclopedist (born 1723)
- June 28 - John Walters, Welsh poet (born 1760)
References
- ↑ Fallon, Steve (2010). "The Culture: Arts". Slovenia (6th ed.). Lonely Planet. pp. 47–48. ISBN 9781741048575.
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