1792 in literature

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This is a list of literature-related events in 1792.

Events

Molière's body is moved to the "museum of French monuments", having been originally buried in the ground reserved for unbaptised infants because actors were not allowed to be buried on sacred ground.

Hugh Henry Brackenridge - Modern Chivalry: containing the Adventures of Captain John Farrago and Teague O'Regan, His servant
Johann Baptist Durach - Philippine Welserin
Susannah Gunning - Anecdotes of the Delborough Family
Charlotte Turner Smith - Desmond

February 10 - Frederick Marryat (Captain Marryat), novelist (died 1848)
April 5 - John Lavicount Anderdon, Christian writer noted for his fishing literature (died 1874)^[1]
April 25 - John Keble, poet (died 1866)
May 4 - Dorothea Primrose Campbell, poet and novelist (died 1863)
June 21 - Ferdinand Christian Baur, German theologian (died 1860)
August 4 - Percy Bysshe Shelley, poet (died 1822)
October 17 - Sir John Bowring, political economist and miscellaneous writer (died 1872)
November 26 - Sarah Grimké, abolitionist and writer (died 1873)

April 23 - Karl Friedrich Bahrdt, theologian (born 1741)
May 4 - Giuseppe Garampi, book collector (born 1725)
May 12 - Charles Simon Favart, French dramatist (born 1710)
June 4
- John Burgoyne, soldier and dramatist (born 1723)
- Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz, German dramatist (born 1751)
August 25 - Jacques Cazotte, novelist (born 1719; executed)^[2]
December 7 - Marie Jeanne Riccoboni, novelist (born 1714)
date unknown - Nicholas Adam, French grammarian (born 1716)

↑ This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Anderdon, John Lavicount". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900. Check date values in: |date= (help)
↑ Charlotte Trinquet, "Cazotte, Jacques" in The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Folktales and Fairy Tales: A-F edited by Donald Haase, Greenwood Publishing Group, ISBN 0-313-33441-2, (pp. 170–1)

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