1794 in literature
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This is a list of literature-related events in 1794.
Events
- March 12 - The rebuilt Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in London, designed by Henry Holland, opens to the public.
- Autumn–December - English playwright Thomas Holcroft is indicted for treason as a member of the Society for Constitutional Information and held in Newgate Prison, London, but released without charge.
- November 14 - The first recorded meeting of the Franklin Literary Society is held at Canonsburg Academy (modern-day Washington & Jefferson College) in Pennsylvania.[1]
- Robert Southey's first collection of poetry is published; he also writes the radical play Wat Tyler.
- Ludwig Tieck graduates and begins a literary career.
New books
Fiction
- Xavier de Maistre - Voyage autour de ma chambre
- Giorgio Ferrich - Fabulae ab Illyricis adagiis disumptae
- William Godwin - Caleb Williams
- Ann Radcliffe - The Mysteries of Udolpho
- Mary Robinson - The Widow; or, A Picture of Modern Times
- Susanna Rowson - Charlotte Temple (first American edition)
- Thomas Spence - A Description of Spensonia
Non-fiction
- Edward Gibbon - Memoirs of My Life and Writings
- Sake Dean Mahomet - The Travel 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
New drama
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey - The Fall of Robespierre
- Richard Cumberland
- François Juste Marie Raynouard - Caton d'Utique
- Mary Robinson - Nobody: A Comedy in Two Acts
New poetry
Main article: 1794 in poetry
- William Blake - Songs of Experience
- Isabella Kelly - Collection of Poems and Fables
Births
- January 11 – Jean Philibert Damiron, French philosopher (died 1862)
- May 17 – Anna Brownell Jameson, Irish-born essayist and editor (died 1860)
- May 24 – William Whewell, English polymath (died 1866)
- August 16 – Jean-Henri Merle d'Aubigné, Swiss historian of the Reformation (died 1872)
Deaths
- January 16 – Edward Gibbon, historian (born 1737)
- March 24 – Jacques Hébert, journalist (guillotined, born 1757)
- April 13 – Nicolas Chamfort, epigrammatist (suicide, born 1741)
- April 15 – Fabre d'Églantine, dramatist and poet (guillotined, born 1750)
- April 27 – Sir William Jones, philologist (born 1746)
- June 3 – Girolamo Tiraboschi, Italian literary critic (born 1731)
- June 8 – Gottfried August Bürger, German poet (born 1747)
- July 24
- André Chénier, French poet (guillotined, born 1762)
- Jean-Antoine Roucher, French poet (guillotined, born 1745)
- August 14 – George Colman the Elder, English dramatist and essayist (born 1732)
- November – Rudolf Erich Raspe, German author of the adventures of Baron Munchausen (born 1736)
In literature
- Victorien Sardou's play Thermidor (1891) is set in this year.
References
- ↑ McClelland, W. C. (1903). "A History of Literary Societies at Washington & Jefferson College". The Centennial Celebration of the Chartering of Jefferson College in 1802. Philadelphia: George H. Buchanan and Company. pp. 111–132.