1788 in literature

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Overview of the events of 1788 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1788.

## Events

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* May – Joseph Johnson and Thomas Christie found the radical Analytical Review in London.[1]
* May 10 – Sweden's Royal Dramatic Theatre (Kungliga Dramatiska Teatern) is founded.

## New books

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### Fiction

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* Bernardin de St. Pierre – Paul et Virginie
* Charlotte Turner Smith – Emmeline; or The Orphan of the Castle
* Mary Wollstonecraft – Mary: A Fiction[2]
* Yuan Mei – What the Master Would Not Discuss[3]

### Children

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* Thomas Day – A History of Little Jack
* François Guillaume Ducray-Duminil – Alexis, ou la Maisonnette dans les bois (Alexis or the Little House in the Woods)
* Mary Wollstonecraft – Original Stories from Real Life, with Conversations Calculated to Regulate the Affections, and Form the Mind to Truth and Goodness

### Drama

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* Frances Brooke – Marian
* George Colman the Younger – Ways and Means
* Hannah Cowley – The Fate of Sparta
* Olympe de Gouges – Zamore et Mirza (published)
* Bertie Greatheed – The Regent
* Elizabeth Inchbald
* Animal Magnetism
* The Child of Nature
* John O'Keeffe
* Aladdin
* The Prisoner at Large
* Mariana Starke – The Sword of Peace
* Eglantine Wallace – The Ton

### Poetry

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Main article: 1788 in poetry

* Maria and Harriet Falconar
* Poems
* Poems on Slavery
* Samuel Jackson Pratt – Sympathy

### Non-fiction

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* Anthony Benezet – Some Historical Account of Guinea
* Ralph Broome – Letters of Simkin the Second to his dear brother in Wales, containing a humble description of the trial of Warren Hastings, Esq. (further instalments up to 1791)
* Edward Gibbon – Volumes IV, V, and VI of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
* Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay – The Federalist Papers
* George Hepplewhite (attr.) – Cabinet Maker and Upholsterers Guide
* Immanuel Kant – Critique of Practical Reason (Kritik der praktischen Vernunft)
* Hannah More – Thoughts on the Importance of the Manners of the Great to General Society
* Richard Porson – Letters to Archdeacon Travis
* Thomas Scott – Commentary on the Whole Bible (beginning 174 weekly numbers)

## Births

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* January 22 – George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, English poet (died 1824)
* February 28 – Samuel Bamford, English writer, poet and radical (died 1872)
* March 1 – Gheorghe Asachi, Moldavian polymath (died 1869)
* March 20 – Thomas Medwin, English poet, biographer and translator (died 1869)
* September 22 – Theodore Edward Hook, English man of letters and composer (died 1841)
* c. October 14 – Robert Millhouse, English weaver poet (died 1839)
* October 24 – Sarah Josepha Hale, American novelist and poet (died 1879)
* December 6 – Richard Harris Barham (Thomas Ingoldsby), English novelist, poet and cleric (died 1845)

## Deaths

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* March 31 – Frances Vane, Viscountess Vane (Lady Fanny), English memoirist (born 1715)
* May 17 – Dorothea Biehl, Danish dramatist and translator (born 1731)
* July 21 – Gaetano Filangieri, Italian philosopher (born 1752)
* August 4 – Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd or Ieuan Brydydd Hir), priest and poet, 57[4]
* August 16 – Francisco Javier Alegre, Mexican historian and translator (born 1729)
* September 16 – Andrea Spagni, Italian theologian (born 1716)
* October 13 – Robert Nugent, 1st Earl Nugent, Irish politician and poet (born 1709)

## References

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1. ^ Michael Henry Scrivener (2007). The Cosmopolitan Ideal in the Age of Revolution and Reaction, 1776-1832. Pickering & Chatto. p. 224\. ISBN 978-1-85196-833-6.
2. ^ "Mary Wollstonecraft | Biography, Works, & Facts". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 10 August 2019.
3. ^ Francis, Sing-chen Lydia (2002). ""What Confucius Wouldn't Talk About": The Grotesque Body and Literati Identities in Yuan Mei's "Zi buyu"". Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews. 24: 129–160\. doi:10.2307/823479. ISSN 0161-9705. JSTOR 823479.
4. ^ Aneirin Lewis. "Evans, Evan Ieuan Fardd or Ieuan Brydydd Hir 1731-1788), scholar, poet, and cleric". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 21 August 2020.

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