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Overview of the events of 1788 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of
1788
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Events
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New books
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Fiction
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Children
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Drama
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Poetry
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Non-fiction
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Births
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- January 22
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George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron
, English poet (died
1824
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- February 28
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Samuel Bamford
, English writer, poet and radical (died
1872
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- March 1
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Gheorghe Asachi
, Moldavian polymath (died
1869
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- March 20
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Thomas Medwin
, English poet, biographer and translator (died
1869
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- September 22
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Theodore Edward Hook
, English man of letters and composer (died
1841
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October 14
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Robert Millhouse
, English weaver poet (died
1839
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- October 24
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Sarah Josepha Hale
, American novelist and poet (died
1879
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- December 6
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Richard Harris Barham
(Thomas Ingoldsby), English novelist, poet and cleric (died
1845
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Deaths
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- March 31
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Frances Vane, Viscountess Vane
(Lady Fanny), English memoirist (born
1715
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- May 17
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Dorothea Biehl
, Danish dramatist and translator (born
1731
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- July 21
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Gaetano Filangieri
, Italian philosopher (born
1752
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- August 4
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Evan Evans
(Ieuan Fardd or Ieuan Brydydd Hir), priest and poet, 57
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- August 16
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Francisco Javier Alegre
, Mexican historian and translator (born
1729
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- September 16
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Andrea Spagni
, Italian theologian (born
1716
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- October 13
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Robert Nugent, 1st Earl Nugent
, Irish politician and poet (born
1709
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References
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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
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"Mary Wollstonecraft | Biography, Works, & Facts"
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Encyclopedia Britannica
. Retrieved
10 August
2019
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Francis, Sing-chen Lydia (2002). "
"What Confucius Wouldn't Talk About": The Grotesque Body and Literati Identities in Yuan Mei's "Zi buyu"
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Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews
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24
: 129?160.
doi
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10.2307/823479
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ISSN
0161-9705
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JSTOR
823479
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Aneirin Lewis.
"Evans, Evan Ieuan Fardd or Ieuan Brydydd Hir 1731-1788), scholar, poet, and cleric"
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Dictionary of Welsh Biography
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National Library of Wales
. Retrieved
21 August
2020
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