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

Events [ edit ]

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.

Thomas Day ? A History of Little Jack
Francois 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

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)

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 )

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 )

^ 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 .
^ "Mary Wollstonecraft | Biography, Works, & Facts" . Encyclopedia Britannica . Retrieved 10 August 2019 .
^ 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 .
^ 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 .