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Overview of the events of 1790 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1790 .
Events
New books
Fiction
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
January 1 –
James Wills , Irish poet (died
1868 )
January 10 –
Anders Abraham Grafström , Swedish historian, priest and poet (died
1870 )
[9]
January 29 –
George Métivier ,
Guernsey poet writing in
Guernésiais (died
1881 )
March 3 –
John Austin , English legal philosopher (died
1859 )
March 10 –
Jacques Arago , French traveller and writer (died
1855 )
[10]
March 18 –
Marquis de Custine , French aristocrat and travel writer (died
1857 )
[11]
June 9 –
Abel-François Villemain , French politician and writer (died
1870 )
[12]
June 24 –
Helena Ekblom , Swedish writer and preacher (died
1859 )
July 8 –
Fitz-Greene Halleck , American poet (died
1867 )
[13]
August 8 –
Ferenc Kölcsey , Hungarian poet and critic (died
1838 )
[14]
October 1 –
Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna , English novelist (died
1846 )
October 21 –
Alphonse de Lamartine , French poet (died
1869 )
[15]
December 8 –
Richard Carlile , English advocate of suffrage and press freedom (died
1843 )
December 25 –
Anna Eliza Bray , English novelist and travel writer (died
1883 )
Unknown date —
Mary Diana Dods (also as David Lyndsay and Walter Sholto Douglas), Scottish writer (died
1830 in literature )
Deaths
February 19 –
Thomas de Mahy, marquis de Favras , man of letters (born
1744 ; executed)
March 20 –
Thomas Richards of Coychurch , cleric and lexicographer (born c.1710)
[16]
April 3 –
Ephraim Kuh , German poet, 58/9
[17]
April 29 –
Charles-Nicolas Cochin , French art critic (born
1715 )
[18]
May 2 –
Martin Madan , English writer and cleric (born
1726 )
May 6 –
Jacques Antoine Hippolyte, Comte de Guibert , French military writer (born
1743 )
May 21 –
Thomas Warton , English poet and literary historian (born
1798 )
[19]
July 7 –
François Hemsterhuis , Dutch philosopher (born
1721 )
[20]
July 17 –
Adam Smith , Scottish philosopher and political economist (born
1723 )
[21]
July 25 –
William Livingston , American political writer and politician (born
1723 )
[22]
unknown date –
Maria Vittoria Ottoboni , Italian stage actress, writer and salonist (b.
1721 )
[23]
probable –
Marc-Antoine Eidous , French encyclopedist (born c. 1724)
[24]
References
^ Maike Oergel (19 December 2012).
(Re-)Writing the Radical: Enlightenment, Revolution and Cultural Transfer in 1790s Germany, Britain and France . Walter de Gruyter. p. 239.
ISBN
978-3-11-029011-0 .
^ Evelyn Morchard Bishop; Oliver Stonor (1951).
Blake's Hayley: The Life, Works, and Friendships of William Hayley . Gollancz. p. 120.
^ Patry, William F.
"Copyright Law and Practice" . Retrieved 2014-01-01 .
^ Jon Mee (26 May 2016).
Print, Publicity, and Popular Radicalism in the 1790s: The Laurel of Liberty . Cambridge University Press. p. 206.
ISBN
978-1-107-13361-7 .
^ Miller, Ernest (2005-06-09).
"June 9, 1790" . Corante . Archived from
the original on 2014-01-02. Retrieved 2014-05-23 .
^ Webber, Caroline (2007-08-24).
"Ann Radcliffe: A Sicilian Romance" . The Literary Encyclopedia .
^ Lamport, Francis John (1990).
German Classical Drama: Theatre, Humanity and Nation, 1750-1870 . Cambridge University Press. p.
90 .
ISBN
0-521-36270-9 .
^ Baigent, Elizabeth (2004).
"Starke, Mariana (1762–1838)" .
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Online ed.). Oxford University Press.
doi :
10.1093/ref:odnb/26314 . Retrieved 2014-05-23 . (subscription or
UK public library membership required)
^ Gösta Lundström.
"Anders A Grafström" (in Swedish). Svenskt biografiskt lexikon. Retrieved January 1, 2019 .
^ Pietsch, Theodore (1997). Collection building in ichthyology and herpetology . Lawrence, Kan: American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists. p. 56.
ISBN
9780935868913 .
^ France, Peter (2000). L'invitation au voyage : studies in honour of Peter France . Oxford: Voltaire Foundation. p. 251.
ISBN
9780729407304 .
^ John Clark Ridpath (1900). The Standard American Encyclopedia of Arts, Sciences, History, Biography, Geography, Statistics, and General Knowledge . Standard American Publishing Company. p. 2620.
^ Leary, Lewis (1980). American Literature To 1900 . London: Macmillan Education, Limited. p. 145.
ISBN
9781349164189 .
^
"Ferenc Kolcsey" . Encyclopedia Britannica . Retrieved 20 March 2018 .
^ Claeys, Gregory (2005). Encyclopedia of nineteenth-century thought . London New York: Routledge. p. 266.
ISBN
9780415244190 .
^
"Richards, Thomas (1710?-1790)" .
Dictionary of National Biography . London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
^ Franck (1883), "
Kuh, Ephraim ",
Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 17, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 317–318
^
The English cyclopædia: A new dictionary of universal knowledge . Bradbury & Evans. 1858. p. 299.
^
The Aldine Magazine of Biography, Bibliography, Criticism and the Arts . Simpkin, Marshall & Company. 1839. p. 265.
^ Heinz Moenkemeyer (1975).
François Hemsterhuis . Twayne Publishers. p.
8 .
ISBN
978-0-8057-2419-6 .
^
"Adam Smith (1723–1790)" . BBC . Retrieved 20 March 2018 .
^ Theodore Sedgwick (March 2009).
A Memoir of the Life of William Livingston . Applewood Books. p. 416.
ISBN
978-1-4290-1699-5 .
^ E. Verga, Storia della vita milanese, Milano 1931
^
Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century . Institut et musée Voltaire. 1984. p. 491.