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Overview of the events of 1778 in literature
Overview of the events of 1778 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1778 .
Events October – On her father's death,[1] Sarah Scott receives a legacy that enables her to give up writing.[2]
c. November – Printing of
unknown dates
New books Fiction Anonymous – The Travels of Hildebrand Bowman, Esquire, into Carnovirria, Taupiniera, Olfactaria, and Auditante, in New-Zealand; in the Island of Bonhommica, and in the Powerful Kingdom of Luxo-Volupto, on the Great Southern Continent
Fanny Burney (anonymously) –
Evelina Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (anonymously) – The Sylph (sometimes ascribed to Sophia Briscoe )Pierre-Louis Ginguené – Satire des Satires Ignacy Krasicki – Pan Podstoli [5] Clara Reeve – The Old English Baron Lady Mary Walker – Munster Village Children Mrs. Barbauld
Lessons for Children of Two to Three [6] Lessons for Children of Three (two parts, a fourth book, for four-year-olds, in 1779)Drama Poetry Non-fiction Births Margaret Bayard Smith February 20 – Margaret Bayard Smith , American writer (died 1844 )[11] February 22 – Gottfried Wilhelm Becker , German physician, writer and translator (died 1854 )[12] March 24 – Robert Fleming Gourlay , Scottish-born Canadian agriculturist and writer (died 1863 )[13] April 10 – William Hazlitt , English essayist and literary critic (died 1830 )[14] April 19 – Elizabeth Wynne Fremantle , English diarist (died 1857 )May – John Peter Pruden , pioneer of western Canada, fur trader, and writer (died 1868 )[15]
June 1 – Margaret Holford the younger, English poet and novelist (died 1852 )June 28
July 15 – Henry Joseph Monck Mason , Irish writer and musician (died 1858 )[17] August 22 – James Kirke Paulding , American novelist and politician (died 1860 )[18] August 23 – William Burt , English solicitor and writer (died 1826 )[19] September 2 – Michał Józef Römer , Polish politician and writer (died 1853 )September 9 – Clemens Brentano , German novelist and poet (died 1842 )[20] October 22 – Javier de Burgos , Spanish writer, politician and jurist (died 1849 )[21] November 1 – Mary Brunton , Scottish novelist (died 1818 )[22] November 28 – Christoph Ernst von Houwald , German dramatist (died 1845 )[23] November 29 – Hryhorii Kvitka-Osnovianenko , Ukrainian writer, journalist, and playwright (died 1843 )[24] December 8 – George Crabb , British writer (died 1851 )[25] December 15 – John Penrose , Church of England clergyman and theologian (died 1859 )December 16 – Ludwig Robert , German dramatist (died 1832 )December 18 – Joseph Grimaldi , English autobiographer and clown (died 1837 )[26] unknown date – Mary Robinson (Maid of Buttermere) , English literary muse (died 1837)Deaths References
^ Matthew Montagu (1830). Minutes of evidence taken before the Committee for Privileges, to whom the petition of ... Matthew Baron Rokeby ... praying that his right to vote at the Election of Peers of Ireland to sit in the Parliament of the United Kingdom may be admitted, stands referred ^ Kelly, Gary . "Scott, Sarah (1720–1795)." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography . Oxford UP, 2004.. ^ Paul Tankard, "Boswell, George Steevens, and the Johnsonian Biography Wars". The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual , 22 (2012), pp. 73–95.
^ George Saintsbury (1907). Periods of European Literature . ^ Country Life . . ^ Francesco Flamini (1907). A History of Italian Literature (1265-1907) . ^ The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge ^ Lawrence M. Lande (1957). Old Lamps Aglow: An Appreciation of Early Canadian Poetry ^ Alexander IRELAND (1868). List of the writings of William Hazlitt and Leigh Hunt, chronologically arranged, with notes ... . ^ John Ward Dean; George Folsom; John Gilmary Shea (1860). The Historical Magazine and Notes and Queries Concerning the Antiquities, History and Biography of America . . ^ Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art (1887). Report & Transactions . ^ The Men of the Time: Or, Sketches of Living Notables ... . ^ Franklin Henry Hooper (1937). The Encyclopædia Britannica . . ^ Albert Edward Wilson (1946). Pantomime Pageant: A Procession of Harlequins, Clowns, Comedians, Principal Boys, Pantomime-writers, Producers and Playgoers ^ Peter Gay, The Enlightenment – An Interpretation, Volume 2: The Science of Freedom , Wildwood House, London, 1973, pp. 88–89.
. ^ John Parker (1967). Who's who in the Theatre . ^ Edward Hasted (1782). The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent...
