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Overview of the events of 1793 in literature
Overview of the events of 1793 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1793 .
Events February 7 – The day after poverty-stricken playwright Carlo Goldoni dies, the National Convention votes to restore his French state pension, which has been suspended due to the French Revolution . It is passed on to his widow.[1] Girondist
Madame Roland is arrested for treason. She writes
Appel à l'impartiale postérité in prison before being
guillotined on November 8.
[2] Summer – William Wordsworth tours western England and Wales (passing by Tintern Abbey ). His first poems, An Evening Walk and Descriptive Sketches are published this year.[3]
October–November – During the Reign of Terror in the French Revolution, the English writer .
November 2 – The French dramatist Olympe de Gouges is sentenced to death by a revolutionary tribunal. Both she and her prosecutors quote the manuscript of her unfinished play La France Sauvée in evidence.[4] December 9 – New York City 's first daily newspaper, the American Minerva Noah Webster .[5] unknown date – James Lackington opens his "Temple of the Muses" bookshop in Finsbury Square , London.[6] The Royal Library, Denmark , in Copenhagen , opens to the public. New books Fiction Drama Poetry Non-fiction William Frend
– Peace and Union Recommended to the Associated Bodies of Republicans and Anti-Republicans Births February 2 – Mary Elizabeth Mohl , née Clarke, English-born literary saloniste (died 1883 )April 4 – Casimir Delavigne , French poet and dramatist (died 1843 )[7] May 4 – Dorothea Primrose Campbell , Scottish poet and novelist (died 1863 )June 1 – Henry Francis Lyte , English hymnist and cleric (died 1847 )June 28 – Georg Friedrich Schömann , German classicist (died 1879 )July 2 – Joseph Isidore Samson , French playwright and actor (died 1871 )July 13 – John Clare , English "peasant poet" (died 1864 )[8] Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps, American educator, scientist and writer (died
1884 )
[9] August 25 – John Neal , American novelist and critic (died 1876 )[10] September 25 – Felicia Hemans , English poet (died 1835 )[11] October 1 – Peter Kaiser , Liechtenstein statesman and historian (died 1864 )November 28 – Carl Jonas Love Almqvist , Swedish novelist (died 1866 )December 15 – Henry Charles Carey , American economist (died 1879 )December 28 – Karl Friedrich Neumann , German Orientalist (died 1870 )unknown date – Sarah Austin , English editor and translator (died 1867 )Deaths January 4 – Bengt Lidner , Swedish poet (born 1757 )February 6 – Carlo Goldoni , Italian dramatist and librettist (born 1707 )[12] April 2 – Colin Macfarquhar , Scottish bookseller and printer, co-founder of Encyclopædia Britannica April 29 – John Michell , English philosopher and cleric (born 1724 )May 20 – Charles Bonnet , Swiss naturalist and philosopher (born 1720 )June 26
July 4 – Antoine-Marin Lemierre , French dramatist and poet (born 1733 )November 3 – Olympe de Gouges , French dramatist and political activist (guillotined; born 1748 )[4] November 17 – Louis Pierre Manuel , French essayist and politician (guillotined, born 1751 )December 22 – William Watkiss Lloyd , English polymath (born 1813 )References 
