1778 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1778.
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Events
- October – On her father's death,[1] novelist Sarah Scott receives a legacy that enables her to give up writing.[2]
- c. November – Printing of Nathaniel Brassey Halhed's Grammar of the Bengali Language in Hooghly for the British East India Company is completed, the first such grammar in English and the first publication using a Bengali typeface, devised by Charles Wilkins.[3]
- unknown dates
- A new edition of The Plays of William Shakespeare is published, edited by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens. It includes Edmond Malone's essay "An Attempt to Ascertain the Order in Which the Plays Attributed to Shakspeare Were Written".[4]
- Fanny Burney's novel Evelina is published anonymously.
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, or The History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World
- Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (anonymously) – The Sylph. Sometimes ascribed to Sophia Briscoe
- Pierre-Louis Ginguené – Satire des Satires
- Ignacy Krasicki – Pan Podstoli, part 1
- Clara Reeve – The Old English Baron
- Lady Mary Walker – Munster Village
Children
- Mrs. Barbauld
- Lessons for Children of Two to Three
- Lessons for Children of Three (two parts, a fourth book, for four-year-olds, in 1779)
Drama
- Henry Brooke – collected plays
- Elizabeth Craven – The Sleep Walker
- Richard Cumberland
- Charles Dibdin – Poor Vulcan
- Samuel Foote
- The Devil upon Two Sticks
- The Nabob
- The Taylors
- Jean-François de La Harpe – Les Barmecides
- John Home – Alfred
- Hannah More – Percy
- John O'Keeffe – Tony Lumpkin in Town
- Samuel Jackson Pratt – Joseph Andrews
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan – The Camp
Poetry
- John Codrington Bampfylde – Sixteen Sonnets
- Thomas Chatterton – Miscellanies
- William Combe – The Auction
- George Ellis as "Sir Gregory Gander" – Poetical Tales
- William Hayley – A Poetical Epistle to an Eminent Painter
- John Scott – Moral Eclogues
- John Wolcot as "Peter Pindar" – A Poetical, Supplicating, Modest and Affecting Epistle to those Literary Colossuses the Reviewers
- Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos – Jovino a sus amigos de Sevilla
- Vicente Garcia de la Huerta – Obras poéticas
- Pedro Montengón – Odas
Non-fiction
- Edmund Burke – Two Letters on the Trade of Ireland
- Theodor Gottlieb von Hippel the Elder – Lebenslaufe nach aufsteigender Linie (begins publication)
- Vicesimus Knox – Essays Moral and Literary
- Ann Murry – Mentoria
- Thomas Pennant – A Tour in Wales
- Gilbert Stuart – A View of Society in Europe
- Thomas West – A Guide to the Lakes
- Lorenzo Hervás y Panduro – Idea dell'Universo
- Francisco Javier Llampillas – Saggio apologetic della letteratura spagnuola contro le pregiudicate opinion di alcuni moderni scritori italiani
Births
- January 26 – Ugo Foscolo, Italian poet (died 1827)
- March 24 – Robert Fleming Gourlay, Scottish-born Canadian agriculturist and writer (died 1863)
- April 10 – William Hazlitt, English essayist and literary critic (died 1830)
- April 19 – Elizabeth Wynne Fremantle, English diarist (died 1857)
- June 28 – John David Macbride, English Arabist and academic (died 1868)
- June 1 – Margaret Holford the younger, English poet and novelist (died 1852)
- August 22 – James Kirke Paulding, American novelist and politician (died 1860)
- September 9 – Clemens Brentano, German novelist and poet (died 1842)
- November 1 – Mary Brunton, Scottish novelist (died 1818)[5]
- November 28 – Christoph Ernst von Houwald, German dramatist (died 1845)
- December 16 – Ludwig Robert, German dramatist (died 1832)
- December 18 – Joseph Grimaldi, English autobiographer and clown (died 1837)
Deaths
- January 10 – Eva König, German woman of letters (born 1736)
- February 10 – Mary Jones, English poet (born 1707)
- March 13 – Charles le Beau, French historian (born 1701)
- May 27 – Christian Tobias Damm, German philologist and theologian (born 1699)
- May 30 – Voltaire, French philosopher and satirist (born 1694)
- July 3 – Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher (born 1712)
- July 5
- Antonio Collalto, Italian actor and dramatist (born 1713)
- James Townley, English dramatist (born 1714)
- October 6 – William Worthington, English theologian (born 1703)
- November 11 – Anne Steele, English poet and hymn-writer (born 1717)
- November 22 – Edward Rowe Mores, English antiquarian and scholar (born 1731)[6]
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. p. 6.
- Kelly, Gary. "Scott, Sarah (1720–1795)." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford UP, 2004.
- Dalrymple, William (2004). White Mughals: love and betrayal in eighteenth-century India. Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0-14-200412-8.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link).
- Paul Tankard, "Boswell, George Steevens, and the Johnsonian Biography Wars". The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, 22 (2012), pp. 73–95.
- Royle, Trevor (2012). The Mainstream Companion to Scottish Literature. Random House. p. 92. ISBN 9781780574196.
- Edward Hasted (1782). The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent... author. p. 580.
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