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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 .
New books [ edit ] Fiction [ edit ] 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 [ edit ] 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)Non-fiction [ edit ] 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)References [ edit ]
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^ George Saintsbury (1907). Periods of European Literature ^ Tamara S. Wagner (28 May 2020). The Victorian Baby in Print: Infancy, Infant Care, and Nineteenth-Century Popular Culture ISBN 978-0-19-885801-0 ^ Country Life ^ Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (March 2004). Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama: Volume IV ISBN 978-1-4102-1336-5 ^ William Stewart (2007). British and Irish Poets: A Biographical Dictionary, 449-2006 ISBN 978-0-7864-2891-5 ^ Francesco Flamini (1907). A History of Italian Literature (1265-1907) ^ John Arthur Garraty; Mark Christopher Carnes (1999). American National Biography ISBN 978-0-19-512799-7 ^ 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 ... ^ Gail Morin (2001). Métis Families: Mainville to Pruden ISBN 978-1-58211-412-5 ^ John Ward Dean; George Folsom; John Gilmary Shea (1860). The Historical Magazine and Notes and Queries Concerning the Antiquities, History and Biography of America ^ Henry Joseph Monck Mason (1999). Essay on the Antiquity and Constitution of Parliaments in Ireland ISBN 978-1-56169-554-6 ^ Scholastic Library Publishing (2006). Encyclopedia Americana ISBN 978-0-7172-0139-6 ^ Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art (1887). Report & Transactions ^ Scholastic Library Publishing (2006). Encyclopedia Americana ISBN 978-0-7172-0139-6 ^ The Men of the Time: Or, Sketches of Living Notables ... ^ Royle, Trevor (2012). The Mainstream Companion to Scottish Literature ISBN 9781780574196 ^ Franklin Henry Hooper (1937). The Encyclopædia Britannica ^ Ivan Katchanovski ; Zenon E. Kohut; Bohdan Y. Nebesio; Myroslav Yurkevich (11 July 2013). Historical Dictionary of Ukraine ISBN 978-0-8108-7847-1 ^ Tony Copsey (2000). Suffolk Writers from the Beginning Until 1800: A Catalogue of Suffolk Authors with Some Account of Their Lives and a List of Their Writings ISBN 978-0-9522970-1-7 ^ 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.
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