This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1788.
Events
May – Joseph Johnson and Thomas Christie found the radical Analytical Review in London. May 10 – Sweden's Royal Dramatic Theatre (Kungliga Dramatiska Teatern) is founded.
New books Fiction Bernardin de St. Pierre – Paul et Virginie Charlotte Turner Smith – Emmeline; or The Orphan of the Castle Mary Wollstonecraft – Mary: A Fiction Yuan Mei – What the Master Would Not Discuss
Children Thomas Day – A History of Little Jack François Guillaume Ducray-Duminil – Alexis, ou la Maisonnette dans les bois (Alexis or the Little House in the Woods) Mary Wollstonecraft – Original Stories from Real Life, with Conversations Calculated to Regulate the Affections, and Form the Mind to Truth and Goodness
Drama Frances Brooke – Marian George Colman the Younger – Ways and Means Hannah Cowley – The Fate of Sparta Olympe de Gouges – Zamore et Mirza (published) Bertie Greatheed – The Regent Elizabeth Inchbald Animal Magnetism The Child of Nature John O'Keeffe Aladdin The Prisoner at Large Mariana Starke – The Sword of Peace Eglantine Wallace – The Ton
Poetry
Maria and Harriet Falconar Poems Poems on Slavery Samuel Jackson Pratt – Sympathy
Non-fiction Anthony Benezet – Some Historical Account of Guinea Ralph Broome – Letters of Simkin the Second to his dear brother in Wales, containing a humble description of the trial of Warren Hastings, Esq. (further instalments up to 1791) Edward Gibbon – Volumes IV, V, and VI of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay – The Federalist Papers George Hepplewhite (attr.) – Cabinet Maker and Upholsterers Guide Immanuel Kant – Critique of Practical Reason (Kritik der praktischen Vernunft) Hannah More – Thoughts on the Importance of the Manners of the Great to General Society Richard Porson – Letters to Archdeacon Travis Thomas Scott – Commentary on the Whole Bible (beginning 174 weekly numbers)
Births January 22 – George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, English poet (died 1824) February 28 – Samuel Bamford, English writer, poet and radical (died 1872) March 1 – Gheorghe Asachi, Moldavian polymath (died 1869) March 20 – Thomas Medwin, English poet, biographer and translator (died 1869) September 22 – Theodore Edward Hook, English man of letters and composer (died 1841) c. October 14 – Robert Millhouse, English weaver poet (died 1839) October 24 – Sarah Josepha Hale, American novelist and poet (died 1879) December 6 – Richard Harris Barham (Thomas Ingoldsby), English novelist, poet and cleric (died 1845)
Deaths March 31 – Frances Vane, Viscountess Vane (Lady Fanny), English memoirist (born 1715) May 17 – Dorothea Biehl, Danish dramatist and translator (born 1731) July 21 – Gaetano Filangieri, Italian philosopher (born 1752) August 4 – Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd or Ieuan Brydydd Hir), priest and poet, 57 August 16 – Francisco Javier Alegre, Mexican historian and translator (born 1729) September 16 – Andrea Spagni, Italian theologian (born 1716) October 13 – Robert Nugent, 1st Earl Nugent, Irish politician and poet (born 1709)
References
External links 1788 Books at Goodreads