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Overview of the events of 1790 in literature
Overview of the events of 1790 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1790 .
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January 1 – James Wills , Irish poet (died 1868 )
January 10 – Anders Abraham Grafström , Swedish historian, priest and poet (died 1870 )[9]
January 29 – George Métivier , Guernsey poet writing in Guernésiais (died 1881 )
March 3 – John Austin , English legal philosopher (died 1859 )
March 10 – Jacques Arago , French traveller and writer (died 1855 )[10]
March 18 – Marquis de Custine , French aristocrat and travel writer (died 1857 )[11]
June 9 – Abel-François Villemain , French politician and writer (died 1870 )[12]
June 24 – Helena Ekblom , Swedish writer and preacher (died 1859 )
July 8 – Fitz-Greene Halleck , American poet (died 1867 )[13]
August 8 – Ferenc Kölcsey , Hungarian poet and critic (died 1838 )[14]
October 1 – Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna , English novelist (died 1846 )
October 21 – Alphonse de Lamartine , French poet (died 1869 )[15]
December 8 – Richard Carlile , English advocate of suffrage and press freedom (died 1843 )
December 25 – Anna Eliza Bray , English novelist and travel writer (died 1883 )
Unknown date — Mary Diana Dods (also as David Lyndsay and Walter Sholto Douglas), Scottish writer (died 1830 in literature )
February 19 – Thomas de Mahy, marquis de Favras , man of letters (born 1744 ; executed)
March 20 – Thomas Richards of Coychurch , cleric and lexicographer (born c.1710)[16]
April 3 – Ephraim Kuh , German poet, 58/9[17]
April 29 – Charles-Nicolas Cochin , French art critic (born 1715 )[18]
May 2 – Martin Madan , English writer and cleric (born 1726 )
May 6 – Jacques Antoine Hippolyte, Comte de Guibert , French military writer (born 1743 )
May 21 – Thomas Warton , English poet and literary historian (born 1798 )[19]
July 7 – François Hemsterhuis , Dutch philosopher (born 1721 )[20]
July 17 – Adam Smith , Scottish philosopher and political economist (born 1723 )[21]
July 25 – William Livingston , American political writer and politician (born 1723 )[22]
unknown date – Maria Vittoria Ottoboni , Italian stage actress, writer and salonist (b. 1721 )[23]
probable – Marc-Antoine Eidous , French encyclopedist (born c. 1724)[24]
References [ edit ]
^ Maike Oergel (19 December 2012). (Re-)Writing the Radical: Enlightenment, Revolution and Cultural Transfer in 1790s Germany, Britain and France . Walter de Gruyter. p. 239. ISBN 978-3-11-029011-0 .
^ Evelyn Morchard Bishop; Oliver Stonor (1951). Blake's Hayley: The Life, Works, and Friendships of William Hayley . Gollancz. p. 120.
^ Patry, William F. "Copyright Law and Practice" . Retrieved 2014-01-01 .
^ Jon Mee (26 May 2016). Print, Publicity, and Popular Radicalism in the 1790s: The Laurel of Liberty . Cambridge University Press. p. 206. ISBN 978-1-107-13361-7 .
^ Miller, Ernest (2005-06-09). "June 9, 1790" . Corante . Archived from the original on 2014-01-02. Retrieved 2014-05-23 .
^ Webber, Caroline (2007-08-24). "Ann Radcliffe: A Sicilian Romance" . The Literary Encyclopedia .
^ Lamport, Francis John (1990). German Classical Drama: Theatre, Humanity and Nation, 1750-1870 . Cambridge University Press. p. 90 . ISBN 0-521-36270-9 .
^ Baigent, Elizabeth (2004). "Starke, Mariana (1762–1838)" . Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi :10.1093/ref:odnb/26314 . Retrieved 2014-05-23 . (subscription or UK public library membership required)
^ Gösta Lundström. "Anders A Grafström" (in Swedish). Svenskt biografiskt lexikon. Retrieved January 1, 2019 .
^ Pietsch, Theodore (1997). Collection building in ichthyology and herpetology . Lawrence, Kan: American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists. p. 56. ISBN 9780935868913 .
^ France, Peter (2000). L'invitation au voyage : studies in honour of Peter France . Oxford: Voltaire Foundation. p. 251. ISBN 9780729407304 .
^ John Clark Ridpath (1900). The Standard American Encyclopedia of Arts, Sciences, History, Biography, Geography, Statistics, and General Knowledge . Standard American Publishing Company. p. 2620.
^ Leary, Lewis (1980). American Literature To 1900 . London: Macmillan Education, Limited. p. 145. ISBN 9781349164189 .
^ "Ferenc Kolcsey" . Encyclopedia Britannica . Retrieved 20 March 2018 .
^ Claeys, Gregory (2005). Encyclopedia of nineteenth-century thought . London New York: Routledge. p. 266. ISBN 9780415244190 .
^ "Richards, Thomas (1710?-1790)" . Dictionary of National Biography . London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
^ Franck (1883), "Kuh, Ephraim ", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 17, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 317–318
^ The English cyclopædia: A new dictionary of universal knowledge . Bradbury & Evans. 1858. p. 299.
^ The Aldine Magazine of Biography, Bibliography, Criticism and the Arts . Simpkin, Marshall & Company. 1839. p. 265.
^ Heinz Moenkemeyer (1975). François Hemsterhuis . Twayne Publishers. p. 8 . ISBN 978-0-8057-2419-6 .
^ "Adam Smith (1723–1790)" . BBC . Retrieved 20 March 2018 .
^ Theodore Sedgwick (March 2009). A Memoir of the Life of William Livingston . Applewood Books. p. 416. ISBN 978-1-4290-1699-5 .
^ E. Verga, Storia della vita milanese, Milano 1931
^ Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century . Institut et musée Voltaire. 1984. p. 491.