1799 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1799.

Events

Dove Cottage

• Premieres of the second and third parts of Friedrich Schiller's dramatic trilogy Wallenstein at the Weimarer Hoftheater directed by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe:
  • January 30 – Die Piccolomini.
  • April 20 – Wallensteins Tod ("Wallenstein's Death") as Wallenstein.
• April 13 – The father of Charles and Mary Lamb dies; Charles becomes guardian of his sister.^[1]
• December 20 – William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy first take up residence at Dove Cottage, Grasmere. William completes the first version of The Prelude this year.
• New edition of Edward Young's Night Thoughts, illustrated by Thomas Stothard.
• The Monthly Magazine and American Review starts publication in the United States, edited by Charles Brockden Brown.^[2]

New books

Fiction

• Anonymous – Village Orphan
• Charles Brockden Brown
  • Arthur Mervyn
  • Edgar Huntly
  • Ormond
• Thomas Campbell – The Pleasures of Hope
• Elizabeth Gunning – The Gipsey Countess
• Mary Hays – The Victim of Prejudice
• Friedrich Hölderlin – Hyperion, vol. 2
• William Henry Ireland – The Abbess
• Jane West – A Tale of the Times
• Mary Julia Young – The East Indian

Children

• François Guillaume Ducray-Duminil – Les Cinquante Francs de Jeannette (Jeanette's Fifty Francs)
• Edward Augustus Kendall
  • The Crested Wren. A Tale
  • The Canary Bird. A moral fiction interspersed with poetry
• Dorothy Kilner (as M. Pelham) – Rational Brutes, or Talking Animals

Drama

• Friedrich von Schiller – Wallensteins Tod

Poetry

Non-fiction

• Hannah More – Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education

Births

• February 4 – Thomas Kibble Hervey, Scottish-born poet and critic (died 1859)
• March – Dorothea Tieck, German translator (died 1841)
• March 12 – Mary Howitt, English writer, poet and translator (died 1888)
• March 13 – Maria Dorothea Dunckel, Swedish poet, translator and dramatist (died 1878)
• April 17 – Eliza Acton, English poet and cookery writer (died 1859)
• May 20 – Honoré de Balzac, French novelist (died 1850)
• May 23 – Thomas Hood, English poet (died 1845)
• May 26 – Aleksandr Pushkin, Russian dramatist and poet (died 1837)
• October 9 – Louisa Stuart Costello Irish writer on travel and history (died 1870)
• November 29 – Amos Bronson Alcott, American writer, philosopher, and reformer (died 1888)
• December 30 – John Moultrie, English poet and hymnist (died 1874)

Deaths

• February 19 – Jean-Charles de Borda, French engineer and memoirist (born 1733)
• February 24 – Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, German satirist (born 1742)
• April 24 – William Seward, English man of letters (born 1747)
• May 18 – Pierre Beaumarchais, French dramatist (born 1732)
• August 30 – Eleonora Fonseca Pimentel, Italian poet and revolutionary (executed, born 1751)

In literature

• Honoré de Balzac – Les Chouans (1829)

References

1. Courtney, Winifred A. (1982). Young Charles Lamb, 1775-1802. London: Macmillan. p. 240. ISBN 0-333-31534-0. Retrieved July 8, 2012.
2. Burt, Daniel S., ed. (2004). The Chronology of American Literature: America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 978-0-618-16821-7.