1789 In Literature

Events

• Friedrich Schiller is appointed professor of history and philosophy at Jena.
• W. H. Brown's Power of Sympathy becomes the first American novel.

New books

• Arundel (novel) - Richard Cumberland
• The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne - Ann Radcliffe
• Earl Strongbow - James White
• The Power of Sympathy - W. H. Brown
• Songs of Innocence - William Blake
• Sonnets - William Lisle Bowles
• The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African - Olaudah Equiano

Births

• January 11 - John Payne Collier
• November 15 - James Scholefield
• December 28 Catharine Sedgwick, American writer (d. 1867)

Deaths

• Baron d'Holbach

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