1799 In Literature

Events

• Charles Lamb becomes guardian of his sister, Mary Lamb, on the death of their father.
• New edition of Edward Young's Night Thoughts, illustrated by Thomas Stothard.

New books

• Arthur Mervyn - Charles Brockden Brown
• Edgar Huntly - Charles Brockden Brown
• Goetz of Berlichingen - translation by Walter Scott
• Ormond - Charles Brockden Brown
• The Pleasures of Hope - Thomas Campbell
• The Gipsy Countess - Elizabeth Gunning
• The East Indian - Mary Julia Young

New drama

• Wallensteins Tod - Friedrich von Schiller

Births

• May 20 - Honor de Balzac
• May 23 - Thomas Hood
• May 26 - Aleksandr Pushkin
• November 29 - Amos Bronson Alcott
• December 30 - John Moultrie

Deaths

• February 19 - Jean-Charles de Borda
• May 18 - Pierre Beaumarchais

Awards

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