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1788 In Literature
Events
*Ann Ward marries William Radcliffe, gaining the surname under which she will become known as a writer of Gothic novels.
*Joseph Johnson and Thomas Christie found the ''Analytical Review''.
New books
*Charlotte Turner Smith - ''Emmeline; or The Orphan of the Castle''
*Mary Wollstonecraft - ''Mary: A Fiction''
New drama
*Hannah Cowley - ''The Fate of Sparta''
*Elizabeth Inchbald - ''Animal Magnetism''
*Frances Brooke - ''Marian''
New poetry
Non-fiction
*Anthony Benezet - ''Some Historical Account of Guinea''
*Edward Gibbon - Volumes IV, V, and VI of ''The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire''
*George Hepplewhite (attr.) - ''Cabinet Maker and Upholsterers Guide''
*Immanuel Kant - ''Critique of Practical Reason (Kritik der praktischen Vernunft)''
*Richard Porson - ''Letters to Archdeacon Travis''
Births
*January 22 - George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, English poet (+ 1824)
*September 22 - Theodore Edward Hook, English author
*December 6 - Richard Harris Barham, author of ''The Ingoldsby Legends''
Deaths
*May 17 - Dorothea Biehl, dramatist and translator (born 1731)
*July 21 - Gaetano Filangieri, philosopher (b. 1752)
*August 16 - Francisco Javier Alegre, historian and translator (b. 1729)
*September 16 - Andrea Spagni, theologian (b. 1716)
*October 13 - Robert Nugent, 1st Earl Nugent, Irish politician and poet (b. 1702)
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