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1780 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1780.

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Events

  • September/October – In the British general election, 1780, Richard Brinsley Sheridan is elected as a member of Parliament.
  • Karl von Marinelli becomes head of the Schultz theatre company ("Schultzsche Gesellschaft") of Baden.
  • Det Dramatiske Selskab in Christiania, an amateur theatre troupe, is formed and gives the first regular theatre performances in Norway.
  • A legal deposit law entitles the Załuski Library in Warsaw to a copy of every book published in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.

    • Fiction

  • Elizabeth Blower – The Parsonage House
  • Herbert Croft – Love and Madness
  • Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire – The Sylph
  • Thomas Holcroft – Alwyn
  • Sophia Lee – The Chapter of Accidents
  • Margaret Minifie – The Count de Poland
  • Samuel Jackson Pratt – Emma Corbett, or, The miseries of civil war

    • Children

  • Mrs. Trimmer – An Easy Introduction to the Knowledge of Nature, and Reading the Holy Scriptures. Adapted to the Capacities of Children

    • Drama

  • Hannah Cowley – The Belle's Stratagem
  • Isaac Reed – A Select Collection of Old Plays (from Robert Dodsley's press)

    • Poetry

  • Hannah Cowley – The Maid of Aragon
  • George Crabbe – The Candidate
  • Herbert Croft – The Abbey of Kilkhampton; or, Monumental Records for the Year 1980 (satire)
  • Susannah Harrison – Songs in the Night
  • William Hayley – An Essay on History
  • Anna Seward – Elegy on Captain Cook
  • Christoph Martin Wieland – Oberon

    • Non-fiction

  • William Beckford – Biographical Memoirs of Extraordinary Painters
  • Jacob Bryant – An Address to Dr. Priestley
  • Edmund Burke – Speech on Oeconomical Reformation
  • Giacomo Casanova – Opuscoli miscellanei (containing Il duello and Lettere della nobil donna Silvia Belegno alla nobil donzella Laura Gussoni)
  • William Combe – Letters of the Late Lord Lyttelton (forgeries)
  • Martin Madan – Thelyphthora (in favor of polygamy)
  • Johannes von Müller – Geschichten der Schweizer
  • John Nichols – A Select Collection of Poems
  • Richard Price – An Essay on the Population of England
  • Joseph Priestley – Letters to a Philosophical Unbeliever
  • William Shakespeare – Supplement to the Edition of Shakespeare's Plays Published in 1778 by Samuel Johnson and George Stevens (by Edmund Malone)
  • John Wesley – Reflections on the Rise and Progress of the American Rebellion
  • Arthur Young – A Tour in Ireland

    • Births

  • March 10 – Frances Trollope, English novelist (died 1863)
  • June 1 – Carl von Clausewitz, German soldier and military historian and theorist (died 1831)
  • June 3 – William Hone, English satirist (died 1842)
  • August 14 – George Croly, Irish poet, novelist and historian (died 1860)
  • December 20 – John Wilson Croker, Irish statesman and author (died 1857)
  • December 26 – Mary Somerville, Scottish science writer and polymath (died 1872)
  • Unknown dates
  • Anna Maria Porter, English poet and novelist (died 1832)
  • William Cardell, American grammarian and story writer for boys (died 1828)
  • Approximate year of birth – Maria Elizabeth Budden, English novelist and writer of didactic children's books (died 1832)

    • Deaths

  • January 31 – Jonathan Carver, American explorer and writer (born 1710)
  • February 14 – William Blackstone, English jurist and legal author (born 1723)
  • February 17 – Andreas Felix von Oefele, German historian and librarian (born 1706)
  • April 29 – Claude Joseph Dorat, "Le Chevalier Dorat", French poet and novelist (born 1734)
  • July 14 – Charles Batteux, French philosopher (born 1713)
  • September 4 – Sir John Fielding, English social reformer and half-brother of Henry Fielding (born 1721)
  • September 8 – Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, French novelist (born 1711)
  • September 23 – Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand, French salon hostess (born 1697)
  • Unknown date – Nicolas Fernández de Moratín, Spanish literary reformer (born 1737)

    • In literature

  • Charles Dickens' novel Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty (1841) is set around the time of the Gordon Riots.

    • References

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