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1791 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1791.

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Events

  • May 16 – James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson is published in 2 volumes in London on the 28th anniversary of their first meeting.
  • Chinese writer and publisher Gao E and his partner Cheng Weiyan claim to have discovered Cao Xueqin's lost novel Dream of the Red Chamber.
  • Scottish poet and exciseman Robert Burns moves to Dumfries.
  • English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge begins his course at Jesus College, Cambridge, marking his transfer from Christ's Hospital school by composition of the poem "On Quitting School".

    • Fiction

  • Cao Xueqin (曹雪芹) and others – Dream of the Red Chamber (紅樓夢, first printed edition)
  • Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvrai – Émilie de Varmont
  • Elizabeth Inchbald – A Simple Story
  • Ann Radcliffe – The Romance of the Forest
  • Susanna Rowson – Charlotte, a Tale of Truth
  • Marquis de Sade – Justine ou Les Malheurs de la vertu
  • Charlotte Turner Smith – Celestina

    • Drama

  • Antoine-Vincent Arnault – Marius à Minturne
  • John O'Keeffe – Wild Oats

    • Poetry

  • Robert Burns – "Tam o' Shanter"

    • Non-fiction

  • James Boswell – Life of Samuel Johnson
  • Olympe de Gouges – Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen
  • Isaac D'Israeli – Curiosities of Literature (Volume 1)
  • William Gilpin – Remarks on Forest Scenery and Other Woodland Views (3 volumes)
  • Thomas Paine – Rights of Man (Part 1)
  • Petrarch's View of Life (Latin dialogues De remediis utriusque fortunae translated by Susannah Dobson)

    • Births

  • January 15 – Franz Grillparzer, Austrian dramatist (died 1872)
  • March 15 – Charles Knight, English publisher and author (died 1873)
  • July 5 – Samuel Bailey, English philosopher and author (died 1870)
  • August 17 – Richard Lalor Sheil, Irish politician, author and orator (died 1851)
  • September 21 – István Széchenyi, Hungarian politician, writer and diarist (died 1860)
  • October 26 – Charles Sprague, American poet and banker (died 1875)
  • December 24 – Eugène Scribe, French dramatist (died 1861)

    • Deaths

  • January 11 – William Williams Pantycelyn, Welsh hymnist and poet (born 1717)
  • March 2 – John Wesley, English preacher and religious writer (born 1703)
  • April 2 – Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau, French revolutionary and writer (born 1749)
  • April 19 – Richard Price, Welsh moral philosopher and preacher (born 1723)
  • June 12 – Francis Grose, English antiquary and lexicographer (born c. 1730)
  • June 30 – Jean-Baptiste Descamps, French writer and painter (born 1714)
  • July 2 – Søren Abildgaard, Danish naturalist and writer (born 1718)
  • November 22 – Johann Silberschlag, German theologian (born 1721)

    • In literature

  • Peter Shaffer's play Amadeus (1979) is based on circumstances surrounding the Death of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

    • References

    1791 in literature Wikipedia
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