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1799 in literature
Overview of the events of 1799 in literature
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- Premières of the second and third parts of Friedrich Schiller's dramatic trilogy Wallenstein are performed at the Weimarer Hoftheater under Johann Wolfgang von Goethe:
- January 30 – Die Piccolomini.
- April 20 – Wallensteins Tod (Wallenstein's Death) as Wallenstein.
- April 13 – The father of Charles and Mary Lamb dies; Charles becomes his sister's guardian.[1]
- May 8 – The Religious Tract Society is established as an evangelical publisher in Paternoster Row, London; it continues as The Lutterworth Press into the 21st century.[2]
- December 20 – William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy first take up residence at Dove Cottage, Grasmere. William completes the first version of The Prelude during the year.
- unknown dates
- A new edition of Edward Young's Night Thoughts is illustrated by Thomas Stothard.[3]
- The Monthly Magazine and American Review starts publication in the United States, edited by Charles Brockden Brown.[4]
Fiction
- Anonymous – Village Orphan
- Charles Brockden Brown
- Thomas Campbell – The Pleasures of Hope
- Elizabeth Gunning – The Gipsey Countess
- Mary Hays – The Victim of Prejudice
- Friedrich Hölderlin – Hyperion, vol. 2
- William Henry Ireland – The Abbess
- Jane West – A Tale of the Times
- Mary Julia Young – The East Indian
Children
- François Guillaume Ducray-Duminil – Les Cinquante Francs de Jeannette (Jeanette's Fifty Francs)
- Edward Augustus Kendall
- The Crested Wren. A Tale
- The Canary Bird. A moral fiction interspersed with poetry
- Dorothy Kilner (as M. Pelham) – Rational Brutes, or Talking Animals
Drama
- Thomas John Dibdin
- William Dunlap – The Italian Father[6]
- Joseph George Holman – The Votary of Wealth
- Elizabeth Inchbald – The Wise Man of the East
- Kamesuke – Picture Book of the Taiko (kabuki)[7]
- Matthew Lewis – The East Indian
- Edward Morris – The Secret
- Frederick Reynolds – Management
- Friedrich von Schiller – Wallensteins Tod
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan – Pizarro
- Oscar Wegelin – The Natural Daughter[8]
- Thomas Sedgwick Whalley – The Castle of Montval
Poetry
Main article: 1799 in poetry
Non-fiction
- Hannah Adams – A Summary History of New-England
- Hannah More – Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education
- Lady Charlotte Murray – The British Garden
- Philip Yorke – The Royal Tribes of Wales
- January 31 – Rodolphe Töpffer, Swiss teacher, author, and artist (died 1846)[9]
- February 4
- Almeida Garrett, Portuguese writer (died 1854)[10]
- Thomas Kibble Hervey, Scottish-born poet and critic (died 1859)
- March – Dorothea Tieck, German translator (died 1841)
- March 12 – Mary Howitt, English writer, poet and translator (died 1888)
- March 13 – Maria Dorothea Dunckel, Swedish poet, translator and dramatist (died 1878)
- March 20 – Karl August Nicander, Swedish poet (died 1839)[11]
- April 17 – Eliza Acton, English poet and cookery writer (died 1859)[12]
- May 13 – Catherine Gore, English author (died 1861)
- May 20 – Honoré de Balzac, French novelist (died 1850)[13]
- May 23 – Thomas Hood, English poet (died 1845)[14]
- June 6 – Aleksandr Pushkin, Russian dramatist and poet (died 1837)
- October 9 – Louisa Stuart Costello Irish writer on travel and history (died 1870)
- November 29 – Amos Bronson Alcott, American writer, philosopher, and reformer (died 1888)[15]
- December 30 – John Moultrie, English poet and hymnist (died 1874)
- unknown date – Rallou Karatza, Greek Wallachian translator and theatrical promoter (died 1870)
- February 19 – Jean-Charles de Borda, French engineer and memoirist (born 1733)
- February 24 – Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, German satirist (born 1742)[16]
- April 24 – William Seward, English man of letters (born 1747)
- May 18 – Pierre Beaumarchais, French dramatist (born 1732)[17]
- August 30 – Eleonora Fonseca Pimentel, Italian poet and revolutionary (executed, born 1751)[18]
- December 31 – Jean-François Marmontel, French historian, writer (born 1723)[19]
- Courtney, Winifred A. (1982). Young Charles Lamb, 1775-1802. London: Macmillan. p. 240. ISBN 0-333-31534-0. Retrieved July 8, 2012.
- Religious Tract Society (Great Britain); William Jones (1850). The Jubilee Memorial of the Religious Tract Society: Containing a Record of its Origin, Proceedings, and Results, A.D. 1799 to A.D. 1849. The Society. p. 14.
- Antonio Feliciano De Castilho; Shelley M. Bennett (1988). Thomas Stothard: The Mechanisms of Art Patronage in England Circa 1800. University of Missouri Press. p. 75.
- Burt, Daniel S., ed. (2004). The Chronology of American Literature: America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 978-0-618-16821-7.
- John C. Greene (2011). Theatre in Dublin, 1745-1820: A Calendar of Performances. Lexington Books. p. 4506. ISBN 978-1-61146-118-3.
- Lewis Leary (1 November 1980). American Literature to 1900. Macmillan International Higher Education. p. 4. ISBN 978-1-349-16418-9.
- James R. Brandon; Samuel L. Leiter; University of Hawaii Press (2002). Kabuki Plays on Stage: Villainy and vengeance, 1773-1799. University of Hawai'i Press. p. 2. ISBN 978-0-8248-2413-6.
- Oscar Wegelin (1968). Early American plays, 1714-1830. Ardent Media. p. 37.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Coolidge, William Augustus Brevoort (1911). "Töpffer, Rodolphe". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 27 (11th ed.). pp. 49–50.- Prestage, Edgar (1911). "Garrett, João Baptista da Silva Leitão de Almeida" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 11 (11th ed.). pp. 474–475.
- An encyclopedia of British women writers (Rev. and expanded ed.). New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press. 1998. p. 1. ISBN 0813525438.
- Little, Iain (1984). Honoré de Balzac, Le père Goriot. Harlow: Longman. p. 5. ISBN 9780582781863.
- "Thomas Hood | British poet". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 5 May 2020.
- Matteson, John (2007). Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. p. 13. ISBN 978-0-393-33359-6.
- Lichtenberg, Georg (2012). Georg Christoph Lichtenberg : philosophical writings, selected from the Waste books. Albany: State University of New York Press. p. 2. ISBN 9781438441986.
- Louis de Loménie (1857). Beaumarchais and His Times: Sketches of French Society in the Eighteenth Century from Unpublished Documents. Harper. p. 452.
- Davis, John (2006). Naples and Napoleon: southern Italy and the European revolutions (1780-1860. Oxford New York: Oxford University Press. p. 121. ISBN 9780191564529.
- Mueller von Asow; Erich Hermann; Mueller von Asow (1962). Collected Correspondence and Papers. Barrie and Rockliff. p. 67.
