1788 in literature
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[edit] 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.
[edit] New books
- Charlotte Turner Smith - Emmeline; or The Orphan of the Castle
- Mary Wollstonecraft - Mary: A Fiction
[edit] New drama
- Hannah Cowley - The Fate of Sparta
- Elizabeth Inchbald - Animal Magnetism
- Frances Brooke - Marian
[edit] Non-fiction
- 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
[edit] 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
[edit] Deaths
- October 13 - Robert Nugent, 1st Earl Nugent, Irish politician and poet (b. 1702)
