Information about 1789 In Literature

See also: 1787 in literature, other events of 1788, 1789 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

• Ann Ward marries William Radcliffe, gaining the surname under which she will become known as a writer of Gothic novels.

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16th century in literature – 1590s

15th century in literature

14th century in literature – Canterbury Tales – Geoffrey Chaucer

13th century in literature – Parzival – Wolfram von Eschenbach

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Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (Marbach am Neckar, November 10, 1759 – May 9, 1805 in Weimar) was a German poet, philosopher, historian, and dramatist. During the last several years of his life (1788–1805), Schiller struck a productive, if complicated,
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Jena
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Elizabeth Bonhôte, née Mapes (1744-1818) was an English novelist and essayist.

Works

• Hortensia, or, The Distressed Wife (1769, published anonymously)
• The Rambles of Mr Frankly, Published by his Sister (1772)

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William Hill Brown (November 1765, Boston - 2 September 1793, Murfreesboro, North Carolina) was an American novelist, the author of what is usually considered the first American novel, The Power of Sympathy (1789).

William Hill Brown was born in Boston in 1765.
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The Power of Sympathy (1789) is a novel written by William Hill Brown, usually considered to be the first American novel.

The story of The Power of Sympathy

In January 1789, Isaiah Thomas and Company published Brown’s The Power of Sympathy
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Richard Cumberland

Born: January 19 1732(1732--)
Master's lodge, Trinity College, Cambridge, England
Died: May 7 1811 (aged 79)
London, England
Occupation: Dramatist
Nationality: English
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Ann Radcliffe
Born: July 9, 1764
Holborn
Died: February 7, 1823

Occupation: Novelist
Nationality: English
Genres: gothic novel

This article is about the 19th-century author.

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James White (d. 1799) was an English writer and translator.

Works

• Hints of a Specific Plan for the Abolition of the Slave Trade (1788)
• Earl Strongbow: or the History of Richard de Clare and the Beautiful Geralda (1789)

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Elizabeth Inchbald

Born: 1753
Standingfield, Suffolk, England, UK
Died: 1821
Kensington, England, UK
Occupation: Novelist, Dramatist, Critic, Actress
Nationality: British
Writing period: 1784-1810
Debut works:
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Ann Yearsley née Cromartie (c. 1753 - 1806) was an English poet and writer.

Born in Bristol to John and Anne Cromartie (described as a milkwoman), Ann married John Yearsley, a yeoman, in 1774.
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William Blake

William Blake in an 1807 portrait by Thomas Phillips.
Born: November 28, 1757
London, England
Died: August 12, 1827
London, England
Occupation: Poet, Painter, Printmaker William Blake
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Songs of Innocence and of Experience: Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul are two books of poetry by the English poet and painter, William Blake. Although Songs of Innocence was first published by itself in 1789, it is believed that
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William Lisle Bowles (September 24, 1762 - April 7, 1850) was an English poet and critic.

He was born at King's Sutton, Northamptonshire, where his father was vicar. At the age of fourteen he entered Winchester College, the headmaster at the time being Dr Joseph Warton.
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sonnet" derives from the Provençal word "sonet" and the Italian word "sonetto," both meaning "little song." By the thirteenth century, it had come to signify a poem of fourteen lines that follows a strict rhyme scheme and logical structure.
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Olaudah Equiano (c. 1745 – 31 March 1797), also known as Gustavus Vassa, was one of the most prominent people of African heritage involved in the British debate for the abolition of the slave trade.
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January 11 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.

Events

• 314 - Pope Miltiades ends his reign as the Pope of Roman Catholicism by dying in power.

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John Payne Collier (January 11, 1789 – September 17, 1883), English Shakespearian critic, was born in London.

His father, John Dyer Collier (1762–1825), was a successful journalist, and his connection with the press obtained for his son a position on the
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November 15 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.

Events

• 655 - Battle of Winwaed: Penda of Mercia defeated by Oswiu of Northumbria.

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James Scholefield (November 15, 1789 - April 4, 1853), English classical scholar, was born at Henley-on-Thames.

He was educated at Christ's Hospital and Trinity College, Cambridge, and was in 1825 appointed professor of Greek in the university and canon of Ely (1849).
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December 28 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.

Events

• 1065 - Westminster Abbey is consecrated.

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Catharine Maria Sedgwick (December 28, 1789 – July 31, 1867), was an American novelist of what is now referred to as domestic fiction.

Born in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, she was the daughter of a prosperous lawyer and successful politician, Theodore Sedgwick, who
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Paul-Henri Thiry, baron d'Holbach (1723 – 1789) was a German-French author, philosopher and encyclopedist. He was born Paul Heinrich Dietrich in Edesheim, Germany but lived and worked mainly in Paris.
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