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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1799.

Events

Dove Cottage

• 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]

New books

Fiction

• Anonymous – Village Orphan
• Charles Brockden Brown
  • Arthur Mervyn
  • Edgar Huntly
  • Ormond
• 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
  • The Birth Day
  • Five Thousand a Year ^[5]
• 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

Births

• 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)

Deaths

• 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]

References

1. Courtney, Winifred A. (1982). Young Charles Lamb, 1775-1802. London: Macmillan. p. 240. ISBN   0-333-31534-0 . Retrieved July 8, 2012.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. John C. Greene (2011). Theatre in Dublin, 1745-1820: A Calendar of Performances. Lexington Books. p. 4506. ISBN   978-1-61146-118-3.
6. Lewis Leary (1 November 1980). American Literature to 1900. Macmillan International Higher Education. p. 4. ISBN   978-1-349-16418-9.
7. 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.
8. Oscar Wegelin (1968). Early American plays, 1714-1830. Ardent Media. p. 37.
9.  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.
10. Prestage, Edgar (1911). "Garrett, João Baptista da Silva Leitão de Almeida"  . Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. 11 (11th ed.). pp. 474–475.
11. Karl August Nicander – via Project Runeberg.
12. An encyclopedia of British women writers (Rev. and expanded ed.). New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press. 1998. p. 1. ISBN   0813525438.
13. Little, Iain (1984). Honoré de Balzac, Le père Goriot. Harlow: Longman. p. 5. ISBN   9780582781863.
14. "Thomas Hood | British poet". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 5 May 2020.
15. 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.
16. Lichtenberg, Georg (2012). Georg Christoph Lichtenberg : philosophical writings, selected from the Waste books. Albany: State University of New York Press. p. 2. ISBN   9781438441986.
17. Louis de Loménie (1857). Beaumarchais and His Times: Sketches of French Society in the Eighteenth Century from Unpublished Documents. Harper. p. 452.
18. Davis, John (2006). Naples and Napoleon: southern Italy and the European revolutions (1780-1860. Oxford New York: Oxford University Press. p. 121. ISBN   9780191564529.
19. Mueller von Asow; Erich Hermann; Mueller von Asow (1962). Collected Correspondence and Papers. Barrie and Rockliff. p. 67.