1778 in literature
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[edit] Events
- Novelist Sarah Scott gives up writing on receipt of her father's legacy.
[edit] New books
- Fanny Burney - Evelina
- Pierre-Louis Ginguené - Satire des Satires
- Clara Reeve - The Old English Baron
[edit] New drama
- Henry Brooke - collected plays
- Elizabeth Craven - The Sleep Walker
- Richard Cumberland
- Charles Dibdin - Poor Vulcan
- Samuel Foote
- The Devil upon Two Sticks
- The Nabob
- The Taylors
- Jean-François de La Harpe - Les Barmecides
- John Home - Alfred
- Hannah More - Percy
[edit] New poetry
Main article: 1796 in poetry
- John Codrington Bampfylde - Sixteen Sonnets
- Thomas Chatterton - Miscellanies
- William Combe - The Auction
- George Ellis as "Sir Gregory Gander" - Poetical Tales
- William Hayley - A Poetical Epistle to an Eminent Painter
- John Scott - Moral Eclogues
- John Wolcot as "Peter Pindar" - A Poetical, Supplicating, Modest and Affecting Epistle to those Literary Colossuses the Reviewers
[edit] Non-fiction
- Anna Barbauld - Lessons for Children
- Edmund Burke - Two Letters on the Trade of Ireland
- Vicesimus Knox - Essays Moral and Literary
- Ann Murry - Mentoria
- Thomas Pennant - A Tour in Wales
- Gilbert Stuart - A View of Society in Europe
[edit] Births
- January 26 - Ugo Foscolo, Italian poet (died 1827)
- March 24 - Robert Fleming Gourlay, agriculturist and writer (died 1863)
- April 10 - William Hazlitt, essayist and literary critic (died 1830)
- September 8 - Clemens Brentano, novelist and poet (died 1842)
- November 1 - Mary Brunton, novelist (died 1818)
[edit] Deaths
- March 13 - Charles le Beau, historian (born 1701)
- May 30 - Voltaire, philosopher and satirist (born 1694)
- July 3 - Jean-Jacques Rousseau, philosopher (born 1712)
- July 5 - James Townley, dramatist (born 1714)
- October 6 - William Worthington, theologian (born 1703)
- November 11 - Anne Steele, poet and hymn-writer (born 1717)
