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[edit] Events
- The Académie française publishes a new edition of its dictionary.
[edit] New books
- Charles Brockden Brown
- Emily Clark - Ianthé, or the Flower of Caernarvon
- William Godwin - Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
- Regina Maria Roche - Clermont: a Tale
- Mary Wollstonecraft - Posthumous Works (edited by William Godwin); includes Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman)
[edit] New drama
[edit] New poetry
Main article: 1798 in poetry
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth - Lyrical Ballads (published anonymously)
[edit] Non-fiction
- Hannah Webster Foster - The Boarding School; or, Lessons of a Preceptress to Her Pupils
- Thomas Malthus - An Essay on the Principle of Population
[edit] Births
- January 5 - David Macbeth Moir, poet and humorist
- February 17 - Auguste Comte
- March 30 - Luise Hensel
- June 29 - Count Giacomo Leopardi, Italian poet
[edit] Deaths
- June 4 - Giacomo Casanova, librarian
- June 20 - Jeremy Belknap, historian of New Hampshire
- December 16 - Thomas Pennant, traveller
