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Overview of the events of 1785 in literature
Overview of the events of 1785 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1785.
- January 1
- February 2 – Sarah Siddons makes her London debut in her most famous rôle, Lady Macbeth, at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.[2]
- February – The English heiress Mary Bowes escapes from her husband, Andrew Robinson Stoney, and begins divorce proceedings.
- April 14 – After today's death of the English poet William Whitehead in London, Thomas Warton succeeds him as Poet Laureate of Great Britain, William Mason having refused the post.
- May 22 – Robert Burns' first child, Elizabeth ("Dear-bought Bess"), is born to his mother's servant, Elizabeth Paton.[3]
- June 23 – The Litvak rabbi and writer Aryeh Leib ben Asher Gunzberg dies at Metz in France after a book-case topples on him, according to tradition.[4]
- November 28 – The Marquis de Sade finishes writing The 120 Days of Sodom (Les 120 Journées de Sodome) while imprisoned in the Bastille; it will not be published until 1904.
- unknown date
New books[edit]
Fiction[edit]
Children[edit]
Non-fiction[edit]
- January 4 – Jakob Grimm, German philologist, jurist and mythologist (died 1863)
- January 31 – Magdalena Dobromila Rettigová, Czech cookery writer (died 1845)
- March 3 – Frances Mary Richardson Currer, English heiress and bibliophile (died 1861)
- March 7 – Alessandro Manzoni, Italian poet and novelist (died 1873)
- March 18 – He Changling (賀長齡), Chinese scholar and writer on governance (died 1848)
- March 21 – Henry Kirke White, English poet (died 1806)
- April 4 – Bettina von Arnim, German novelist (died 1859)
- April 7 – Lorenzo Hammarsköld, Swedish poet and author (died 1827)
- May 3 – Vicente López y Planes, Argentine politician and writer (died 1856)
- May 18 – John Wilson (Christopher North), Scottish writer (died 1854)
- August 15 – Thomas De Quincey, English essayist (died 1859)
- October 18 – Thomas Love Peacock, English novelist, poet and East India Company official (died 1866)
- October 30 – Hermann, Fürst von Pückler-Muskau – German travel and gardening writer (died 1871)
- January 19 – Jonathan Toup, English classicist, critic and cleric (born 1713)[7]
- April 14 – William Whitehead, English poet laureate (born 1715)
- May 4 – János Sajnovics, Hungarian linguist (born 1733)
- August 31 – Pietro Chiari, Italian playwright, novelist and librettist (born 1712)
- September 17 – Antoine Léonard Thomas, French poet and critic (born 1732)
- November 12 – Richard Burn, English legal writer (born 1709)
- November 25 – Richard Glover, English poet and politician (born 1712)
- December 6 – Kitty Clive, English actress and writer of farce (born 1711)
- December 18 – Joseph Allegranza, Milanese historian (born 1715)
- December 29 – Johan Herman Wessel, Norwegian-born Danish poet and satirist (born 1742)
- unknown date – Ali Haider Multani, Punjabi Sufi poet (born 1690)[8]
References[edit]
- ^ Steinberg, S. H. (2017). Five Hundred Years of Printing. Courier Dover Publications. p. 14. ISBN 9780486814452.
- ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Siddons, Sarah" . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
- ^ "Paton, Elizabeth". The Burns Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2014-01-28.
- ^ Eleff, Zev (Winter 2012). "The Wages of Criticism". Jewish Review of Books. 8. Retrieved 2013-03-06.
- ^ Walter M. Weiss (1997). Looking for Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: A Travel Companion Through Salzburg, Prague & Vienna. Brandstätter. p. 90. ISBN 978-3-85447-729-7.
- ^ Holbrook, Stewart H. (1940). Ethan Allen. New York: MacMillan. ISBN 0-395-24908-2. OCLC 975403.
- ^ John Burke (1838). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, Enjoying Territorial Possessions Or High Official Rank: But Univested with Heritable Honours. H. Colburn. p. 297.
- ^ Bakhshish Singh Nijjar (1968). Panjāb Under the Great Mughals, 1526-1707. Thacker. p. 173.
