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1794 in literature

1794 in literature

See also: 1793 in literature, other events of 1794, 1795 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

Robert Southey's first collection of poetry is published.

Thomas Holcroft is indicted for treason as a member of the Society for Constitutional Information, but is released without charge.

Ludwig Tieck graduates and begins his literary career.

New books

Caleb Williams - William Godwin
Memoirs of my own Life - Edward Gibbon
The Age of Reason - Thomas Paine
The Baviad - William Gifford
The Jew (comedy) - Richard Cumberland
The Mysteries of Udolpho -Ann Radcliffe
The Pursuits of Literature - Thomas James Mathias
The Travels of Dean Mahomet - Dean Mahomed
View of the Evidences of Christianity - William Paley
Caton d'Utique (play)- François Juste Marie Raynouard
Births
May 17 - Anna Brownell Jameson
May 24 - William Whewell
Deaths
January 16 - Edward Gibbon
April 13 - Nicolas Chamfort
April 27 - Sir William Jones (philologist)
June 3 - Girolamo Tiraboschi
June 8 - Gottfried August Bürger
July 24 - Jean-Antoine Roucher and André Chénier, French poets (guillotined)
Awards

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