1799 in literature
See also: 1798 in literature, other events of 1799, 1800 in literature, list of years in literature.
Events Charles Lamb becomes guardian of his sister, Mary Lamb, on the death of their father. New edition of Edward Young's Night Thoughts, illustrated by Thomas Stothard.
New books Arthur Mervyn - Charles Brockden Brown Edgar Huntly - Charles Brockden Brown Goetz of Berlichingen - translation by Walter Scott Ormond - Charles Brockden Brown The Pleasures of Hope - Thomas Campbell The Gipsy Countess - Elizabeth Gunning The East Indian - Mary Julia Young
New dramaWallensteins Tod - Friedrich von Schiller
Births May 20 - Honoré de Balzac May 23 - Thomas Hood May 26 - Aleksandr Pushkin November 29 - Amos Bronson Alcott December 30 - John Moultrie
Deaths February 19 - Jean-Charles de Borda May 18 - Pierre Beaumarchais
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