1792 in literature explained
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1792.
Events
unknown date – Henry Walton Smith and his wife Anna set up a newsagent's business in London that will become the bookselling chain WHSmith.[2]
New books
Fiction
Children
Drama
Poetry
See main article: article and 1792 in poetry.
Non-fiction
Births
- February 10 – Frederick Marryat (Captain Marryat), English novelist and naval officer (died 1848)[9]
- April 5 – John Lavicount Anderdon, English writer (died 1874)
- April 25 – John Keble, English poet (died 1866)[10]
- June 21 – Ferdinand Christian Baur, German theologian (died 1860)
- July 2 – Thomas Phillipps, English book collector (died 1872)
- August 4 – Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet and radical (died 1822)[11]
- October 17 – Sir John Bowring, English political economist and miscellanist (died 1872)
- October 20 – John Pascoe Fawkner, pioneer, newspaper publisher in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (died 1869)[12]
- October 28 – Anne Knight (Anne Waspe), English children's writer and educationist (died 1860)
- November 26 – Sarah Grimké, American abolitionist and suffragist (died 1873)[13]
- November 28 – Victor Cousin, French philosopher (died 1867)[14]
- December 18 – William Howitt, English historical writer and poet (died 1879)
Deaths
Notes and References
- Book: John C. Greene. Theatre in Dublin, 1745–1820: A Calendar of Performances. 16 November 2011. Lexington Books. 978-1-61146-119-0. 4499.
- Web site: Our Company: History 1792–1900 . W H Smith PLC . 2008 . 2010-07-13 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090627135545/http://www.whsmithplc.co.uk/WHSPLC-OC-History1.htm. 27 June 2009 .
- Book: Claude Reherd Flory. Economic Criticism in American Fiction, 1792-1900 .... 1936. University of Pennsylvania. 35.
- Web site: Chrisy. Dennis. Vancenza; or The Dangers of Credulity. 2010-01-25. Perditasroom's Blog. 2023-07-02.
- Book: Library of Congress. American Library Association. The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints: A Cumulative Author List Representing Library of Congress Printed Cards and Titles Reported by Other American Libraries. 1968. Mansell. 978-0-7201-0003-7. 586.
- Book: Cecilia Feilla. The Sentimental Theater of the French Revolution. 3 March 2016. Routledge. 978-1-317-01630-4. 34.
- Book: Adler . The Jewish Quarterly Review . Schechter . Solomon . Neuman . Abraham Aaron . Zeitlin . Solomon . Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning . 1961 . 77 . Cyrus Adler . Solomon Schechter . Abraham A. Neuman . Solomon Zeitlin.
- Web site: Mary Wollstonecraft Biography, Works, & Facts . Encyclopedia Britannica . 10 August 2019 . en.
- Book: Lois H. Fisher. A Literary Gazetteer of England. 1980. McGraw-Hill. 978-0-07-021098-1. 418.
- Book: George Saintsbury. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895). 13 August 2020. BoD – Books on Demand. 978-3-7524-2531-4. 269.
- Book: William Michael Rossetti. Memoir of Percy Bysshe Shelley: (with New Preface). 1886. John Slark. 5.
- Book: https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/fawkner-john-pascoe-2037. John Pascoe Fawkner. Hugh Anderson. Fawkner, John Pascoe (1792–1869). National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. April 4, 2021.
- Book: The New England Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly. 1885. New England Magazine Company. 184.
- Book: The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine. 1867. Houlston and Stonemen. 163.
- Book: Lias. 1987. Holland University Press. 268.
- Book: Don Michael Randel. The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music. 1996. Harvard University Press. 978-0-674-37299-3. 262.
- Book: John Rhodehamel. The American Revolution: Writings from the War of Independence. 2001. Library of America. 978-1-883011-91-8. 816.
- Book: Konzett, Matthias . Encyclopedia of German Literature . 2015 . Routledge . 978-1-135-94129-1 . 1357 . 2019-03-24.
- Book: Trinquet, Charlotte . Cazotte, Jacques . The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Folktales and Fairy Tales: A–F . Haase, Donald . Greenwood Publishing . 0-313-33441-2 . 170–171.
- Book: Samia I. Spencer. Writers of the French Enlightenment. 2005. Thomson Gale. 978-0-7876-8132-6. 108.