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1790 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1790. Events *February – Xavier de Maistre begins writing '' Voyage autour de ma chambre'' (Voyage Around my Room, published 1794) while under arrest in Turin in the Kingdom of Sardinia, as the result of a duel. *May – Following the death of Thomas Warton, William Hayley refuses an offer to succeed him as Poet Laureate of Great Britain. Retired MP Henry James Pye is appointed in his place. * May 31 – United States President George Washington approves the Copyright Act of 1790. *June 1 – The Royal Literary Fund is founded in Britain by David Williams. * June 9 – John Barrie's ''Philadelphia Spelling Book Arranged Upon a Plan Entirely New'' becomes the first American book copyrighted. *''unknown date'' – William Lane establishes the Minerva Press in London, specializing in Gothic fiction. New books Fiction * Mary Pilkington – ''Delia'' * Ann Radcliffe – ''A Sicilian Romance'' *H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1789 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1789. Events *January 22 – William Hill Brown's anonymous sentimental epistolary novel '' The Power of Sympathy: or, The Triumph of Nature'', usually considered the first American novel, is published in Boston. *February 7 – Première of John Philip Kemble's production of Shakespeare's ''Coriolanus'' with himself in the title rôle and his sister Sarah Siddons as Volumnia, at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in London. *May 21 – Tomás António Gonzaga is arrested for complicity in the Inconfidência Mineira in Brazil. *May 26 – Friedrich Schiller gives his first lecture as professor of history and philosophy at Jena. *November 1 – Robert Burns informs friends that he has been appointed an exciseman in Scotland. *December – Première of Olympe de Gouges's abolitionist play ''Zamore et Mirza'' (written 1784; published 1788) as ''L'Esclavage des nègres'' ("Slavery of the negroes"); shut dow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Literary Fund
The Royal Literary Fund (RLF) is a benevolent fund that gives assistance to published British writers in financial difficulties. Founded in 1790, and granted a royal charter in 1818, the Fund has helped an extensive roll of authors through its long history, from the most famous to the most obscure, whose cases are judged to be deserving. It also operates a Fellowship scheme, placing established writers in universities to encourage writing skills, and to monitor standards of writing in the higher education world. History The Fund was founded in 1790 by Reverend David Williams, who was inspired to set up the Fund by the death in debtors' prison of a translator of Plato's dialogues, Floyer Sydenham. Ever since then, the charity has received bequests and donations, including royal patronage. In 1818 the Fund was granted a royal charter, and was permitted to add "Royal" to its title in 1845. The Royal Literary Fund has given assistance to many distinguished writers over its history, in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eudora (play)
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Torquato Tasso (play)
''Torquato Tasso'' is a play in verse by the German dramatist Johann Wolfgang von Goethe about the sixteenth-century Italian poet and courtier Torquato Tasso and his descent into madness. The composition of the play began in Weimar in 1780 but most of it was written between 1786 and 1788, while Goethe was in Italy Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical re .... He completed the play in 1790.Lamport (1990, 90). Notes References * Lamport, Francis John. 1990. ''German Classical Drama: Theatre, Humanity and Nation, 1750–1870''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. .Tasso External links English translation of ''Tasso'' Plays by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1790 plays Torquato Tasso Plays set in Italy Cultural depictions of poets Cultural depictions of Italian men P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theatre director, and critic. His works include plays, poetry, literature, and aesthetic criticism, as well as treatises on botany, anatomy, and colour. He is widely regarded as the greatest and most influential writer in the German language, his work having a profound and wide-ranging influence on Western literary, political, and philosophical thought from the late 18th century to the present day.. Goethe took up residence in Weimar in November 1775 following the success of his first novel, ''The Sorrows of Young Werther'' (1774). He was ennobled by the Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Karl August, in 1782. Goethe was an early participant in the ''Sturm und Drang'' literary movement. During his first ten years in Weimar, Goethe became a member of the Duke's privy council (1776–1785), sat on the war and highway commissions, oversaw the reopening of silver min ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Maria Williams
Helen Maria Williams (17 June 1759 – 15 December 1827) was a British novelist, poet, and translator of French-language works. A religious dissenter, she was a supporter of abolitionism and of the ideals of the French Revolution; she was imprisoned in Paris during the Reign of Terror, but nonetheless spent much of the rest of her life in France. A controversial figure in her own time, the young Williams was favourably portrayed in a 1787 poem by William Wordsworth. Early years and education She was born on 17 June 1759 in London to a Scottish mother, Helen Hay, and a Welsh army officer father, Charles Williams. She had an older sister, Cecilia (baptized 1760), and an older half-sister Persis from her father's first marriage (born 1743). Her father died in December 1762 when she was two. He had previously served as Secretary for Minorca when it was a British possession, and accumulated enough personal property that his widow and daughters lived comfortably on the income from hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Sicilian Romance
''A Sicilian Romance'' is a gothic novel by Ann Radcliffe. It was her second published work, and was first published anonymously in 1790. Summary The plot concerns the fallen nobility of the house of Mazzini, on the northern shore of Sicily, as related by a tourist who learns of their turbulent history from a monk he meets at the ruins of their once-magnificent castle. The Marquis Mazzini's daughters, Emilia and Julia, are beautiful and accomplished young ladies. Julia quickly falls in love with the young and handsome Italian count Hippolitus de Vereza, but to her dismay her father decides that she should marry Duke de Luovo instead. After much thought Julia attempts to elope with Hippolitus on the night before her wedding. However, their escape has been anticipated, and the Marquis ambushes and seemingly kills Hippolitus, whose body is carried away by his servants. He insists that Julia to accept the engagement with de Luovo, but after much difficulty she escapes again alo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ann Radcliffe
Ann Radcliffe (née Ward; 9 July 1764 – 7 February 1823) was an English novelist and a pioneer of Gothic fiction. Her technique of explaining apparently supernatural elements in her novels has been credited with gaining respectability for Gothic fiction in the 1790s.The British LibrarRetrieved 12 November 2016./ref> Radcliffe was the most popular writer of her day and almost universally admired; contemporary critics called her the mighty enchantress and the Shakespeare of romance-writers, and her popularity continued through the 19th century. Interest has revived in the early 21st century, with the publication of three biographies.Chawton House LibraryRuth Facer, "Ann Radcliffe (1764–1823)" retrieved 1 December 2012. Biography Early life Radcliffe was born Ann Ward in Holborn, London on 9 July 1764. She was the only child to William Ward (1737-1798) and Ann Oates (1726-1800), and her mother was 36 years old when she gave birth. Her father worked as a haberdasher in Lond ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Pilkington
Mary Pilkington (born Mary Susanna Hopkins, 1761–1839) was an English novelist and poet. Many of her over forty novels were written for children. Biography Pilkington was born in Cambridge, England. Her father died when she was 15 years old and she went to live with her grandfather. The man who had taken over her father's medical practice eventually became her husband in 1786. While he was away working as a naval surgeon, she took work as a governess. Pilkington's portrait, painted by Joseph Slater Jr., is held by the Royal Collection Trust. An engraving of her by James Hopwood the Elder is held by the National Portrait Gallery, London, and another by Isaac Slater is held by the Victoria and Albert Museum. She published over forty novels in the years leading up to 1825, many of them for children. She also wrote for periodicals, notably ''The Lady's Monthly Museum'' — which she left over poor compensation — and ''The Lady's Magazine London fashionable spencer ">Spenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gothic Fiction
Gothic fiction, sometimes called Gothic horror in the 20th century, is a loose literary aesthetic of fear and haunting. The name is a reference to Gothic architecture of the European Middle Ages, which was characteristic of the settings of early Gothic novels. The first work to call itself Gothic was Horace Walpole's 1764 novel ''The Castle of Otranto'', later subtitled "A Gothic Story". Subsequent 18th century contributors included Clara Reeve, Ann Radcliffe, William Beckford (novelist), William Thomas Beckford, and Matthew Gregory Lewis, Matthew Lewis. The Gothic influence continued into the early 19th century, works by the Romantic poetry, Romantic poets, and novelists such as Mary Shelley, Charles Maturin, Walter Scott and E. T. A. Hoffmann frequently drew upon gothic motifs in their works. The early Victorian literature, Victorian period continued the use of gothic, in novels by Charles Dickens and the Brontë family, Brontë sisters, as well as works by the American ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minerva Press
Minerva Press was a publishing house, noted for creating a lucrative market in sentimental and Gothic fiction in the late 18th century and early 19th century. It was established by William Lane (c. 1745–1814) at No 33 Leadenhall Street, London, when he moved his circulating library there in about 1790. Publications The Minerva Press was hugely successful in its heyday, though it had a reputation for sensationalism among readers and critics, and for sharp business practices among some of its competitors. Many of Lane's regular writers were women, including Regina Maria Roche (''The Maid of Hamlet'', 1793; '' Clermont'', 1798); Eliza Parsons (''The Castle of Wolfenbach'', 1793; '' The Mysterious Warning'', 1796); E. M. Foster; and Eleanor Sleath (''The Orphan of the Rhine'', 1798) whose Gothic fiction is included in the list of seven " horrid novels" recommended by the character Isabella Thorpe in Jane Austen's ''Northanger Abbey''. Six of the ''Northanger'' Seven were publis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Lane (bookseller)
William Lane (1746–1814) was a publisher and bookseller in London in the late 18th century best known now for his founding of the wildly successful Minerva Press. Career Around 1790 Lane established the Minerva Printing Press in Cree Church Lane, Leadenhall Street, moving ca.1792 to no. 31 Leadenhall Street. The Minerva Press issued works by Courtney Melmoth and others. Subscribers to Lane's Circulating Library (established circa 1774) included Leigh Hunt. Around 1799 John Darling and Anthony King Newman joined Lane as "Lane, Darling, Newman & Co." In 1804 Lane retired and Newman took over the business. Print, trade-card (BM Heal,79.36).jpg, Trade card, Lane's Circulating Library, 1793 Print, trade-card (BM Heal,79.45).jpg, Trade card, Lane's Circulating Library, c. 1795 Print, trade-card (BM Heal,79.37).jpg, Trade card, Lane's Circulating Library, c. 1795 Print, trade-card (BM Heal,79.46).jpg, Trade card, Minerva Library, c. 1795 Notes References See also *List of M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
