This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1790.
Events
New books
Fiction
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
- January 1 â James Wills, Irish poet (died 1868)
- January 10 â Anders Abraham Grafström, Swedish historian, priest and poet (died 1870)
- January 29 â George Métivier, Guernsey poet writing in Guernésiais (died 1881)
- March 3 â John Austin, English legal philosopher (died 1859)
- March 10 â Jacques Arago, French traveller and writer (died 1855)
- March 18 â Marquis de Custine, French aristocrat and travel writer (died 1857)
- June 9 â Abel-François Villemain, French politician and writer (died 1870)
- June 24 â Helena Ekblom, Swedish writer and preacher (died 1859)
- July 8 â Fitz-Greene Halleck, American poet (died 1867)
- August 8 â Ferenc Kölcsey, Hungarian poet and critic (died 1838)
- October 1 â Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna, English novelist (died 1846)
- October 21 â Alphonse de Lamartine, French poet (died 1869)
- December 8 â Richard Carlile, English advocate of suffrage and press freedom (died 1843)
- December 25 â Anna Eliza Bray, English novelist and travel writer (died 1883)
- Unknown date â Mary Diana Dods (also as David Lyndsay and Walter Sholto Douglas), Scottish writer (died 1830 in literature)
Deaths
- February 19 â Thomas de Mahy, marquis de Favras, man of letters (born 1744; executed)
- March 20 â Thomas Richards of Coychurch, cleric and lexicographer (born c.1710)
- April 3 â Ephraim Kuh, German poet, 58/9
- April 29 â Charles-Nicolas Cochin, French art critic (born 1715)
- May 2 â Martin Madan, English writer and cleric (born 1726)
- May 6 â Jacques Antoine Hippolyte, Comte de Guibert, French military writer (born 1743)
- May 21 â Thomas Warton, English poet and literary historian (born 1798)
- July 7 â François Hemsterhuis, Dutch philosopher (born 1721)
- July 17 â Adam Smith, Scottish philosopher and political economist (born 1723)
- July 25 â William Livingston, American political writer and politician (born 1723)
- unknown date â Maria Vittoria Ottoboni, Italian stage actress, writer and salonist (b. 1721)
- probable â Marc-Antoine Eidous, French encyclopedist (born c. 1724)
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