Overview of the events of 1792 in literature
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1792 .
Events
July – Molière 's body is exhumed for reburial in the Museum of French Monuments in Paris, having been originally buried in the ground reserved for unbaptised infants, because actors were not allowed to be buried on sacred ground.
September 29 – The Theatre Royal, Dumfries opens as The Theatre. By the 21st century this will be the oldest working theatre in Scotland .
Henry Walton Smith and his wife Anna set up a newsagent 's business in London that will become the bookselling chain WHSmith .[1]
New books
Fiction
Children
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
February 10 – Frederick Marryat (Captain Marryat), English novelist and naval officer (died 1848 )
April 5 – John Lavicount Anderdon , English writer (died 1874 )[3]
April 25 – John Keble , English poet (died 1866 )
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 )
October 17 – Sir John Bowring , English political economist and miscellanist (died 1872 )
October 28 – Anne Knight (Anne Waspe), English children's writer and educationist (died 1860 )
November 26 – Sarah Grimké , American abolitionist and suffragist (died 1873 )
December 18 – William Howitt , English historical writer and poet (died 1879 )
Deaths
In literature
References
^ "Our Company: History 1792–1900" . W H Smith PLC. 2008. Archived from the original on 27 June 2009. Retrieved 2010-07-13 .
^ "Mary Wollstonecraft | Biography, Works, & Facts" . Encyclopedia Britannica . Retrieved 10 August 2019 .
^ This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : "Anderdon, John Lavicount ". Dictionary of National Biography . London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
^ Konzett, Matthias (2015). Encyclopedia of German Literature . Routledge. p. 1357. ISBN 9781135941291 . Retrieved 24 March 2019 .
^ Charlotte Trinquet, "Cazotte, Jacques" In: The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Folktales and Fairy Tales: A–F , ed. Donald Haase, Greenwood Publishing, ISBN 0-313-33441-2 , pp. 170–171.