1788 in literature

See also: 1787 in literature, other events of 1788, 1789 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

• Ann Ward marries William Radcliffe, gaining the surname under which she will become known as a writer of Gothic novels.

New Books

• Volumes IV, V, and VI of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Edward Gibbon
• Letters to Archdeacon Travis by Richard Porson
• Paul et Virginie by Mary Wollstonecraft

Births

• January 22 - George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, English poet (+ 1824)
• September 22 - Theodore Edward Hook, English author
• December 6 - Richard Harris Barham, author of The Ingoldsby Legends

Deaths