1793 in literature - Definition and Overview

See also: 1792 in literature, other events of 1793, 1794 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

New Books

• Songs of Experience - William Blake
• The Old Manor House and The Emigrants - Charlotte Turner Smith
• Abällino, der grosse Bandit - Johann Heinrich Daniel Zschokke

Births

• April 4 - Casimir Delavigne, poet
• June 1 - Henry Francis Lyte, hymn-writer
• June 28 - Georg Friedrich Schömann, classicist
• July 12 - John Clare
• September 25 - Felicia Hemans
• December 15 - Henry Charles Carey, economist
• December 28 - Karl Friedrich Neumann

Deaths

• January 4 - Bengt Lidner, poet
• February 6 - Carlo Goldoni
• April 2 - Colin Macfarquhar, co-founder of Encyclopaedia Britannica
• April 29 - John Michell, philosopher
• May 20 - Charles Bonnet, philosopher
• June 26 - Gilbert White
• November 3 - Olympe de Gouges, dramatist
• November 17 - Louis Pierre Manuel

Awards