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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1787.

Events

January 15 – Ann Ward marries William Radcliffe, gaining the surname by which she will be known as a writer of Gothic novels.^[1]
April 16 – Royall Tyler's The Contrast becomes the first comedy written by an American citizen to be professionally produced, at the John Street Theatre (Manhattan).
April 17 – The Edinburgh edition of Robert Burns' Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect is published by William Creech. It includes a Burns portrait by Alexander Nasmyth. The poet has great social success in the city's literary circles; 16-year-old Walter Scott meets him at the house of Adam Ferguson.
June 1 – King George III of Great Britain issues a Proclamation for the Discouragement of Vice, which can be used to prosecute obscene publications.^[2]
June 27 – Just before midnight, Edward Gibbon completes The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire in the small summerhouse in his garden in Lausanne, Switzerland.
July – Friedrich Schiller arrives in Weimar.^[3]
November 21 – François-Joseph Talma makes his professional stage debut at the Comédie-Française as Seide, in Voltaire's Mahomet.
December 4 – Robert Burns meets Agnes Maclehose at a party given by Miss Erskine Nimmo.^[4]

New books

Fiction

Elizabeth Bonhôte – Olivia, or, The Deserted Bride
Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvrai – Les Amours du chevalier de Faublas
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – The Sorrows of Young Werther (revised edition)^[5]
Johann Jakob Wilhelm Heinse – Ardinghello and die glückseligen Inseln
Elizabeth Helme – Louisa; or the Cottage on the Moor
Johann Karl August Musäus – Volksmärchen der Deutschen (fifth volume)^[6]
Elizabeth Sophia Tomlins – The Victim of Fancy
Betje Wolff and Aagje Deken – Abraham Blankaart

Children

François Guillaume Ducray-Duminil – Fanfan et Lolotte, ou Histoire de deux enfants abandonnés dans une île déserte (Fanfan and Lolotte, Story of Two Children Abandoned on a Desert Island)

Drama

Pierre Beaumarchais – Tarare (opera)
George Colman the Elder –The Village Lawyer
George Colman the Younger – Inkle and Yarico (comic opera)
Richard Cumberland – The Country Attorney^[7]
Germaine de Staël – Jeanne Grey
Thomas Holcroft – Seduction^[8]
Elizabeth Inchbald
- All on a Summer's Day^[9]
- The Midnight Hour
- Such Things Are
Harriet Lee – The New Peerage
Andrew Macdonald –Vimonda
Friedrich Schiller – Don Karlos, Infant von Spanien
Royall Tyler – The Contrast

Poetry

Non-fiction

Thomas Best – A Concise Treatise on the Art of Angling
Mathurin Jacques Brisson – Pesanteur Spécifique des Corps
Ottobah Cugoano – Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil and Wicked Traffic of the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species^[10]
(Sir) John Fenn (ed.) – The Paston Letters (Original letters, written during the reigns of Henry VI, Edward IV, and Richard III)
John Hawkins – Life of Samuel Johnson
'Publius' (Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay) – The Federalist papers (serial publication begins with Hamilton's "Federalist No. 1 – General Introduction" in The Independent Journal (New York City), October 27)^[11]
Scots Musical Museum, vol. 1
Mary Wollstonecraft – Thoughts on the Education of Daughters^[12]

Births

February 2 – Charles Etienne Boniface, French music teacher, playwright and journalist (died 1853)
February 17 – George Mogridge ("Old Humphrey"), English children's writer and poet (died 1854)
February 23 – Emma Willard, American teacher and writer (died 1870)
March 7 – George Bethune English, American explorer and writer (died 1828)
April 26 – Ludwig Uhland, German poet (died 1862)^[13]
May 29 – Konstantin Batyushkov, Russian poet, essayist and translator (died 1855)
July 9 – Taliesin Williams, Welsh poet and author (died 1847)^[14]
September 13 – John Adamson, English antiquary and expert on Portuguese (died 1855)
November 4 – Edmund Kean, English actor (died 1833)
November 15 – Richard Henry Dana Sr., American poet, critic and lawyer (died 1879)
November 21 – Bryan Procter (Barry Cornwall), English poet (died 1874)^[15]
December 16 – Mary Russell Mitford, English novelist (died 1855)^[16]

Deaths

April 1 – Floyer Sydenham, English classical scholar and translator (born 1710)
April 2 – Francisco Javier Clavijero, Mexican-born historian (born 1731)
May 4 – Philip Skelton, Irish clergyman and writer (born 1707)^[17]
June 19 – John Brown, Scottish theologian (born 1722)
October 28 – Johann Karl August Musäus, German satirist and children's writer (born 1735)^[18]
October 30 – Ferdinando Galiani, Italian economist (born 1728)
November 3 – Robert Lowth, English poet, grammarian and bishop (born 1710)^[19]
December 18 – Soame Jenyns, English poet and essayist (born 1704)

References

^ "The Mysteries of Udolpho". eNotes.
^ Anne Stott; Associate Lecturer Open University and Sessional Lecturer Anne Stott (2003). Hannah More: The First Victorian. Oxford University Press. p. 96. ISBN 978-0-19-924532-1.
^ Nicholas Martin (1996). Nietzsche and Schiller: Untimely Aesthetics. Clarendon Press. p. 117. ISBN 978-0-19-815913-1.
^ Hecht, Hans (1936). Robert Burns: The Man and His Work. London: William Hodge. p. 106.
^ Appelbaum, Stanley (2004-06-04), Introduction to The Sorrows of Young Werther, pp. vii–viii, ISBN 978-0486433639
^ Oxenford, John; Feiling, C. A. (1844). "Introduction". Tales from the German. p. viii.
^ Watson, George (1971). The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 2, 1660-1800. Cambridge University Press. p. 1968.
^ Nicoll, Allardyce. A History of English Drama 1660–1900: Volume III. Cambridge University Press, 2009. Page 271
^ Greene, John C. Theatre in Dublin, 1745-1820: A Calendar of Performances, Volume 6. Lexington Books, 2011. Page 4495
^ "Quobna Ottobah Cugoano". SJP. Retrieved 2023-08-21.
^ Scott, Kyle (2013). The Federalist Papers: A Reader's Guide. New York: Bloomsbury Press.
^ "Mary Wollstonecraft | Biography, Works, & Facts". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 10 August 2019.
^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Uhland, Johann Ludwig" . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
^ Griffith John Williams (1959). "Williams, Taliesin (Taliesin ab Iolo; 1787-1847), poet and author". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 31 October 2021.
^ One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Procter, Bryan Waller". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 22 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 419–420.
^ Lee, Elizabeth. "Mitford, Mary Russell" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 38. pp. 84–86.
^ "Skelton, Philip" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
^ Franz J. L. Thimm; William Henry Farn (1844). The Literature of Germany, from Its Earliest Period to the Present Time, Historically Developed ... Edited by W. H. Farn. p. 59.
^ The Royal Kalendar, Or, Complete and Correct Annual Register for England, Scotland, Ireland, and America, for the Year ... J. Debrett. 1817. p. 3.

[1] "The Mysteries of Udolpho". eNotes.

[2] Anne Stott; Associate Lecturer Open University and Sessional Lecturer Anne Stott (2003). Hannah More: The First Victorian. Oxford University Press. p. 96. ISBN 978-0-19-924532-1.

[3] Nicholas Martin (1996). Nietzsche and Schiller: Untimely Aesthetics. Clarendon Press. p. 117. ISBN 978-0-19-815913-1.

[4] Hecht, Hans (1936). Robert Burns: The Man and His Work. London: William Hodge. p. 106.

[5] Appelbaum, Stanley (2004-06-04), Introduction to The Sorrows of Young Werther, pp. vii–viii, ISBN 978-0486433639

[6] Oxenford, John; Feiling, C. A. (1844). "Introduction". Tales from the German. p. viii.

[7] Watson, George (1971). The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 2, 1660-1800. Cambridge University Press. p. 1968.

[8] Nicoll, Allardyce. A History of English Drama 1660–1900: Volume III. Cambridge University Press, 2009. Page 271

[9] Greene, John C. Theatre in Dublin, 1745-1820: A Calendar of Performances, Volume 6. Lexington Books, 2011. Page 4495

[10] "Quobna Ottobah Cugoano". SJP. Retrieved 2023-08-21.

[11] Scott, Kyle (2013). The Federalist Papers: A Reader's Guide. New York: Bloomsbury Press.

[12] "Mary Wollstonecraft | Biography, Works, & Facts". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 10 August 2019.

[13] Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Uhland, Johann Ludwig" . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.

[14] Griffith John Williams (1959). "Williams, Taliesin (Taliesin ab Iolo; 1787-1847), poet and author". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 31 October 2021.

[15] One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Procter, Bryan Waller". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 22 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 419–420.

[16] Lee, Elizabeth. "Mitford, Mary Russell" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 38. pp. 84–86.

[17] "Skelton, Philip" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.

[18] Franz J. L. Thimm; William Henry Farn (1844). The Literature of Germany, from Its Earliest Period to the Present Time, Historically Developed ... Edited by W. H. Farn. p. 59.

[19] The Royal Kalendar, Or, Complete and Correct Annual Register for England, Scotland, Ireland, and America, for the Year ... J. Debrett. 1817. p. 3.

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