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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1792.

Events

  • February 18 – Thomas Holcroft's the comedy The Road to Ruin is premièred at Covent Garden in London.{{cite book|author=John C. Greene|title=Theatre in Dublin, 1745–1820: A Calendar of Performances|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-9xrsQoC-oUC&pg=PA4499|date=16 November 2011|publisher=Lexington Books|isbn=978-1-61146-119-0|pages=4499}}
  • 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.

unknown date – Henry Walton Smith and his wife Anna set up a newsagent's business in London that will become the bookselling chain WHSmith.{{Cite web |url=http://www.whsmithplc.co.uk/WHSPLC-OC-History1.htm |title=Our Company: History 1792–1900 |publisher=W H Smith PLC |year=2008 |access-date=2010-07-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090627135545/http://www.whsmithplc.co.uk/WHSPLC-OC-History1.htm|archive-date=27 June 2009 }}

New books

=Fiction=

=Children=

  • Elizabeth Pinchard – The Blind Child, or, Anecdotes of the Wyndham Family{{cite book|author1=Library of Congress|author2=American Library Association|title=The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints: A Cumulative Author List Representing Library of Congress Printed Cards and Titles Reported by Other American Libraries|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RWEPAQAAMAAJ|year=1968|publisher=Mansell|isbn=978-0-7201-0003-7|page=586}}

=Drama=

=Poetry=

{{main article|1792 in poetry}}

=Non-fiction=

  • Saul Ascher – Leviathan oder über Religion in Rücksicht des Judentums (Leviathan or religion in respect of Judaism)
  • Yuan Mei (袁枚) – Suiyuan shidan (Recipes from the Garden of Contentment){{cite book |author1=Adler |first=Cyrus |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wJUSAAAAIAAJ |title=The Jewish Quarterly Review |author2=Schechter |first2=Solomon |author3=Neuman |first3=Abraham Aaron |author4=Zeitlin |first4=Solomon |publisher=Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning |year=1961 |page=77 |author-link=Cyrus Adler |author-link2=Solomon Schechter |author-link3=Abraham A. Neuman |author-link4=Solomon Zeitlin}}
  • Arthur Murphy – An Essay on the Life and Genius of Samuel Johnson
  • Maria Riddell – Voyage to the Madeira and Leeward and Caribbean Isles, with Sketches of the Natural History of these Islands
  • Gottlob Ernst Schulze – Aenesidemus
  • Mary Wollstonecraft – A Vindication of the Rights of Woman{{Cite web |title=Mary Wollstonecraft {{!}} Biography, Works, & Facts |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mary-Wollstonecraft |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=10 August 2019 |language=en}}

Births

  • February 10 – Frederick Marryat (Captain Marryat), English novelist and naval officer (died 1848){{cite book|author=Lois H. Fisher|title=A Literary Gazetteer of England|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jDmdIHzcI70C|year=1980|publisher=McGraw-Hill|isbn=978-0-07-021098-1|page=418}}
  • April 5 – John Lavicount Anderdon, English writer (died 1874){{DNB |wstitle=Anderdon, John Lavicount}}
  • April 25 – John Keble, English poet (died 1866){{cite book|author=George Saintsbury|title=A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=byn3DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA269|date=13 August 2020|publisher=BoD – Books on Demand|isbn=978-3-7524-2531-4|pages=269}}
  • 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){{cite book|author=William Michael Rossetti|title=Memoir of Percy Bysshe Shelley: (with New Preface)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2sOFoEeQAL0C&pg=PA5|year=1886|publisher=John Slark|pages=5}}
  • October 17 – Sir John Bowring, English political economist and miscellanist (died 1872)
  • October 20 – John Pascoe Fawkner, pioneer, newspaper publisher in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (died 1869){{cite book|chapter-url=https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/fawkner-john-pascoe-2037|title=John Pascoe Fawkner|author=Hugh Anderson|chapter=Fawkner, John Pascoe (1792–1869)|publisher=National Centre of Biography, Australian National University|access-date=April 4, 2021}}
  • October 28 – Anne Knight (Anne Waspe), English children's writer and educationist (died 1860)
  • November 26 – Sarah Grimké, American abolitionist and suffragist (died 1873){{cite book|title=The New England Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k71JAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA184|year=1885|publisher=New England Magazine Company|pages=184}}
  • November 28 – Victor Cousin, French philosopher (died 1867){{cite book|title=The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R8EEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA163|year=1867|publisher=Houlston and Stonemen|pages=163}}
  • December 18 – William Howitt, English historical writer and poet (died 1879)

Deaths

  • April 23 – Karl Friedrich Bahrdt, German theologian and writer (born 1741)
  • May 4 – Giuseppe Garampi, Italian scholar and book collector (born 1725){{cite book|title=Lias|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iaotAAAAIAAJ|year=1987|publisher=Holland University Press|page=268}}
  • May 12 – Charles Simon Favart, French dramatist (born 1710){{cite book|author=Don Michael Randel|title=The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jEGpMqRcQjIC&pg=PA262|year=1996|publisher=Harvard University Press|isbn=978-0-674-37299-3|pages=262}}
  • May 29 – Thomas Marryat, English medical writer and physician (born 1730)
  • June 4
  • John Burgoyne, English dramatist and army officer (born 1723){{cite book|author=John Rhodehamel|title=The American Revolution: Writings from the War of Independence|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PkF3AAAAMAAJ|year=2001|publisher=Library of America|isbn=978-1-883011-91-8|page=816}}
  • Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz, Baltic German dramatist (born 1751) (found dead early this morning, May 24 in the Julian calendar){{Cite book |last=Konzett |first=Matthias |title=Encyclopedia of German Literature |date=2015 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-135-94129-1 |page=1357 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C-I4CQAAQBAJ&pg=PT1357 |access-date=2019-03-24}}
  • September 25 – Jacques Cazotte, French novelist (born 1719) (executed){{cite book |first=Charlotte |last=Trinquet |chapter=Cazotte, Jacques |title=The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Folktales and Fairy Tales: A–F |editor=Haase, Donald |publisher=Greenwood Publishing |isbn=0-313-33441-2 |pages=170–171}}
  • September – John Edwards (1747–1792), Welsh poet (born 1747)
  • December 7 – Marie Jeanne Riccoboni (Laboras de Mezières), French novelist (born 1714){{cite book|author=Samia I. Spencer|title=Writers of the French Enlightenment|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K9EUAQAAIAAJ|year=2005|publisher=Thomson Gale|isbn=978-0-7876-8132-6|page=108}}

References

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