1794 in literature
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This is a list of literature-related events in 1794.
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Events
- March 12 - The rebuilt Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, designed by Henry Holland, opens to the public.
- Robert Southey's first collection of poetry is published.
- Thomas Holcroft is indicted for treason as a member of the Society for Constitutional Information, but is released without charge.
- Ludwig Tieck graduates and begins a literary career.
New books
Fiction
- Giorgio Ferrich - Fabulae ab Illyricis adagiis disumptae
- William Godwin - Caleb Williams
- Ann Radcliffe - The Mysteries of Udolpho
- Thomas Spence - A Description of Spensonia
Non-fiction
- Edward Gibbon - Memoirs of my own Life
- Sake Dean Mahomet - The Travels of Dean Mahomet
- Thomas James Mathias - The Pursuits of Literature
- Thomas Paine - The Age of Reason
- William Paley - View of the Evidences of Christianity
- Walter Whiter - Specimen of a Commentary on Shakespeare
New drama
- Richard Cumberland
- François Juste Marie Raynouard - Caton d'Utique
New poetry
Main article: 1794 in poetry
- William Blake - Songs of Experience
- Isabella Kelly - Collection of Poems and Fables
Births
- January 11 - Jean Philibert Damiron, French philosopher (died 1862)
- May 17 - Anna Brownell Jameson, essayist and editor (died 1860)
- May 24 - William Whewell, philosopher, theologian, and historian of science (died 1866)
- August 16 - Jean-Henri Merle d'Aubigné, Swiss historian of the Reformation (died 1872)
Deaths
- January 16 - Edward Gibbon, historian (born 1737)
- March 24 - Jacques Hébert, journalist (born 1757; executed by guillotine)
- April 13 - Nicolas Chamfort, epigrammatist (born 1741; suicide)
- April 15 - Fabre d'Églantine, dramatist and poet (born 1750; executed by guillotine)
- April 27 - Sir William Jones, philologist (born 1746)
- June 3 - Girolamo Tiraboschi, Italian literary critic (born 1731)
- June 8 - Gottfried August Bürger, poet (born 1747)
- July 24
- André Chénier, French poet (born 1762; executed by guillotine)
- Jean-Antoine Roucher, French poet (born 1745; executed by guillotine)
- November - Rudolf Erich Raspe, author of the adventures of Baron Münchhausen (born 1736)
