1788 in literature
See also: 1787 in literature, other events of 1788, 1789 in literature, list of years in literature.
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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 Bernardin de Saint-Pierre
- Mary: a fiction 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