This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1778.

List of years in literature (table)
In poetry
1775
1776
1777
1778
1779
1780
1781
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Events

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New books

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Fiction

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Children

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  • Mrs. Barbauld
    • Lessons for Children of Two to Three[6]
    • Lessons for Children of Three (two parts, a fourth book, for four-year-olds, in 1779)

Drama

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Poetry

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Non-fiction

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Births

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Margaret Bayard Smith

Deaths

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References

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  2. ^ Kelly, Gary. "Scott, Sarah (1720–1795)." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford UP, 2004.
  3. ^ Dalrymple, William (2004). White Mughals: love and betrayal in eighteenth-century India. Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0-14-200412-8..
  4. ^ Paul Tankard, "Boswell, George Steevens, and the Johnsonian Biography Wars". The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, 22 (2012), pp. 73–95.
  5. ^ George Saintsbury (1907). Periods of European Literature. C. Scribner's sons. p. 487.
  6. ^ Tamara S. Wagner (28 May 2020). The Victorian Baby in Print: Infancy, Infant Care, and Nineteenth-Century Popular Culture. Oxford University Press. p. 113. ISBN 978-0-19-885801-0.
  7. ^ Country Life. Country Life, Limited. 2009. p. 124.
  8. ^ Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (March 2004). Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama: Volume IV. The Minerva Group, Inc. p. 5. ISBN 978-1-4102-1336-5.
  9. ^ William Stewart (2007). British and Irish Poets: A Biographical Dictionary, 449-2006. McFarland. p. 296. ISBN 978-0-7864-2891-5.
  10. ^ Francesco Flamini (1907). A History of Italian Literature (1265-1907). National Alumni. p. 306.
  11. ^ John Arthur Garraty; Mark Christopher Carnes (1999). American National Biography. Oxford University Press. p. 252. ISBN 978-0-19-512799-7.
  12. ^ The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge. Appleton. 1867. p. 37.
  13. ^ Lawrence M. Lande (1957). Old Lamps Aglow: An Appreciation of Early Canadian Poetry. Christian Brothers. p. 261.
  14. ^ Alexander IRELAND (1868). List of the writings of William Hazlitt and Leigh Hunt, chronologically arranged, with notes ... p. 46.
  15. ^ Gail Morin (2001). Métis Families: Mainville to Pruden. Quintin Publications. p. 479. ISBN 978-1-58211-412-5.
  16. ^ John Ward Dean; George Folsom; John Gilmary Shea (1860). The Historical Magazine and Notes and Queries Concerning the Antiquities, History and Biography of America. Henry B. Dawson. p. 156.
  17. ^ Henry Joseph Monck Mason (1999). Essay on the Antiquity and Constitution of Parliaments in Ireland. Gaunt. p. 9. ISBN 978-1-56169-554-6.
  18. ^ Scholastic Library Publishing (2006). Encyclopedia Americana. Scholastic Library Pub. p. 549. ISBN 978-0-7172-0139-6.
  19. ^ Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art (1887). Report & Transactions. p. 261.
  20. ^ Scholastic Library Publishing (2006). Encyclopedia Americana. Scholastic Library Pub. p. 505. ISBN 978-0-7172-0139-6.
  21. ^ The Men of the Time: Or, Sketches of Living Notables ... Redfield. 1852. p. 72.
  22. ^ Royle, Trevor (2012). The Mainstream Companion to Scottish Literature. Random House. p. 92. ISBN 9781780574196.
  23. ^ Franklin Henry Hooper (1937). The Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia britannica Company, Limited. p. 845.
  24. ^ Ivan Katchanovski; Zenon E. Kohut; Bohdan Y. Nebesio; Myroslav Yurkevich (11 July 2013). Historical Dictionary of Ukraine. Scarecrow Press. p. 298. ISBN 978-0-8108-7847-1.
  25. ^ Tony Copsey (2000). Suffolk Writers from the Beginning Until 1800: A Catalogue of Suffolk Authors with Some Account of Their Lives and a List of Their Writings. Book Company. p. 131. ISBN 978-0-9522970-1-7.
  26. ^ Albert Edward Wilson (1946). Pantomime Pageant: A Procession of Harlequins, Clowns, Comedians, Principal Boys, Pantomime-writers, Producers and Playgoers. S. Paul & Company Limited. p. 21.
  27. ^ Peter Gay, The Enlightenment – An Interpretation, Volume 2: The Science of Freedom, Wildwood House, London, 1973, pp. 88–89.
  28. ^ Charles Henry Dobinson (1969). Jean-Jacques Rousseau: His Thought and Its Relevance Today. Methuen. p. 3. ISBN 978-0-416-15210-4.
  29. ^ John Parker (1967). Who's who in the Theatre. Pitman. p. 1698.
  30. ^ Robert J. Morgan (October 2010). Near to the Heart of God: Meditations on 366 Best-Loved Hymns. Revell. p. 324. ISBN 978-0-8007-3395-7.
  31. ^ Edward Hasted (1782). The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent... author. p. 580.