Summer – William Wordsworth tours western England and Wales (passing by Tintern Abbey). His first poems, An Evening Walk and Descriptive Sketches are published this year.[3]
October–November – During the Reign of Terror in the French Revolution, the English writer Helen Maria Williams is imprisoned with her family in the Luxembourg Palace and later in the Convent des Anglaises in Paris, where she continues her translations of French-language works into English, including what will prove to be a popular version of Bernardin St. Pierre's novel Paul et Virginie (1788). To this she appends her own prison sonnets.
November 2 – The French dramatist Olympe de Gouges is sentenced to death by a revolutionary tribunal. Both she and her prosecutors quote the manuscript of her unfinished play La France Sauvée in evidence.[4]
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^Frederick Martin (1865). The Life of John Clare. Macmillan. p. 2.
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^John Correll (1865). Felicia Hemans: Her Life and Poems. Peter Roe, Printer and Publisher. p. 1.
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^Selborne Magazine for Lovers and Students of Living Nature. J. Bale. 1888. p. 183.