1792 in literature

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. 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. New books Fiction Hugh Henry Brackenridge – Modern Chivalry: containing the Adventures of Captain John Farrago and Teague O'Regan, his servant Johann Baptist Durach – Philippine Welserin Susannah Gunning – Anecdotes of the Delborough Family Thomas Holcroft – Anna St. Ives Charlotte Palmer It Is and It Is Not a Novel Integrity and Content: an Allegory Mary Robinson – Vancenza; or The Dangers of Credulity Charlotte Turner Smith – Desmond