1793 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1793. Events February 7 – The day after poverty-stricken playwright Carlo Goldoni dies, the National Convention votes to restore his French state pension, which has been suspended due to the French Revolution. It is passed on to his widow. June 1 – In the Reign of Terror in Paris, the Girondist Madame Roland is arrested for treason. She writes Appel à l'impartiale postérité in prison before being guillotined on November 8. 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. 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. December 9 – New York City's first daily newspaper, the American Minerva, is founded by Noah Webster. unknown date – James Lackington opens his "Temple of the Muses" bookshop in Finsbury Square, London. The Royal Library, Denmark, in Copenhagen, opens to the public. New books Fiction Eliza Parsons – The Castle of Wolfenbach Charlotte Turner Smith The Old Manor House The Emigrants Jane West as 'Prudentia Homespun' – The Advantages of Education, or The History of Maria Williams Johann Heinrich Daniel Zschokke – Abällino, der grosse Bandit