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1747
in
literature&o=10616
1747 in literature&o=10616
1747 in literature
The year
1747 in literature
involved some significant events and new books.
Events
The
Battle of Lauffeldt
, where the French defeat the English
Samuel Johnson
begins work on his
dictionary
of the
English language
David Garrick
becomes one of the managers of
Drury Lane Theatre
New books
William Blackstone
-
The Pantheon
(attrib)
Thomas Carte
-
A General History of England
William Dunkin
-
Boetia
Thomas Edward
-
A Supplement to Mr. Warburton's Edition of Shakespear
Henry Fielding
, as "John Trott Plaid" -
The Jacobite's Journal
(periodical)
Sarah Fielding
-
Familiar Letters Between the Principal Characters in David Simple
(in defense against unauthorized continuations)
Samuel Foote
-
The Roman and English Comedy Consider'd
Philip Francis
-
A Poetical Translation of the Works of Horace
Hannah Glasse
-
The Art of Cookery
Madame de Graffigny
-
Letters from a Peruvian Woman
Thomas Gray
-
Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College
Henry Home, Lord Kames
-
Essays Upon Several Subjects Concerning British Antiquities
Samuel Johnson
-
The Plan of a Dictionary of the English Language
Charlotte Lennox
-
Poems
George Lyttelton
-
Monody
(poetry)
David Mallet
-
Amyntor and Theodora
William Mason
-
Musaeus: A monody to the memory of Pope
(an imitation of
Milton's
Lycidas
)
William Memoth, the younger -
The Letters of Pliny the Consul
Lady
Mary Wortley Montagu
-
Six Town Eclogues
Josiah Ralph
-
A Miscellany
Samuel Richardson
-
Clarissa
vol. i - ii
William Shakespeare
-
The Works of Shakespear
(edited by
William Warburton
)
Tobias Smollett
-
Reproof
Joseph Spence
-
Polymetis
Laurence Sterne
-
The Case of Elijah and the Widow of Zerephath
Voltaire
-
Zadig
Horace Walpole
-
A Letter to the Whigs
Joseph Warton
-
Ranelagh House
Thomas Warton
-
The Pleasures of Melancholy
New drama
John Cunningham
-
Love in a Mist
Benjamin Hoadly the younger -
The Suspicious Husband
Edward Moore
-
The Foundling
Births
January 11
:
François Alexandre Frédéric, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt
(died
1827
)
January 15
:
John Aikin
, English doctor and writer (died
1822
)
December 12
:
Anna Seward
, English writer (died
1809
)
Deaths
January 16
:
Barthold Heinrich Brockes
(born
1680
)
November 17
:
Alain-René Le Sage
, French novelist and playwright (born
1668
)
Leonard Welsted
Joseph Trapp
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