1689 in literature
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The year 1689 in literature involved some significant events.
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[edit] Events
- Jonathan Swift becomes secretary to Sir William Temple.
[edit] New books
- Sir Richard Cox - Hibernia Anglicana
- John Locke - An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
- John Selden - Table Talk - (published posthumously)
- Janez Vajkard Valvasor - The Glory of the Duchy of Carniola (Die Ehre des Herzogtums Crain, Slava vojvodine Kranjske)'
[edit] New drama
- Aphra Behn - The Widow Ranter
- James Carlisle - The Fortune Hunters, or Two Fools Well Met
- John Crowne - The English Friar, or the Town Sparks
- James Farewell - The Irish Hudibras
- Sor Juana - Amor es más labertino (Love the Greater Labyrinth)
- Nathaniel Lee - The Massacre of Paris
- Thomas Shadwell - The Amorous Bigotte
- - Bury Fair
[edit] Births
- January 18 - Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu, French satirist (died 1755)
- May 26 - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (died 1762)
- July 9 - Alexis Piron, French epigrammatist (died 1773)
- August 19 - Samuel Richardson, English novelist (died 1761)
[edit] Deaths
- February 21 - Isaac Vossius, collector of manuscripts (born 1618)
- April 16 - Aphra Behn, the first British woman to support herself by writing (born 1640)
- August 21 - William Cleland, poet (born c.1661)
- date unknown - Pjetër Bogdani, early Albanian-language author (born c.1630)
[edit] In later fiction
In the 1988 novel Dictionary of the Khazars by Milorad Pavić the climactic event where the scholar/warrior Avram Brankovich dies takes place in 1689.
[edit] Sources
- Dictionary of the Khazars by Milorad Pavić published 1988, English translation by Christina Pribićević-Zorić.
