1709 in literature
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The year 1709 in literature involved some significant events.
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[edit] Events
- February 2 - Alexander Selkirk, the original Robinson Crusoe, is rescued and returns to civilisation.
- April 12 - The Tatler is founded by Richard Steele.
- The British Parliament passes the Statute of Anne, the first modern copyright act.
[edit] New books
- Various - The Female Tatler
- Abbé Olivier- Memoirs of the Life and Adventures of Signor Rozelli
- Mary Astell - Bart'lemy Fair
- Thomas Baker -Reflections on Learning, showing the Insufficiency thereof in its several particulars, in order to evince the usefulness and necessity of Revelation, vol. 1
- George Berkeley - An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision
- Richard Blackmore - Instructions to Vander Beck
- Samuel Cobb - The Female Reign
- Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury - Sensus Communis (philosophy)
- Daniel Defoe - The History of the Union of Great Britain
- Charles Gildon - The Golden Spy (satire)
- White Kennett - A Vindication of the Church and Clergy of England
- William King - Miscellanies in Prose and Verse
- John Lawson - A New Voyage to Carolina
- Delarivière Manley - The New Atalantis
- William Shakespeare - The Works of Mr William Shakespear (edited by Nicholas Rowe, the first edition with scene divisions)
- John Strype - Annals of the Reformation and Establishment of Religion
- Jonathan Swift - A Famous Prediction of Merlin
- A Project for the Advancement of Religion and the Reformation of Manners ("By a Person of Quality")
- A Vindication of Isaac Bickerstaff
- William Temple - Memoirs: Part III (ed. Jonathan Swift)
- John Trenchard -The Natural History of Superstition
[edit] New drama
- Anthony Aston - Love in a Hurry
- Susanna Centlivre - The Busie Body
- - The Man's Bewitch'd
- Colley Cibber - The Rival Fools
- Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon - Electre
- John Dennis - Appius and Virginia
- Thomas d'Urfey - The Modern Prophets
- Juan Claudio de la Hoz y Mota - José, salvador de Egipto
- Charles Johnson - Love and Liberty (not performed)
- Alain-René Lesage - Turcaret
- Mary Pix - The Adventures in Madrid
[edit] Poetry
- John Reynolds - Death's Vision Represented in a Philosophical Sacred Poem
- Poetical Miscellanies: The Sixth Part (aka "Tonson's Miscllanies")
[edit] Births
- April 14 - Charles Collé, dramatists
- August 7 - Jean-Jacques Lefranc, marquis de Pompignan, French poet (died 1784)
- August 29 - Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset, poet and dramatist (died 1777)
- September 18 - Samuel Johnson (died 1784)
- December 25 - Julien Offray de La Mettrie, French author (died 1751)
- unknown date
- John Armstrong, poet
- Richard Burn, legal writer
- John Cleland, controversial English novelist (died 1789)
- John Banks
- probable
- James Adair, historian
[edit] Deaths
- February 15 - John Philips, poet (born 1676)
- June 30 - Edward Lhuyd, naturalist (born 1660)
- July 8 - Gustaf Adlerfelt, historian (born 1671)
- December 8 - Thomas Corneille, dramatist (born 1625)
- date unknown
- Robert Gould, poet (born c.1660)
- Mary Pix, dramatist (born 1666)
