1723 in literature
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The year 1723 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
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[edit] Events
- Voltaire contracts smallpox.
- The book collection of Samuel Pepys is transferred to the Pepys Library at Magdalene College, Cambridge.
[edit] New books
- Penelope Aubin - The Life of Charlotta Du Pont, an English lady; taken from her own memoirs
- Jane Barker - A Patch-Work Screen for the Ladies (fiction)
- Arthur Blackamore - Luck at Last
- Richard Blackmore - Alfred
- Elegy on the deplorable Death of Elizabeth Murray Sister to Sir William Murray of Newtoun barb'rously murdered by her Husband Thomas Kincaid younger of Gogar-Mains, March 29th 1723 (anonymous broadsheet)
- Eliza Haywood - Idalia
- Thomas Gordon and John Trenchard - Cato's Letters
- John Sheffield, Duke of Buckingham - Works
- Ned Ward - Nuptial Dialogues and Debates
[edit] New drama
- Susanna Centlivre - The Artifice
- Elijah Fenton - Marianne
- Eliza Haywood - A Wife to be Let
- Charles Johnson - Love in a Forest (adapted from As You Like It)
- Pierre de Marivaux - La Double Inconstance
- Ambrose Philips - Humfrey, Duke of Floucester
- Richard Steele - The Conscious Lovers
[edit] Poetry
- David Mallet - William and Margaret
- William Meston - Knight of the Kirk
- Ambrose Philips - Ode on the Death of William, Earl of Cowper
- Matthew Prior
- Down-Hall
- The Turtle and the Sparrow
- Allan Ramsay - The Tea-Table Miscellany i.
[edit] Non-fiction
- Anderson's Constitutions of the Freemasons
- Henry Baker - An Invocation of Health
- Bernard de Mandeville - A Search into the Nature of Society
[edit] Births
- January 21 (or June 21) - Baron d'Holbach - philosopher, encyclopedist (died 1789)
- February 23 - Richard Price, philosopher (died 1791)
- February 24 - John Burgoyne, soldier and dramatist (died 1792)
- June 20 - Adam Ferguson, philosopher and historian (died 1816)
- July 11 - Jean-François Marmontel, French novelist and dramatist (died 1799)
- July 17 - Adam Smith - Scottish economist (died 1790)
- September 30 - William Hutton (historian), local historian
- November 8 - John Byron, English vice-admiral, grandfather of the poet Lord Byron (died 1786)
- November 30 - William Livingston, American politician and journalist (died 1790)
- December 26 - Friedrich Melchior, baron von Grimm (died 1807)
[edit] Deaths
- February 26 - Thomas D'Urfey, dramatist (born 1653)
- March 13 - René Auguste Constantin de Renneville, French Protestant poet and historian (born 1650)
- March 15 - Johann Christian Günther, German poet (born 1695)
- May 11 - Jean Galbert de Campistron, dramatist (born 1656)
- June 8 - Isaac Chayyim Cantarini, Italian poet, physician and preacher (born 1644)
- July 28 - Marianna Alcoforado, author of Letters of a Portuguese Nun (born 1640)
- August 21 - Dimitrie Cantemir, first author in the Romanian language (born 1673)
- September 23 - Jacques Basnages, Protestant poet, linguist and preacher (born 1653)
- December 1 - Susannah Centlivre, dramatist (born 1669)
- December 17 - John Trenchard, politician and writer (born 1662)
