1769 in literature
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[edit] Events
- February–April - John Wilkes is expelled from the Parliament of Great Britain three times.
- 5–7 September - English Actor-manager David Garrick stages a Shakespeare Jubilee festival in Stratford-upon-Avon, with no performances of Shakespeare's works.[1]
- Thomas Chatterton sends "Rowley"'s History of England to Horace Walpole.
[edit] New books
[edit] Fiction
- Elizabeth Bonhôte - Hortensia, or, The Distressed Wife
- Frances Brooke - The History of Emily Montague (the first novel written in Canada)
- Elizabeth Griffith and Richard Griffith
- The Delicate Distress
- Two Novels: in Letters
- Charles Jenner - The Placid Man
- Margaret Minifie with Susannah Minifie Gunning - The Hermit
- Susannah Minifie - The Cottage
- Nicolas-Edme Rétif - Le Pied de Fanchette
- Tobias Smollett - The History and Adventures of an Atom
- William Tooke - The Loves of Othniel and Achsah
[edit] Poetry
Main article: 1769 in poetry
- Mary Bowes, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne - The Siege of Jerusalem
- Basílio da Gama - O Uraguai
- Thomas Gray - Ode Performed in the Senate-House at Cambridge
- John Ogilvie - Paradise
- Clara Reeve - Poems
[edit] New drama
- Richard Cumberland - The Brothers
- Alexander Dow - Zingis
- Elizabeth Griffith - The School for Rakes
- John Home - The Fatal Discovery
- Charlotte Lennox - The Sister
[edit] Nonfiction
- William Blackstone - A Reply to Dr. Priestley
- William Buchan - Domestic Medicine
- Edmund Burke - Observations on a Late State of the Nation
- Charles Burney - An Essay Towards a History of the Principal Comets that have Appeared Since 1742
- Adam Ferguson - Institutes of Moral Philosophy
- Letters of Junius (unknown, see identity of Junius, but Philip Francis by scholarly consensus)
- The Political Contest i - ii
- The Letters from Junius to the D*** of G***** (to the Duke of Grafton)
- Oliver Goldsmith - The Roman History (textbook)
- James Granger - Biographical History of England from Egbert the Great to the Revolution
- Elizabeth Montagu - An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Shakespear
- Joshua Reynolds - A Discourse
- William Robertson - The History of the Reign of the Emperor Charles V
- Laurence Sterne
- A political Romance
- Sermons by the Late Rev. Mr. Sterne
[edit] Births
- February 9 - Susette Gontard, lover of German poet Friedrich Hölderlin
- May 21 - John Hookham Frere, diplomat and author
- September 14 - Alexander von Humboldt, explorer, natural philosopher and educator
- November 12 - Amelia Opie
[edit] Deaths
- February 26 - William Duncombe, author
- Edward Kimber, journal editor and novelist
[edit] References
- ^ Pierce, Patricia (2004). The Great Shakespeare Fraud: the Strange, True Story of William-Henry Ireland. Stroud: Sutton Publishing. ISBN 0750933933.
