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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1723.
Events
- March – Voltaire makes an agreement with Abraham Viret to allow his work to be printed in Rouen.[1]
- July – A new edition of Bernard Mandeville's The Fable of the Bees is presented as a public nuisance by the Grand Jury of Middlesex, England, to the Court of King's Bench. Mandeville escapes prosecution.[2]
- November – After attending a party at the home of the marquis des Maisons, Voltaire contracts smallpox.[3]
- unknown date – The book collection of Samuel Pepys (died 1703), including his Diary, is transferred to the Pepys Library at his alma mater, Magdalene College, Cambridge, in accordance with his will.[4]
New books
Fiction
- Penelope Aubin – The Life of Charlotta Du Pont, an English lady; taken from her own memoirs[5]
- Jane Barker – A Patch-Work Screen for the Ladies
- Thomas-Simon Gueullette – Les Aventures merveilleuses du mandarin Fum-Hoam, contes chinois (The Transmigrations of the Mandarin Fum-Hoam (Chinese Tales))
- Eliza Haywood – Idalia: Or, the Unfortunate Mistress. A Novel. Written by Mrs. Eliza Haywood[6]
- Anton Josef Kirchweger – Aurea Catena Homeri
- Margrethe Lasson – Den beklædte Sandhed (first novel in Danish)
- John Sheffield, Duke of Buckingham (died 1721) – The Works of John Sheffield, Earl of Mulgrave, Marquis of Normanby, and Duke of Buckingham
Drama
- Elijah Fenton – Mariamne[7]
- Francis Hawling – The Impertinent Lovers[7]
- Eliza Haywood – A Wife to be Lett[7]
- Ludvig Holberg – Erasmus Montanus[8]
- Hildebrand Jacob – The Fatal Constancy[7]
- Charles Johnson – Love in a Forest (adapted from As You Like It)[7]
- Pierre de Marivaux – La Double Inconstance[9]
- Ambrose Philips – Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester[7]
- Jane Robe – The Fatal Legacy[7]
- Richard Savage – Sir Thomas Overbury[7]
Poetry
- Sir Richard Blackmore – Alfred: an epick poem[10]
- Heyat Mahmud – Jangnama; Bengali[11]
- 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, Vol. 1
- Voltaire – La Henriade
- Ned Ward – Nuptial Dialogues and Debates, 3rd ed.
Non-fiction
- James Anderson – The Constitutions of the Free-Masons
- Henry Baker – An Invocation of Health: a poem
- Offspring Blackall, Bishop of Exeter (posthumously) – Collected Works
- Pietro Giannone – Storia civile del regno di Napoli (History of the Kingdom of Naples)
- Bernard de Mandeville – A Search into the Nature of Society
- Thomas Dempster (posthumous) – De Etruria regali libri VII (printed in sans-serif)
- Thomas Gordon and John Trenchard – Cato's Letters (essays)
- John Nott – The Cooks and Confectioners Dictionary or, the Accomplish'd Housewives Companion
Births
- January 21 (or June 21) – Baron d'Holbach, German-born French philosopher and encyclopedist (died 1789)
- February 23 – Richard Price, Welsh-born philosopher (died 1791)
- February 24 – John Burgoyne, English soldier and dramatist (died 1792)
- June 5 (baptized) – Adam Smith, Scottish economist (died 1790)[12]
- June 20 – Adam Ferguson, Scottish philosopher and historian (died 1816)
- July 11 – Jean-François Marmontel, French novelist and dramatist (died 1799)
- September 30 – William Hutton, English local historian and poet (died 1815)
- November 8 – John Byron, English vice-admiral and memoirist (died 1786)
- November 30 – William Livingston, American political writer and politician (died 1790)
- December 26 – Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm, German-born French philosopher and encyclopedist (died 1807)
Deaths
- February 26 – Thomas d'Urfey, English 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, French dramatist (born 1656)
- June 8 – Isaac Chayyim Cantarini, Italian poet, physician and preacher (born 1644)
- July 28 – Mariana Alcoforado, Portuguese nun (born 1640)
- August 21 – Dimitrie Cantemir, Romanian author (born 1673)
- September 23 – Jacques Basnage, French Protestant poet, linguist and preacher (born 1653)
- December 1 – Susanna Centlivre (Susanna Carroll), English dramatist (born c. 1667–70)
- December 17 – John Trenchard, English politician and writer (born 1662)
References
- ^ Ian Davidson (9 December 2010). Voltaire: A Life. Profile Books. p. 64. ISBN 1-84765-224-7.
- ^ Bernard Mandeville; E. J. Hundert (1997). The Fable of the Bees and Other Writings. Hackett Publishing. p. 10. ISBN 0-87220-374-3.
- ^ Glynn, Ian; Glynn, Jenifer (2004). The Life and Death of Smallpox. Cambridge University Press. p. 69. ISBN 9780521845427.
- ^ "History of the Pepys Building". Magdalene College. Retrieved 20 March 2018.
- ^ "The life of Charlotta Du Pont". National Library of Australia. printed for A. Bettesworth. 1723. Retrieved 20 March 2018.
- ^ Retrieved 19 February 2019.
- ^ a b c d e f g h William J. Burling (1992). A Checklist of New Plays and Entertainments on the London Stage, 1700-1737. Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. pp. 100–103. ISBN 978-0-8386-3451-6.
- ^ Extract. Retrieved 19 February 2019.
- ^ Marie-Hélène Maudoux (1 January 2011). La Double Inconstance de Marivaux (Fiche de lecture): Résumé complet et analyse détaillée de l'oeuvre (in French). Primento. p. 4. ISBN 978-2-8062-1785-1.
{{cite book}}:|website=ignored (help) - ^ James Perry (1822). A Catalog of the Curious and Extensive Library of the Late James Perry, Esq... W. Nicol. pp. 17–.
- ^ Wakil Ahmed (2012). "Heyat Mamud". In Sirajul Islam; Miah, Sajahan; Khanam, Mahfuza; Ahmed, Sabbir (eds.). Banglapedia: the National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh (Online ed.). Dhaka, Bangladesh: Banglapedia Trust, Asiatic Society of Bangladesh. ISBN 984-32-0576-6. OCLC 52727562. OL 30677644M. Retrieved 11 November 2024.
- ^ "Adam Smith (1723–1790)". BBC. Retrieved 20 March 2018.