1724 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1724.
Events
- January – Andrew Michael Ramsay goes to Rome to tutor the two sons of James Francis Edward Stuart, Jacobite pretender to the British throne.[1]
- August – Thomas Longman establishes the Longman publishing house in London.[2]
- November 16 – An "autobiographical" Narrative of the life of notorious criminal Jack Sheppard, said to be by Daniel Defoe, goes on sale at Sheppard's execution at Tyburn.[3]
New books
Prose
- Anonymous (attributed to Daniel Defoe) – A Narrative of All the Robberies, Escapes, &c. of John Sheppard
- Gilbert Burnet (died 1715) – Bishop Burnet's History of His Own Time, Vol. I
- Samuel Clarke – Sermons of Samuel Clarke
- Anthony Collins – Discourse of the Grounds and Reasons of the Christian Religion with An Apology for Free Debate and Liberty of Writing
- Mary Davys – The Reform'd Coquet (fiction)
- Daniel Defoe
- Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress
- A New Voyage Round the World
- A tour thro' the whole island of Great Britain
- John Dennis – Vice and Luxury Publick Mischiefs (on Mandeville)
- Richard Fiddes
- A General Treatise of Morality (on Mandeville)
- The Life of Cardinal Wolsey
- Eliza Haywood
- La Belle Assemblé
- The Fatal Secret (fiction)
- Lasselia
- The Masqueraders
- Thomas Hearne, ed. – Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle
- Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon (died 1674) – An Appendix to the History of the Grand Rebellion
- Captain Charles Johnson (attributed to Daniel Defoe or Nathaniel Mist) – A General History of the Pyrates
- William Law – Remarks Upon a Late Book (against Mandeville)
- John Oldmixon – The Critical History of England, Ecclesiastical and Civil
- Paul de Rapin – L'Histoire d'Angleterre
- Jonathan Swift
- A Letter to the Shop-keepers... of Ireland (as M. B. Drapier)
- A Letter to Mr. Harding the Printer (as Drapier)
- Some Observations Upon a Paper Relating to Wood's Half-pence (as Drapier)
- A Letter to the Whole People of Ireland (Drapier)
- A Letter to the Right Honourable the Lord Viscount Molesworth (last of the Drapier letters)
- Seasonable Advice
- Isaac Watts – Logic, or The Right Use of Reason in the Enquiry After Truth With a Variety of Rules to Guard Against Error in the Affairs of Religion and Human Life, as well as in the Sciences
Drama
- Colley Cibber – Caesar in Egypt[4]
- John Gay – The Captives[5]
- Ludvig Holberg – Henrich og Pernille (Henrik and Pernille)[6]
- Robert Hurst – The Roman Maid[5]
- George Jeffreys – Edwin
- Pierre de Marivaux – La Fausse Suivante[7]
- William Phillips – Belisarius
- John Rich – The Necromancer; or, History of Dr. Faustus[8]
Poetry
- Matthew Concanen – Miscellaneous Poems
- Eliza Haywood – Poems on Several Occasions
- Allan Ramsay
- The Ever Green: Being a collection of Scots Poems
- Health
- Elizabeth Tollet – Poems on Several Occasions
- Voltaire – La Henriade
- Leonard Welsted – Epistles, Odes, &c.
- See also 1724 in poetry
Births
- January 12 – Frances Brooke, English novelist and dramatist (died 1789)
- March 20 – Duncan Ban MacIntyre, Scottish Gaelic poet (died 1812)
- April 22 – Immanuel Kant German philosopher (died 1804)
- June 4 – William Gilpin, English writer, painter and originator of "picturesque" (died 1804)
- July 2 – Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, German poet (died 1803)
- July 26 – Ji Yun (纪昀), Chinese poet and scholar (died 1805)
- October 31 – Christopher Anstey, English writer and poet (died 1805)
- December 13 – Franz Aepinus, German natural philosopher (died 1802)
- Unknown dates
- Samuel Derrick, Irish writer (died 1769)[9]
- Frances Sheridan (Frances Chamberlaine), Irish novelist and dramatist (died 1766)[10]
Deaths
- January 1 – Charles Gildon, English critic and dramatist (born c. 1665)
- February 5 – Mary Cowper, English diarist (born 1685)
- February 12 – Elkanah Settle, English poet and dramatist (born 1648)
- July 11 – Delarivier Manley, writer, playwright and pamphleteer (born c. 1663)
- October 6 – Charles Rivière Dufresny, French dramatist (born 1648)
- October 29 – William Wollaston, English philosophical writer (born 1659)
- November 29 – Laurence Braddon, English writer and politician (year of birth not known)
References
- ^ Cherel, Albert: "André Michel Ramsay – Sa vie" – Chapter II of Fénelon au XVIIIe siècle en France. Paris: Librairie Hachette, 1917.
- ^ Charles James Longman (1936). The House of Longman, 1724-1800: A Bibliographical History with a List of Signs Used by Booksellers of that Period. Longmans, Green and Company. p. 3.
- ^ Philip Rawlings (24 October 2005). Drunks, Whores and Idle Apprentices: Criminal Biographies of the Eighteenth Century. Routledge. p. 38. ISBN 978-1-134-94252-7.
- ^ Pierre Danchin (1 January 1993). The prologues and epilogues of the eighteenth century. Presses universitaires de Nancy. pp. 164–167. ISBN 978-2-86480-168-9.
- ^ a b Allardyce Nicoll (1927). A History of Early Eighteenth Century Drama: 1700-1750. CUP Archive. p. 31.
- ^ Frank Northen Magill (1986). Critical Survey of Drama: Authors. Salem Press. p. 944. ISBN 978-0-89356-385-1.
- ^ Christie McDonald; Susan Rubin Suleiman (2011). French Global: A New Approach to Literary History. Columbia University Press. p. 363. ISBN 978-0-231-14741-5.
- ^ Caroline Eck; James McAllister; Renée van de Vall (11 May 1995). The Question of Style in Philosophy and the Arts. Cambridge University Press. p. 69. ISBN 978-0-521-47341-5.
- ^ James Boswell (1899). The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides. John W. Lovell Company. p. 106.
- ^ Frances Chamberlaine Sheridan (1984). The Plays of Frances Sheridan. University of Delaware Press. p. 13. ISBN 978-0-87413-243-4.