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Overview of the events of 1739 in literature
Overview of the events of 1739 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1739 .
Events
January 16 – George Frideric Handel 's oratorio Saul is first performed at the King's Theatre, Haymarket, London .[1]
February 9 – The Scots Magazine first appears.[2]
February 17 – George Whitefield first preaches in the open air, to miners at Kingswood, South Gloucestershire , England.[3]
March 16 – Henry Brooke 's drama Gustavus Vasa becomes the first play banned under the Licensing Act 1737 .[4]
April – John Wesley first preaches in the open air, at Whitefield's invitation.[5]
November – The Champion (periodical) is launched, with Henry Fielding (under the name Captain Hercules Vinegar) as editor.[6]
unknown date – The first Bible in the Estonian language , Piibli Ramat , translated by Anton thor Helle , is published.[7]
New books
Prose
Penelope Aubin – A Collection of Entertaining Histories and Novels [8]
John Campbell – The Travels and Adventures of Edward Bevan, Esq., formerly a merchant in London
Elizabeth Carter
Examination of Mr. Pope's Essay on Man (translation of De Crousaz 's Examen de l'essai de Monsieur Pope sur l'homme )
Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophy Explain'd for the Use of Ladies (translation of Algarotti 's Newtonianismo per le donne )
Philip Doddridge – The Family Expositor
Richard Glover – London
David Hume (anonymously) – A Treatise of Human Nature (issued late 1738 but dated this year)
William Law – The Grounds and Reasons of Christian Regeneration
John Mottley (as Elijah Jenkins) – Joe Miller 's Jests; or, the Wits Vade-Mecum
Robert Nugent (attributed) – An Epistle to Sir Robert Walpole [9]
John Oldmixon – The History of England during the Reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI, Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth [10]
Laetitia Pilkington – The Statues
Samuel Richardson – Aesop's Fables
Elizabeth Singer Rowe – Miscellaneous Works
Thomas Sheridan – The Satires of Juvenal Translated
Joseph Trapp – The Nature, Folly, Sin, and Danger, of Being Righteous Over-much (against George Whitefield )
Voltaire
De la Gloire, ou entretien avec un Chinois
Conseils a M. Helvetius
Isaac Watts – The World to Come
George Whitefield – A Continuation of the Reverend Mr. Whitefield's Journal
Paul Whitehead – Manners
Drama
Poetry
Births
Deaths
References
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^ Ward, A. W. (2009). The Cambridge History of English Literature . Vol. 9. p. 614.
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^ Penelope Aubin (1739). A Collection of Entertaining Histories and Novels... D. Midwinter, A. Bettesworth and C Hitch, J. and J. Pemberton, R. Ware, C. Rivington, A. Ward, J. and P. Knapton, T. Longman, R. Hett, S. Austen, and J. Wood.
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^ James Thomson (1739). Edward and Eleonora: A Tragedy. As it was to Have Been Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden . author, and sold.
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^ Charles Anderton Read (1879). The cabinet of Irish literature, with biogr. sketches and literary notices by C.A. Read (T.P. O'Connor) . p. 289.
^ Catholic Encyclopedia . Appleton. 1910. p. 721.
^ George Ripley; Charles Anderson Dana (1863). The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge . D. Appleton. pp. 512 .
^ George Lillo; Thomas Davies (1810). Mr. Lillo's Life. Silvia; or The Country Burial, an opera. George Barnwall, a tragedy. The Life of Scanderbeg. The Christian Hero, a tragedy . W. Lowndes. p. 32.
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