1747 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1747.
Events
- March 31 – Laurence Sterne preaches the Good Friday sermon at St Helen Stonegate; The Case of Elijah and the Widow of Zerephath is later printed and published.[1]
- April 9 – David Garrick becomes joint patentee and manager of the Drury Lane Theatre in London.[2]
- June 21 – Licensing Act transfers responsibility for pre-production censorship of plays in Britain from the Master of the Revels to the Lord Chamberlain and restricts serious drama to the patent theatres.
- December 1 – Samuel Richardson's two-volume epistolary novel Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady ("by the Editor of Pamela") begins publication in London from his own print shop, dated 1748.[3]
- unknown date – The Załuski Library in Warsaw is opened to the public.[4]
New books
Prose
- William Blackstone (attributed) – The Pantheon
- Thomas Carte – A General History of England
- Juan de Iriarte – Discurso sobre la imperfección de los diccionarios[5]
- Diego de Torres Villarroel – Desengaños razonables para sacudir el polvo del espanto
- La Promenade du sceptique (completed; not published until 1830)
- William Dunkin – Boetia
- Thomas Edward – A Supplement to Mr. Warburton's Edition of Shakespear
- Henry Fielding, as "John Trott Plaid" – The Jacobite's Journal (periodical)
- Sarah Fielding – Familiar Letters Between the Principal Characters in David Simple (a defense against unauthorized continuations)
- Samuel Foote – The Roman and English Comedy Consider'd
- Hannah Glasse, as "A Lady" – The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy[6]
- Madame de Graffigny – Letters from a Peruvian Woman
- Henry Home, Lord Kames – Essays Upon Several Subjects Concerning British Antiquities
- Samuel Johnson – The Plan of a Dictionary of the English Language
- Charlotte Lennox – Poems
- David Mallet – Amyntor and Theodora
- William Mason – Musaeus: A monody to the memory of Pope (an imitation of Milton's Lycidas)
- William Memoth, the younger – The Letters of Pliny the Consul
- Josiah Ralph – A Miscellany
- Samuel Richardson – Clarissa vol. i–ii
- William Shakespeare – The Works of Shakespear (edited by William Warburton)
- Tobias Smollett – Reproof
- Joseph Spence – Polymetis[7]
- Voltaire – Zadig (in original form as Memnon)
- Horace Walpole – A Letter to the Whigs
- Joseph Warton – Ranelagh House
- Thomas Warton – The Pleasures of Melancholy
Drama
- John Cunningham – Love in a Mist
- Samuel Foote – The Diversions of the Morning or, A Dish of Chocolate[8]
- David Garrick – Miss in Her Teens
- Christian Fürchtegott Gellert – Die zärtlichen Schwestern (The Affectionate Sisters)[9]
- Carlo Goldoni – The Venetian Twins (I due gemelli veneziani)[10]
- Benjamin Hoadly – The Suspicious Husband[11]
- Edward Moore – The Foundling
- Takeda Izumo II, Miyoshi Shōraku and Namiki Senryū I – Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜, Yoshitsune and the Thousand Cherry Trees, original version for bunrakupuppet theatre)
Poetry
- Philip Francis – A Poetical Translation of the Works of Horace
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu– Six Town Eclogues
Births
- François Alexandre Frédéric, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, French economics writer (died 1827)
- January 12 – Susanna Blamire, English dialect poet and songwriter (died 1794)[12]
- January 15 – John Aikin, English biographer, activist and physician (died 1822)[13]
- January 26 – Samuel Parr, English schoolmaster and writer, "the Whig Johnson" (died 1825)[14]
- January – William Seward, English man of letters (died 1799)
- February 19 – John "Walking" Stewart, English traveller and philosopher (died 1822)
- March 10 – Iolo Morganwg, Welsh antiquarian, bookseller, poet and literary forger (died 1826)[15]
- September 30 – John Mastin, English memoirist, local historian and cleric (died 1829)
- December 12 – Anna Seward, English poet (died 1809)[16]
- Unknown date
- John Edwards (1747–1792), Welsh poet (died 1792)[17]
- Thomas Scott, English cleric and religious writer (died 1821)
Deaths
- January 16 – Barthold Heinrich Brockes German poet (born 1680)[18]
- May 28 – Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues, essayist (born 1715)[19]
- August
- Charles Fleetwood, manager of Drury Lane Theatre (year of birth unknown)[20]
- Leonard Welsted, English poet (born 1688)[21]
- September 7 – Michel Maittaire, French classical scholar, bibliographer and grammarian (born 1668)[22]
- November 21 – Robert Mylne, Scottish antiquarian and writer (born 1643)[24]
- November 22 – Joseph Trapp, poet, controversialist and translator (born 1679)
- December 23 – Étienne-François Avisse, French dramatist (born 1694)[25]
References
- ^ St Helen Stonegate: Laurence Sterne and the Good Humour Club Archived 2016-04-14 at the Wayback Machine. Accessed 27 March 2016.
- ^ Dougald MacMillan (1938). Drury Lane Calendar, 1747-1776. Clarendon Press. p. xi.
- ISBN 978-0-521-60440-6.
- ISBN 978-1-85041-001-0.
- ^ Guillermo Díaz-Plaja (1967). Historia general de las literaturas hispánicas: Siglos XVIII y XIX. 2 v (in Spanish). Editorial Vergara. p. 60.
- ^ Prince, Rose (24 June 2006). "Hannah Glasse: The original domestic goddess". The Independent. Archived from the original on June 7, 2010. Retrieved 22 March 2015.
- ISBN 978-0-7190-0772-9.
- ISBN 978-0-7190-0858-0.
- ISBN 978-94-017-4699-1.
- ISBN 978-1-317-61337-4.
- ^ Edward A. Langhans; Kalman A. Burnim; Philip H. Highfill (1982). A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. p. 187.
- ^ Henry Lonsdale (1873). William Wardsworth, Susanna Blamire, Thomas Tickell, Jane Christian Blamire, the Loshes of Woodside, Dr. Thomas Addison, Hugh Lee Pattison. George Routledge & sons. p. 46.
- ISBN 978-0-8203-1528-7.
- ^ The first edition of this text is available at Wikisource: Stephen, Leslie (1885–1900). . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- ^ "Iolo Morganwg, 1747-1826". Archives Wales. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 8 October 2021.
- ISBN 978-0-8018-6640-1.
- ^ Griffith John Williams. "Edwards, John (Siôn Ceiriog; 1747-1792), bard and orator". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 30 June 2020.
- ^ German Baroque Writers, 1661-1730. Gale Research. 1996. p. 62.
- ISBN 978-0-7190-0588-6.
- . Retrieved 24 March 2015.
- ISBN 978-0-7734-0049-8
- ^ . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
- ^ Charles F. Partington (1838). The British Cyclopedia of Biography. p. 188.
- ^ . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
- ^ Nouvelle biographie générale: depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu'à nous jours (in French). Firmin-Didot frères. 1861. p. 871.