1724 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1724.
Events
- January â Andrew Michael Ramsay goes to Rome to tutor the two sons of James Francis Edward Stuart, Jacobite pretender to the British throne.[1]
- August â Thomas Longman establishes the Longman publishing house in London.[2]
- November 16 â 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) â A Narrative of All the Robberies, Escapes, &c. of John Sheppard
- Gilbert Burnet (died 1715) â Bishop Burnet's History of His Own Time, Vol. I[citation needed]
- Samuel Clarke â Sermons of Samuel Clarke[citation needed]
- Anthony Collins â Discourse of the Grounds and Reasons of the Christian Religion with An Apology for Free Debate and Liberty of Writing
- Mary Davys â The Reform'd Coquet (novella)[4]
- Daniel Defoe
- Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress[5]
- A New Voyage Round the World
- A Tour thro' the Whole Island of Great Britain
- John Dennis â 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. â Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle
- Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon (died 1674) â An Appendix to the History of the Grand Rebellion
- Captain Charles Johnson (attributed to Daniel Defoe or Nathaniel Mist) â A General History of the Pyrates
- William Law â Remarks Upon a Late Book (against Mandeville)
- John Oldmixon â The Critical History of England, Ecclesiastical and Civil
- Paul de Rapin â 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 â 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 â Caesar in Egypt[6]
- John Gay â The Captives[7]
- Ludvig Holberg â Henrich og Pernille (Henrik and Pernille)[8]
- Robert Hurst â The Roman Maid[7]
- George Jeffreys â Edwin
- Pierre de Marivaux â La Fausse Suivante[9]
- William Phillips â Belisarius
- John Rich â The Necromancer; or, History of Dr. Faustus[10]
Poetry
- Matthew Concanen â Miscellaneous Poems
- Eliza Haywood â Poems on Several Occasions
- Allan Ramsay
- The Ever Green: Being a collection of Scots Poems
- Health
- Elizabeth Tollet â Poems on Several Occasions
- Voltaire â La Henriade
- Leonard Welsted â Epistles, Odes, &c.
- See also 1724 in poetry
Births
- January 12 â Frances Brooke, English novelist and dramatist (died 1789)
- March 20 â Duncan Ban MacIntyre, Scottish Gaelic poet (died 1812)
- April 22 â Immanuel Kant German philosopher (died 1804)
- June 4 â William Gilpin, English writer, painter and originator of "picturesque" (died 1804)
- July 2 â Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, German poet (died 1803)[11]
- July 26 â Ji Yun (纪æ), Chinese poet and scholar (died 1805)
- July 31 â Noël François de Wailly, French grammarian and lexicographer (died 1801)
- October 31 â Christopher Anstey, English writer and poet (died 1805)[12]
- December 13 â Franz Aepinus, German natural philosopher (died 1802)
- Unknown dates
- Samuel Derrick, Irish writer (died 1769)[13]
- Frances Sheridan (Frances Chamberlaine), Irish novelist and dramatist (died 1766)[14]
Deaths
- January 1 â Charles Gildon, English critic and dramatist (born c. 1665)
- January 15 â George Wheler, English travel writer (born 1651)[15]
- February 5 â Mary Cowper, English diarist (born 1685)
- February 12 â Elkanah Settle, English poet and dramatist (born 1648)[16]
- March 19 â Johann Christian Thomae, German historian and biographer (born 1668)[17]
- July 11 â Delarivier Manley, writer, playwright and pamphleteer (born c. 1663)[18]
- August 15 â Manko, Japanese poet (year of birth not known)
- October 6 â Charles Rivière Dufresny, French dramatist (born 1648)[19]
- October 29 â William Wollaston, English philosophical writer (born 1659)[20]
- November 29 â Laurence Braddon, English writer and politician (year of birth not known)
- November â Liam an Dúna Mac Cairteáin, Irish poet and soldier (b. 1668)
- probable â Proinsias à Doibhlin, Irish poet and priest (year of birth not known)
