1743 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1743.
Events
- March â Robert Dodsley advertises in the London Evening Post his plans to publish rare 16th and 17th-century plays so as to avoid them being lost.[1]
- July 5 â A benefit performance for the elderly acting couple Henry and Elizabeth Wetherilt is held at Smock Alley Theatre in Dublin.[2]
- August â Shortly after the death of Richard Savage, Samuel Johnson announces his intention to publish a biography of Savage.[3]
- unknown dates
- Johann Elias Schlegel becomes secretary to an ambassador at the Danish court.[4]
- A legal deposit law requires a copy of every book printed in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany to be deposited in the Magliabechiana library in Florence.[5]
New books
Fiction
- Comte de Caylus â les Contes orientaux
- William Rufus Chetwood â The Twins (prose fiction)
- Henry Fielding â The Life of Jonathan Wild the Great in Miscellanies, with A Journey from This World to the Next
- Eliza Haywood â Memoirs of an Unfortunate Young Nobleman[6]
- Aaron Hill â The Fanciad
- Marguerite de Lubert â La Princesse Camion (Princess Camion)
- Benjamin Martin â A Course of Lectures in Natural and Experimental Philosophy, Geography, and Astronomy[7]
- Diego de Torres Villarroel â Vida
Drama
- Thomas Cooke â Love the Cause and Cure of Grief
- Charles Simon Favart â Le Coq du village[8]
- Henry Fielding â The Wedding-Day
- John Gay â The Distress'd Wife
- Voltaire â Mérope[9]
- William Shakespeare (ed. Thomas Hanmer) â The Works of Shakespear
Poetry
- Robert Blair â The Grave[10]
- Samuel Boyse â Albion's Triumph
- James Bramston (attributed) â The Crooked Six-pence
- William Collins â Verses Humbly Address'd to Sir Thomas Hanmer (related to Hanmer's edition of The Works of Shakespear)
- Philip Francis â The Odes, Epodes, and Carmen Seculare of Horace
- David Mallet â Poems on Several Occasions
- Alexander Pope â The New Dunciad (revised version)
Non-fiction
- Henry Baker â The Microscope Made Easy
- Henry St. John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke â Remarks on the History of England (from The Craftsman)
- John Brown â Honour
- Colley Cibber
- The Egotist; or, Colley Upon Cibber (many deprecations on Alexander Pope)
- A Second Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope
- Thomas Cooke â An Epistle to the Countess of Shaftesbury
- Manuel da Assumpção â Vocabolario em idioma Bengalla, e Portuguez (Vocabulary of the Bengali Language and Portuguese)
- Philip Doddridge â The Principles of the Christian Religion
- Enrique Flórez â Clave historial con que se abre la puerta a la historia eclesiástica y polÃtica (Clavis Historiae)
- Eliza Haywood â A Present for a Servant-Maid (conduct book for female servants, in the light of Richardson's Pamela)
- Richard Pococke â A Description of the East & Some Other Countries[11]
- William Stukeley â Abury: A temple of the British Druids
- Diego de Torres Villarroel â Vida, ascendencia, nacimiento, crianza y aventuras del Doctor Don Diego de Torres Villarroel[12]
- William Whitehead â An Essay on Ridicule[13]
Births
- January 25 â Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, German philosopher (died 1819)
- February 14 â Jane Bowdler, English poet and essayist (died 1784)
- March 4 â Johann David Wyss, Swiss novelist writing in German (died 1818)
- March 14 â Hannah Cowley, English dramatist and poet (died 1809)
- April 13 â Thomas Jefferson, American revolutionary and president (died 1826
- June 20 â Anna Laetitia Barbauld, English poet (died 1825)
- July 14 â Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin, Russian lyric poet (died 1816)
- July 30 â Philip Yorke, Welsh antiquary and genealogist (died 1804)
- August 17 â Julien Louis Geoffroy, French critic (died 1814)[14]
Deaths
- April 4
- Robert Ainsworth, English lexicographer (born 1660)
- Daniel Neal, English historian (born 1678)[15]
- April 29 â Charles-Irénée Castel de Saint-Pierre, French writer and thinker (born 1658)
- May 6 â Andrew Michael Ramsay, Scottish biographer (born 1686)[16]
- August 1 â Richard Savage, English poet (born c. 1697)[3]
- October 5 â Henry Carey, English poet, songwriter and dramatist, suicide (born 1687)
- October 15 â John Ozell, English translator (year of birth not known)[17]
- December 22 â James Bramston, English satirical poet (born c. 1694)