1723 in literature

1723 in literature

The year 1723 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

* Voltaire contracts smallpox.
* The book collection of Samuel Pepys is transferred to the Pepys Library at Magdalene College, Cambridge.
* The majority of Louis XV of France.

New books

* Anonymous - *"Elegy on the deplorable Death of Elizabeth Murray Sister to Sir William Murray of Newtoun barb'rously murdered by her Husband Thomas Kincaid younger of Gogar-Mains, March 29th 1723" (broadsheet)
** - "Anderson's Constitutions of the Freemasons"
* Penelope Aubin - "The Life of Charlotta Du Pont, an English lady; taken from her own memoirs"
* Henry Baker - "An Invocation of Health"
* Jane Barker - "A Patch-Work Screen for the Ladies" (fiction)
* Arthur Blackamore - "Luck at Last"
* Richard Blackmore - "Alfred"
* Eliza Haywood - "Idalia"
* Thomas Gordon and John Trenchard - "Cato's Letters"
* David Mallet - "William and Margaret"
* Bernard de Mandeville - "A Search into the Nature of Society"
* William Meston - "Knight of the Kirk"
* Ambrose Philips - "Ode on the Death of William, Earl of Cowper"
* Matthew Prior - "Down-Hall"
** - "The Turtle and the Sparrow"
* Allan Ramsay - "The Tea-Table Miscellany" i.
* John Sheffield, Duke of Buckingham - "Works"
* Ned Ward - "Nuptial Dialogues and Debates"

New drama

* Susanna Centlivre - "The Artifice"
* Elijah Fenton - "Marianne"
* Eliza Haywood - "A Wife to be Let"
* Charles Johnson - "Love in a Forest" (adapted from "As You Like It")
* Pierre de Marivaux - "La Double Inconstance"
* Ambrose Philips - "Humfrey, Duke of Floucester"
* Richard Steele - "The Conscious Lovers"

Births

* January 21 (or June 21) - Baron d'Holbach - philosopher, encyclopedist (died 1789)
* February 23 - Richard Price, philosopher (died 1791)
* February 24 - John Burgoyne, soldier and dramatist (died 1792)
* June 20 - Adam Ferguson, philosopher and historian (died 1816)
* July 11 - Jean-François Marmontel, French novelist and dramatist (died 1799)
* July 17 - Adam Smith - Scottish economist (died 1790)
* September 30 - William Hutton (historian), local historian
* November 8 - John Byron, English vice-admiral, grandfather of the poet Lord Byron (died 1786)
* November 30 - William Livingston, American politician and journalist (died 1790)
* December 26 - Friedrich Melchior, baron von Grimm (died 1807)

Deaths

* February 26 - Thomas D'Urfey, dramatist (born 1653)
* March 15 - Johann Christian Günther, German poet (born 1695)
* May 11 - Jean Galbert de Campistron, dramatist (born 1656)
* December 1 - Susannah Centlivre, dramatist (born 1669)
* "date unknown" - Dimitrie Cantemir, first author in the Romanian language (born 1673)
* "date unknown" - Marianna Alcoforado, author of "Letters of a Portuguese Nun" (born 1640)


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