1741 in literature

1741 in literature

The year 1741 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

*David Garrick packs theatres with his performance as Shakespeare's "Richard III".
* The "American Magazine" begins publication by Andrew Bedford.

New books

* Anonymous - "The Life of Pamela" (pirate edition of Richardson's Pamela)
** - "Pamela Censured"
* Thomas Betterton - "The History of the English Stage, from the Restoration to the Present"
* Geoffrey Chaucer - "The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer" (revives interest in Chaucer's tales)
* Stephen Duck - "Every Man in his Own Way"
* Henry Fielding (as "Mr. Conny Keyber") - "An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews"
* Thomas Francklin - "Of the Nature of the Gods"
* Eliza Haywood - "Anti-Pamela"
* Ludvig Holberg - "Niels Klim's Underground Travels"
* David Hume - "Essays Moral and Political"
* John Kelly - "Pamela's Conduct in High Life" (pirate continuation of "Pamela")
* Robert Craggs Nugent - "An Ode to Mankind"
* Alexander Pope with John Gay and John Arbuthnot - "Memoirs of the Extraordinary Life, Works, and Discoveries of Martinus Scriblerus"
* Charles Povey - "The Virgin in Eden" (prose fiction)
* Samuel Richardson - "Letters Written to and for Particular Friends" (aka "Familiar Letters")
** - "Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded" vols. iii - iv
* William Shenstone - "The Judgment of Hercules"
* Jonathan Swift - "Dean Swift's Literary Correspondence" (pirate publication by Edmund Curll, for which he was sued by Pope)
** - "Some Free Thoughts on the Present State of Affairs"
* Isaac Watts - "The Improvement of the Mind"
* Leonard Welsted - "The Summum Bonum"
* John and Charles Wesley - "A Collection of Psalms and Hymns"
* George Whitefield - "A Letter to the Reverend John Wesley"
* Edward Young - "Poetical Works of the Reverend Edward Young"
* Hristofor Zhefarovich - "Stemmatographia"

Newly published drama

* Anonymous - "Pamela; or, Virtue Triumphant"
* Robert Dodsley - "The Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green" (adapted from the anonymous Elizabethan play)
* David Garrick - "The Lying Valet"
* John Kelly - "The Levee"

Plays

* Voltaire - "Mahomet"

Births

* January 16 - Hester Thrale, friend and correspondent of Samuel Johnson (died 1821)
* October 4 - Edmond Malone, Shakespearean editor (died 1812)
* October 18 - Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, French author (died 1803)
** Henry Fuseli, painter

Deaths

*March 17 - Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, poet (born 1671)
*April 10 - Celia Fiennes, travel writer (born 1662)
*December 14 - Charles Rollin, historian (born 1661)
*"date unknown"
**Thomas Emlyn, preacher and writer
**Bernard de Montfaucon, antiquary
** Jethro Tull, inventor


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