1709 in literature

1709 in literature

The year 1709 in literature involved some significant events.

Events

* The British Parliament passes the Statute of Anne, the first modern copyright act.
* Alexander Selkirk, the original "Robinson Crusoe", returns to civilisation.
* The "Tatler" is founded by Richard Steele.

New books

* Various - "The Female Tatler"
* Anonymous - "Memoirs of the Life and Adventures of Signor Rozelli"
* Mary Astell - "Bart'lemy Fair"
* Thomas Baker -"Reflections on Learning, showing the Insufficiency thereof in its several particulars, in order to evince the usefulness and necessity of Revelation", vol. 1
* George Berkeley - "An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision"
* Richard Blackmore - "Instructions to Vander Beck"
* Samuel Cobb - "The Female Reign"
* Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury - " _la. Sensus Communis" (philosophy)
* Daniel Defoe - "The History of the Union of Great Britain"
* Charles Gildon - "The Golden Spy" (satire)
* White Kennett - "A Vindication of the Church and Clergy of England"
* William King - "Miscellanies in Prose and Verse"
* John Lawson - "A New Voyage to Carolina"
* Delarivière Manley - "The New Atalantis"
* William Shakespeare - "The Works of Mr William Shakespear" (edited by Nicholas Rowe, the first edition with scene divisions)
* John Strype - "Annals of the Reformation and Establishment of Religion"
* Jonathan Swift - "A Famous Prediction of Merlin"
**"A Project for the Advancement of Religion and the Reformation of Manners" ("By a Person of Quality")
**"A Vindication of Isaac Bickerstaff"
* William Temple - "Memoirs: Part III" (ed. Jonathan Swift)
* John Trenchard -"The Natural History of Superstition"

New drama

* Anthony Aston - "Love in a Hurry"
* Susanna Centlivre - "The Busie Body"
** - "The Man's Bewitch'd"
* Colley Cibber - "The Rival Fools"
* Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon - "Electre"
* John Dennis - "Appius and Virginia"
* Thomas d'Urfey - "The Modern Prophets"
* Juan Claudio de la Hoz y Mota - "José, salvador de Egipto"
* Charles Johnson - "Love and Liberty" (not performed)
* Alain-René Lesage - "Turcaret"
* Mary Pix - "The Adventures in Madrid"

Poetry

* John Reynolds - "Death's Vision Represented in a Philosophical Sacred Poem"
* "Poetical Miscellanies: The Sixth Part" (aka "Tonson's Miscllanies")

Births

*April 14 - Charles Collé, dramatists
*August 7 - Jean-Jacques Lefranc, marquis de Pompignan, French poet (died 1784)
*August 29 - Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset, poet and dramatist (died 1777)
* September 18 - Samuel Johnson (died 1784)
* December 25 - Julien Offray de La Mettrie, French author (died 1751)
* "unknown date"
**John Armstrong, poet
**Richard Burn, legal writer
**John Cleland, controversial English novelist (died 1789)
** John Banks
*"probable"
**James Adair, historian

Deaths

*February 15 - John Philips, poet (born 1676)
*June 30 - Edward Lhuyd, naturalist (born 1660)
*July 8 - Gustaf Adlerfelt, historian (born 1671)
*December 8 - Thomas Corneille, dramatist (born 1625)
*"date unknown"
**Robert Gould, poet (born c.1660)
**Mary Pix, dramatist (born 1666)


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