1689 in literature

1689 in literature

The year 1689 in literature involved some significant events.

Events

*Jonathan Swift becomes secretary to Sir William Temple.

New books

*Sir Richard Cox - "Hibernia Anglicana"
*John Locke - "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding"
*John Selden - "Table Talk" - (published posthumously)
*Janez Vajkard Valvasor - "The Glory of the Duchy of Carniola (Die Ehre des Herzogtums Crain, Slava vojvodine Kranjske)'

New drama

*Aphra Behn - "The Widow Ranter"
*James Carlisle - "The Fortune Hunters, or Two Fools Well Met"
*John Crowne - "The English Friar, or the Town Sparks"
*James Farewell - "The Irish Hudibras"
*Sor Juana - "Amor es más labertino (Love the Greater Labyrinth)"
*Nathaniel Lee - "The Massacre of Paris"
*Thomas Shadwell - "The Amorous Bigotte"
** - "Bury Fair"

Births

* January 18 - Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu, French satirist (died 1755)
* May 26 - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (died 1762)
* July 9 - Alexis Piron, French epigrammatist (died 1773)
* August 19 - Samuel Richardson, English novelist (died 1761)

Deaths

*February 21 - Isaac Vossius, collector of manuscripts (born 1618)
*April 16 - Aphra Behn, the first British woman to support herself by writing (born 1640)
*August 21 - William Cleland, poet (born c.1661)
*"date unknown" - Pjetër Bogdani, early Albanian-language author (born c.1630)


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