1749 in literature information

publications of 1749. February – The second part of John Cleland's erotic novel Fanny Hill (Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure) appears in London. He is released...

Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1749. 1749 (MDCCXLIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting...

Understanding – David Hume 1749 in literature – The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling – Henry Fielding 1750 in literature – The Rambler essays (to 1752)...

the most famous poet. In 1784, with Elegiac Sonnets, Charlotte Smith (1749–1806) reintroduced the sonnet to English literature.[citation needed] The early...

place on 29 June 1749, but plans were leaked to the order before it began; the plotters were arrested and most were later executed. In the mid-18th century...

The year 1749 in science and technology involved some significant events. Pierre Bouguer publishes La figure de la terre in Paris, describing some of the...

virtù dei strali d'Amore Dalinda, singer in Mandragora (band) Dalinda, novel by Eliza Haywood from 1749 in literature "Dalinda", mixed English-Spanish song...

concert at and for the Foundling Hospital in London at which the Foundling Hospital Anthem is premiered. 1749–1750 – Bach revises his The Art of Fugue...

les revenans de Hongrie, de Moravie, &c. Catharine Trotter Cockburn (died 1749) – The Works of Mrs. Catharine Cockburn John Gilbert Cooper – Cursory Remarks...

2013). Towards the Romantic Age: Essays on Sentimental and Preromantic Literature in Russia. Springer. p. 44. ISBN 978-94-017-4699-1. Judith Chaffee; Oliver...

printed in Josiah Gilbert Holland's History of Western Massachusetts in 1855. Burt, Daniel S. (2004). The Chronology of American Literature: America's...

Literature & General Information. Encyclopædia Britannica. p. 28. Lorrayne Y. Baird-Lange; Thomas A. Copeland (1989). Women in History, Literature, and...

(厲鶚), Chinese poet (born 1692) Augustan literature Poetical Works p. 443. John Ripley (1998). Coriolanus on Stage in England and America, 1609-1994. Fairleigh...

April 12 – The Radcliffe Camera in Oxford, England, designed by James Gibbs, is opened as a library. Mathematical Bridge at Queens' College, Cambridge...

is mostly written by Samuel Johnson. March 5 – Shakespeare's Richard II (in Colley Cibber's version) is presented at their theatre on Nassau Street (Manhattan)...

Massachusetts to Nova Scotia, Canada, begins the earliest recorded diary by a woman in North America. February 1 – Christopher Smart makes his last contribution...

Channel Islands. This article covers British literature in the English language. Anglo-Saxon (Old English) literature is included, and there is some discussion...

(13 June 2013). Friendship and Allegiance in Eighteenth-Century Literature: The Politics of Private Virtue in the Age of Walpole. Springer. p. 126....

Literature of the 18th century refers to world literature produced during the years 1700–1799. European literature of the 18th century refers to literature...

Beginning of the Seven Years' War in Europe. June 20 – The Black Hole of Calcutta incident inspires renewed British efforts in India. October 29 – Frances Abington...

Catherine Laura Johnstone.]) (1865). The progress of science, art, and literature in Russia, by F.R. Grahame. James Blackwood & Company. p. 28. Paul Baines...

Peg Woffington, playing Rosalind in As You Like It, suffers a stroke on stage at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden in London and never acts again. May...

LEXICOGRAPHER. A writer of dictionaries; a harmless drudge that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words. —Self-deprecating...

and the Seven Years' War in Nova Scotia and Acadia, French colonists offered payments to Indians for British scalps. In 1749, British governor Edward...

publications of 1741. January 15 – The revival in the London theatre of Shakespeare plays featuring actresses in travesti roles continues at the Theatre Royal...

Samuel Johnson begins publishing a series of essays, The Idler (1758–1760), in the Universal Chronicle. April 24 – Robert Dodsley and his brother James sign...

in Bombay to return to Britain. November 6 – Samuel Richardson's epistolary novel Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded is published anonymously in London in two...

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Samuel Boyse, Deity Moses Browne, Poems...

Rex (24 September 1987). The Attraction of the Contrary: Essays on the Literature of the French Enlightenment. Cambridge University Press. p. 83. ISBN 978-0-521-33386-3...

the literary events and publications of 1754. January 28 – Horace Walpole, in a letter to Horace Mann, coins the word serendipity (from the Persian fairy...