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1736 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1736.

Contents

Events

  • Charles Rivington founds a company of London booksellers known as the New Conger.

    • Prose

  • Anonymous – The Life of Marianne (fiction, translation of Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux)
  • Joseph Addison – The Works of Petronius Arbiter (translation)
  • John Armstrong – The Oeconomy of Love
  • Thomas Bayes – An Introduction to the Doctrine of Fluxions, and a Defence of the Mathematicians Against the Objections of the Author of the Analyst
  • Isaac Hawkins Browne – A Pipe of Tobacco
  • Joseph Butler – Analogy of Religion
  • Thomas Carte – Life of James Duke of Ormonde
  • William Rufus Chetwood – The Voyages. . . of William Owen Gwin Vaughan
  • Eliza Haywood – Adventures of Eovaai (later as The Unfortunate Princess)
  • Muhammad ibn Abd-al-Wahhab – Kitab at-tawhidt
  • Isaac Newton – Method of Fluxions
  • Elizabeth Rowe – The History of Joseph
  • William Stukeley – Palaeographia Sacra
  • James Thomson – Britain
  • William Warburton – The Alliance Between Church and State (an answer to Benjamin Hoadly from the year before)
  • Leonard Welsted – The Scheme and Conduct of Providence
  • Diego de Torres Villarroel
  • Los desahuciados del mundo y de la gloria (The Deathly Illness of the World and of Glory)
  • Historia de historias

    • Drama

  • Henry Carey – The Honest Yorkshireman
  • Colley Cibber – Papal Tyranny in the Reign of King John
  • Henry Fielding – Pasquin
  • Aaron Hill – Alzira
  • George Lillo – The Fatal Curiosity
  • James Miller – The Man of Taste

    • Poems

  • Stephen Duck – Poems on Several Occasions
  • William Melmoth – Two Epistles of Horace Imitated
  • Alexander Pope – The Works of Alexander Pope vols iii–iv
  • Voltaire – Le Mondain

    • Births

  • May 10 – George Steevens, English Shakespearean editor and hoaxer (died 1800)
  • June 25 – John Horne Tooke, English controversialist and cleric (died 1812)
  • October 27 – James Macpherson, Scottish writer, poet and politician (died 1796)
  • Unknown dates
  • Robert Jephson, Irish dramatist and politician (died 1803)
  • James Ridley (Sir Charles Morell), English novelist and story writer (died 1765)

    • Deaths

  • February 9 – Barnaby Bernard Lintot, English bookseller and publisher (born 1675)
  • March 18 – Jacob Tonson, English bookseller and publisher (born c. 1655)
  • April 30 – Johann Albert Fabricius, German scholar and bibliographer (born 1668)
  • July 16 – Thomas Yalden, English poet and translator (born 1670)

    • In literature

  • John Fowles' novel A Maggot (1985) opens this May.
  • Walter Scott's novel The Heart of Midlothian (1818) is set during the Porteous Riots.

    • References

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