1736 in literature
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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1736.
Events
- Charles Rivington founds a company of London booksellers known as the New Conger.[1]
New books
- Anonymous - The Life of Marianne (fiction, transl. 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
- Stephen Duck - Poems on Several Occasions
- Eliza Haywood - Adventures of Eovaai (later as The Unfortunate Princess)
- William Melmoth - Two Epistles of Horace Imitated
- Muhammad ibn Abd-al-Wahhab - Kitab at-tawhidt
- Isaac Newton - Method of Fluxions
- Alexander Pope - The Works of Alexander Pope vols. iii - iv
- 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
- Historia de historias
New 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
Births
- May 10 – George Steevens, English Shakespearean editor and hoaxer (died 1800)
- October 27 – James Macpherson, Scottish writer, poet and politician (died 1796)
- Unknown date
- 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
- ↑
Lee, Sidney, ed. (1896). "Rivington, Charles". Dictionary of National Biography 48. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
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