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Overview of the events of 1714 in literature
Overview of the events of 1714 in literature
Events from the year 1714 in literature .
Events
March – The
Scriblerus Club , an informal group of literary friends, includes
Jonathan Swift ,
Alexander Pope ,
John Gay ,
John Arbuthnot (at whose
London house they meet),
Thomas Parnell ,
Henry St. John and
Robert Harley .
[1]
July 4 – The scholar
Antonio Magliabechi bequeaths his personal library to his patron
Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany , to serve as a
public library for the city of
Florence . In doing so he founds the
National Central Library .
July 27 –
Robert Harley is dismissed as Britain's
Lord High Treasurer .
[2]
August 1 – George, Elector of
Hanover , becomes King
George I of Great Britain after the death of
Queen Anne .
[2] This leads many writers to oppose the new
Whig ministry, initiating the rise of
Robert Walpole and indictment of
Henry St. John .
Samuel Garth publishes a poem in praise of Queen Anne; he subsequently becomes royal surgeon and is the first man to be knighted by George I.
[3]
August 12 –
Jonathan Swift writes to
Esther Vanhomrigh to tell her he is returning to Ireland. Soon afterwards, she follows.
unknown date –
Moses ben Avraham Avinu is imprisoned in
Halle for printing
Hebrew texts with supposedly anti-Christian content, but escapes to
Amsterdam .
[4]
New books
Prose
Drama
Poetry
Births
January 1 –
Kristijonas Donelaitis , Prussian Lithuanian poet (died
1780 )
February 26 –
James Hervey , English writer (died
1758 )
April 14 –
Adam Gib , Scottish theologian (died
1788 )
May 6 –
James Townley , English dramatist (died
1778 )
October 25 –
Marie Jeanne Riccoboni , French actress and dramatist (died
1792 )
November 3 or
December 3 –
Anica Bošković ,
Ragusan writer (died
1804 )
November 13 –
William Shenstone , English poet (died
1763 )
[10]
December 16 (December 27
New Style ) –
George Whitefield , English preacher in American colonies (died
1770 )
December –
Jane Collier , English novelist (died
1755 )
unknown date –
James Parker , American printer and publisher (died
1770 )
Deaths
Tomb of Takemoto Gidayū in Osaka
References
^ Rumbold, Valerie (2009).
"Scriblerus Club (act. 1714)" .
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press.
doi :
10.1093/ref:odnb/71160 . Retrieved 2011-02-04 . (Subscription or
UK public library membership required.)
^
a
b Williams, Hywel (2005).
Cassell's Chronology of World History . London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. p.
294 .
ISBN
0-304-35730-8 .
^ C. C. Booth (May 1986). "Sir Samuel Garth, F.R.S.: The Dispensary Poet". Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London . 40 (2). Royal Society: 125–145.
doi :
10.1098/rsnr.1986.0008 .
PMID
11620893 .
S2CID
1271150 .
^ Marvin J. Heller (1999).
Printing the Talmud: A History of the Individual Treatises Printed from 1700 to 1750 . Brill. p. 72.
ISBN
90-04-11293-6 .
^ Susanna Centlivre (19 December 2003).
The Wonder: A Woman Keeps a Secret . Broadview Press. p. 9.
ISBN
978-1-55111-454-5 .
^
a
b François Parfaict; Claude Parfaict (1749).
Histoire du théatre françois: depuis son origine jusqu'à présent, avec la vie des plus célèbres poètes dramatiques, un catalogue exact de leurs piéces, & des notes historiques & critiques. Tome quinziéme . Chez P. G. Le Mercier. p. 481.
^ George Watson; Ian R. Willison; J. D. Pickles (2 July 1971).
The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 2, 1660-1800 . Cambridge University Press. p. 123.
ISBN
978-0-521-07934-1 .
^ Marrone, Gaetana; Puppa, Paolo (2006).
Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies . Routledge. p. 1101.
ISBN
9781135455309 . Retrieved 7 July 2019 .
^ Nicholas Rowe (1714).
The tragedy of Jane Shore . T. Johnson, Bookseller at The Hague.
^ William Shenstone (1863).
The Poetical Works ... James Nichols. p. 6.
^ One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the
public domain :
Chisholm, Hugh , ed. (1911). "
Henry, Matthew ".
Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
^ Gerstle, Drew (2001).
Chikamatsu: Five Late Plays . New York: Columbia University Press. pp.
10 –18.
^ Philip H. Highfill; Kalman A. Burnim; Edward A. Langhans (1975).
A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers, and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800 . SIU Press. p. 166.
ISBN
978-0-8093-0693-0 .