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Overview of the events of 1761 in literature
Overview of the events of 1761 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1761.
Events
New books
Fiction
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
March 8 –
Jan Potocki , Polish count, military engineer, ethnologist, Egyptologist, linguist, aeronaut, adventurer and novelist (suicide
1815 )
May 3 –
August von Kotzebue , German dramatist (died
1819 )
[4]
July 25 –
Charlotte von Kalb , German writer (died
1843 )
September 8 –
François Juste Marie Raynouard , French dramatist (died
1836 )
September 13 –
Santō Kyōden , born Iwase Samuru, Japanese fiction writer, poet and artist (died
1816 )
November 13 –
Elizabeth Meeke , English popular novelist (died c.
1826 )
Unknown dates
Deaths
References
^ Jessica Mary Goodman (2017).
Goldoni in Paris: La Gloire Et Le Malentendu . Oxford University Press. p. 24.
ISBN
978-0-19-879662-6 .
^ Andrew S. Curran, Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely, Other Press, 2019, p. 196
^
Magnusson, Magnus (2007) [2006]. Fakers, Forgers & Phoneys . Edinburgh: Mainstream. p. 334.
ISBN
978-1-84596-210-4 .
^ This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
public domain :
Chisholm, Hugh , ed. (1911). "
Kotzebue, August Friedrich Ferdinand von ".
Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. 15 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 919–920.
^ Dussinger, John A. "Richardson, Samuel".
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press.
doi :
10.1093/ref:odnb/23582 . (Subscription or
UK public library membership required.)