Overview of the events of 1759 in literature
Overview of the events of 1759 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1759 .
Events
New books
Fiction
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
January 25 – Robert Burns , Scottish poet writing in Braid Scots and English (died 1796 )[5]
March 5 – John Jamieson , Scottish lexicographer (died 1838 )[6]
March 29 – Alexander Chalmers , Scottish biographer and editor (died 1834 )
April 27 – Mary Wollstonecraft , English political writer and advocate of women's rights (died 1797 )[7]
May 4 (baptism) – Isabella Kelly , Scottish novelist and poet (died 1857 )[8]
June 17 – Helen Maria Williams , English novelist, poet and translator from French (died 1827 )
October 13 – Mary Hays , English writer and advocate of women's rights (died 1843 )
November 10 – Friedrich Schiller , German poet and dramatist (died 1805 )
December 25 – Richard Porson , English classicist (died 1808 )
unknown date – Deen Mahomet , author of first book in English by an Indian (died 1851 )[9]
Deaths
June 12 – William Collins , English poet (born 1721 )
June 26 – Arthur Young , English religious writer and cleric (born 1693 )
July 27 – Pierre Louis Maupertuis , French philosopher (born 1698 )
July 29 – Kata Bethlen , Hungarian memoirist and correspondent (born 1700 )
August 16 – Eugene Aram , English philologist and murderer, hanged (born 1704 )
August 24 – Ewald Christian von Kleist , German poet (born 1715 )
September 5 – Lauritz de Thurah , Danish architectural historian (born 1706 )
October 7 – Joseph Ames , English bibliographer and antiquary (born 1680 )
unknown date – Francis Coventry , English clergyman and novelist (born 1725 )[10]
probable – Anton Wilhelm Amo , West African-born German philosopher (born 1703 )
References
^ Margaret Bald (14 May 2014). Literature Suppressed on Religious Grounds . Infobase Publishing. p. 93. ISBN 978-0-8160-7148-7 .
^ Stanley Wells; Sarah Stanton; Wells Stanley (30 May 2002). The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Stage . Cambridge University Press. p. 231. ISBN 978-0-521-79711-5 .
^ John Selby Watson (1863). The Life of William Warburton, Lord Bishop of Gloucester from 1760 to 1779: with Remarks on His Works . Longman. p. 495.
^ William Cowper (1968). The Correspondence of William Cowper . Ardent Media. p. 188.
^ "Pistols belonging to Robert Burns" . National Museums Scotland . Archived from the original on 25 March 2019. Retrieved 25 March 2019 .
^ "Biography of John Jamieson" . www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk . Retrieved 20 March 2018 .
^ "Mary Wollstonecraft | Biography, Works, & Facts" . Encyclopedia Britannica . Retrieved 25 March 2019 .
^ "Kelly [née Fordyce; other married name Hedgeland], Isabella (bap. 1759, d. 1857), poet and novelist" . Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi :10.1093/ref:odnb/37626 . Retrieved 25 March 2019 . (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ Michael H. Fisher, "Mahomed, Deen (1759–1851)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, UK: OUP), 2004 Retrieved 13 May 2017.
^ The Monthly Magazine: Or, British Register ... 1808. p. 588.