1715 in literature

none 1715 literature poetry July 2020 This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1715. Events c. August – Nicholas Rowe becomes the Poet Laureate of Great Britain. The first record of the actress and writer Eliza Haywood tells of her performing in Thomas Shadwell's Shakespeare adaptation, Timon of Athens; or, The Man-Hater at the Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin.Blouch Christine Eliza Haywood and the Romance of Obscurity SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 Summer 1991 31 3 535–551 450861 10.2307/450861 New books Prose Joseph Addison – The Free-Holder (periodical) Jane Barker – Exilius; or, The Banished Roman Richard Bentley – A Sermon upon Popery Samuel Croxall – The Vision Daniel Defoe An Appeal to Honour and Justice The Family Instructor A Hymn to the Mob Elizabeth Elstob – The Rudiments of Grammar for the English-Saxon Tongue, first given in English; with an apology for the study of northern antiquities, the first grammar of Old English Thomas-Simon Gueullette – Les Mille et un quarts-d’heure, contes tartares (The Thousand and One Quarters of an Hour, Tartarian Tales) Alain-René Lesage (anonymous) – L'Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane (Books 1–6) Charles Montagu – The Works and Life of the Late Earl of Halifax Jonathan Richardson – An Essay on the Theory of Painting "Captain" Alexander Smith – The Secret History of the Lives of the Most Celebrated Beauties, Ladies of Quality, and Jilts Richard Steele The Englishman: Second Series (periodical) Town-Talk (periodical) Children Isaac Watts – Divine Songs Attempted in Easy Language for the Use of Children Drama Christopher Bullock – A Woman's RevengeWilliam J. Burling A Checklist of New Plays and Entertainments on the London Stage, 1700-1737 https://books.google.com/books?id=HMQJxeNpHR0C&pg=PA59 1992 Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press 978-0-8386-3451-6 57–60 Henry Carey – The Contrivances Susanna Centlivre – The Gotham Election (not performed because of political content) Chikamatsu Monzaemon – The Battles of Coxinga (国姓爺合戦, Kokusen'ya Kassen) Charles Rivière Dufresny – La Coquette de village John Gay – The What D'Ye Call It Benjamin Griffin Injured Virtue; or, The Virgin Martyr Love in a Sack Newburgh Hamilton – The Doating Lovers Charles Johnson – The Country Lasses Charles Knipe – A City Ramble Charles Molloy – The Perplexed Couple Nicholas Rowe -The Tragedy of Lady Jane Grey Lewis Theobald – The Perfidious Brother (allegedly plagiarized, staged the following year) John Vanbrugh – The Country House Poetry 1715 in poetry Charles Cotton – The Genuine Works of Charles Cotton Alexander Pope The Temple of Fame (based on Chaucer) The Iliad of Homer vol. i. Thomas Tickell – The First Book of Homer's Iliad Isaac Watts Divine Songs A Guide to Prayer Births January 14 (baptised) – Frances Vane, Viscountess Vane (Lady Fanny), English memoirist (died 1788) January 26 or February 26 – Claude Adrien Helvétius, French philosophical writer (died 1771) June 4 (c. 1715–1724) – Cao Xueqin, Chinese writer (died 1763) September 30 – Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, French philosophical writer (died 1780) October 1 – Richard Jago, English poet (died 1781) Probable year of birth John Hawkesworth, English writer and editor (died 1773)Hawkesworth, John 13 97 Alexander Russell, Scottish physician and naturalist (died 1768) Deaths January 7 – François Fénelon, French archbishop, theologian, poet and writer (born 1651) February 25 – Pu Songling (蒲松齡), Qing Dynasty Chinese writer (born 1640) March 8 – William Dampier, English explorer and writer (born 1651) March 17 – Gilbert Burnet, Scottish theologian and historian (born 1643) July 30 – Nahum Tate, Irish poet and hymnist (born 1652) October 13 – Nicolas Malebranche, French priest and rationalist philosopher (born 1638) Unknown date – Mary Monck, Irish poet (date of birth unknown)Joanne Shattock Senior Lecturer Department of English Joanne Shattock The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers https://books.google.com/books?id=KoEYAAAAIAAJ 1993 Oxford University Press 978-0-19-214176-7 299 References 30em