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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1743.
Events
March – Robert Dodsley advertises in the London Evening Post his plans to publish rare 16th and 17th-century plays so as to avoid them being lost.Richard Schoch Writing the History of the British Stage: 1660–1900 https://books.google.com/books?id=FMrxDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA204 12 September 2016 Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-16692-9 204
July 5 – A benefit performance for the elderly acting couple Henry and Elizabeth Wetherilt is held at Smock Alley Theatre in Dublin.Philip H. Highfill Kalman A. Burnim Edward A. Langhans A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers & Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800 https://books.google.com/books?id=5A4EHRa1dfcC&pg=PA13 1973 SIU Press 978-0-8093-1803-2 13
August – Shortly after the death of Richard Savage, Samuel Johnson announces his intention to publish a biography of Savage.
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Johann Elias Schlegel becomes secretary to an ambassador at the Danish court.Elizabeth Mary Wilkinson Johann Elias Schlegel: A German Pioneer in Aesthetics https://books.google.com/books?id=tmwqAAAAYAAJ 1973 B. Blackwell 978-3-534-05521-0 49
A legal deposit law requires a copy of every book printed in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany to be deposited in the Magliabechiana library in Florence.Stuart A.P. Murray The Library: An Illustrated History https://books.google.com/books?id=HMgtAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT387 9 July 2009 Skyhorse 978-1-62873-322-8 387
New books
Fiction
Comte de Caylus – les Contes orientaux
William Rufus Chetwood – The Twins (prose fiction)
Henry Fielding – The Life of Jonathan Wild the Great in Miscellanies, with A Journey from This World to the Next
Eliza Haywood – Memoirs of an Unfortunate Young NoblemanSeager Nicholas Cook Daniel Seager Nicholas The Afterlives of Eighteenth-Century Fiction 2015 Cambridge University Press 9781316299128 111 https://books.google.com/books?id=xo6WCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA111 17 March 2019 en The Novel's Afterlife in the Newspaper, 1712-1750
Aaron Hill – The Fanciad
Marguerite de Lubert – La Princesse Camion (Princess Camion)
Benjamin Martin – A Course of Lectures in Natural and Experimental Philosophy, Geography, and AstronomyFirst edition. Retrieved 12 September 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170913043730/http://www.jarndyce.co.uk/online_catalogues/E-LIST1585-1752.pdf 2017-09-13
Diego de Torres Villarroel – Vida
Drama
Thomas Cooke – Love the Cause and Cure of Grief
Charles Simon Favart – Le Coq du villageMichel Delon Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment https://books.google.com/books?id=QEpJAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA1397 4 December 2013 Routledge 978-1-135-95998-2 1397
Henry Fielding – The Wedding-Day
John Gay – The Distress'd Wife
Voltaire – MéropeWalter E. Rex Walter E.. Rex The Attraction of the Contrary: Essays on the Literature of the French Enlightenment https://books.google.com/books?id=ngfVXyox_5UC&pg=PA83 24 September 1987 Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-33386-3 83
William Shakespeare (ed. Thomas Hanmer) – The Works of Shakespear
Poetry
1743 in poetry
Robert Blair – The GraveCox, Michael The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature Oxford University Press 2004 0-19-860634-6 registration https://archive.org/details/conciseoxfordchr00coxm
Samuel Boyse – Albion's Triumph
James Bramston (attributed) – The Crooked Six-pence
William Collins – Verses Humbly Address'd to Sir Thomas Hanmer (related to Hanmer's edition of The Works of Shakespear)
Philip Francis – The Odes, Epodes, and Carmen Seculare of Horace
David Mallet – Poems on Several Occasions
Alexander Pope – The New Dunciad (revised version)
Non-fiction
Henry Baker – The Microscope Made Easy
Henry St. John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke – Remarks on the History of England (from The Craftsman)
John Brown – Honour
Colley Cibber
The Egotist; or, Colley Upon Cibber (many deprecations on Alexander Pope)
A Second Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope
Thomas Cooke – An Epistle to the Countess of Shaftesbury
Manuel da Assumpção – Vocabolario em idioma Bengalla, e Portuguez (Vocabulary of the Bengali Language and Portuguese)
Philip Doddridge – The Principles of the Christian Religion
Enrique Flórez – Clave historial con que se abre la puerta a la historia eclesiástica y política (Clavis Historiae)
Eliza Haywood – A Present for a Servant-Maid (conduct book for female servants, in the light of Richardson's Pamela)
Richard Pococke – A Description of the East & Some Other CountriesFinnegan Rachel Richard Pococke http://www.irishegyptology.com/richardpococke Irish Egyptology 17 March 2019
William Stukeley – Abury: A temple of the British Druids
Diego de Torres Villarroel – Vida, ascendencia, nacimiento, crianza y aventuras del Doctor Don Diego de Torres VillarroelRojas Carlota Fernández-Jáuregui Poética del pronóstico y autobiografía: Diego de Torres Villarroel Dialogía. Revista de lingüística, literatura y cultura 5 December 2016 10 260–291 https://www.journals.uio.no/index.php/Dialogia/article/view/4020 25 March 2019 es 2225-708X
William Whitehead – An Essay on RidiculeMaximillian E. Novak Anne Kostelanetz Mellor Passionate Encounters in a Time of Sensibility https://books.google.com/books?id=QhdOvAgTcIcC&pg=PA123 2000 University of Delaware Press 978-0-87413-703-3 123
Births
January 25 – Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, German philosopher (died 1819)
February 14 – Jane Bowdler, English poet and essayist (died 1784)
March 4 – Johann David Wyss, Swiss novelist writing in German (died 1818)
March 14 – Hannah Cowley, English dramatist and poet (died 1809)
April 13 – Thomas Jefferson, American revolutionary and president (died 1826)
June 20 – Anna Laetitia Barbauld, English poet (died 1825)
July 14 – Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin, Russian lyric poet (died 1816)
July 30 – Philip Yorke, Welsh antiquary and genealogist (died 1804)
August 17 – Julien Louis Geoffroy, French critic (died 1814)Louis Constant Wairy Constant (known as) Recollections of the Private Life of Napoleon https://books.google.com/books?id=4ZIJAQAAIAAJ 1915 Saalfield Publishing Company 51
Deaths
April 4
Robert Ainsworth, English lexicographer (born 1660)
Daniel Neal, English historian (born 1678)Walter Wilson History & Antiquities of the Dissenting Churches - Vol. 3 https://books.google.com/books?id=26BsyTg7ixIC&pg=PA102 October 2001 The Baptist Standard Bearer, Inc. 978-1-57978-617-5 102
April 29 – Charles-Irénée Castel de Saint-Pierre, French writer and thinker (born 1658)
May 6 – Andrew Michael Ramsay, Scottish biographer (born 1686)Jonathan Swift John Hawkesworth Letters https://books.google.com/books?id=Wt2OgFfzyGEC&pg=PA226 1766 R. DAVIS, in Piccadilly 226
August 1 – Richard Savage, English poet (born c. 1697)The Gentleman's Magazine: A General Index to the First Fifty-six Volumes ... from 1731, to the End of 1786 https://books.google.com/books?id=ptcxAQAAMAAJ&pg=PR36 1821 J. Nicholas and son 36
October 5 – Henry Carey, English poet, songwriter and dramatist, suicide (born 1687)
October 15 – John Ozell, English translator (year of birth not known)Complete Young Man The Complete Young Man's Companion, Or, Self Instructor https://books.google.com/books?id=8AAvDJiUNLwC&pg=PA415 1810 Russell and Allen 415
December 22 – James Bramston, English satirical poet (born c. 1694)
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