1749 in literature

none December 2013 1749 literature poetry July 2020 This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1749. Events February – The second part of John Cleland's erotic novel Fanny Hill (Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure) appears in London. He is released from debtor's prison in March. The Church of England asks the Secretary of State to "stop the progress of this vile Book, which is an open insult upon Religion and good manners." In November, Cleland is arrested again, charged with "corrupting the King's subjects." February 28 – Henry Fielding's picaresque comic novel The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling is published in London by Andrew Millar, who pays the author £700.Williams Hywel Cassell's Chronology of World History https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will registration London Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2005 0-304-35730-8 313 It reaches four editions by the end of the year. During this year, Fielding becomes magistrate at Bow Street and enlists help from the Bow Street Runners, an early police force.Palmer Alan Palmer Veronica 1992 The Chronology of British History Century Ltd London 219–220 0-7126-5616-2 April 12 – Oxford's circular Radcliffe Library, designed by James Gibbs, opens.149 Ivor Guest Ivor Forbes Guest Dr. John Radcliffe and His Trust London The Radcliffe Trust 1991 0-9502482-1-5 April 17 – Charles Macklin plays Lovegold in Henry Fielding's The Miser at Drury Lane, having previously played minor roles.Henry Fielding Henry Fielding - Plays, Volume II, 1731 - 1734 https://books.google.com/books?id=l7USDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA472 2004 Clarendon Press 978-0-19-925790-4 472 unknown dates Sarah Fielding's novel The Governess, or The Little Female Academy, generally seen as the first school story, is published in London.Foster Shirley Simons Judy What Katy Read: feminist re-readings of "classic" stories for girls 195 University of Iowa Press 1995 0-87745-493-0 https://archive.org/details/whatkatyreadfemi00fost/page/195 Élie Catherine Fréron's journal Lettres de la comtesse de... is suppressed, but immediately replaced by his Lettres sur quelques écrits de ce temps. Oliver Goldsmith graduates from Trinity College Dublin. New books Prose Joseph Ames – Typographical Antiquities George Berkeley – A Word to the Wise John Brown – On Liberty Thomas Cannon – Ancient and Modern Pederasty Investigated and Exemplify'd William Rufus Chetwood – A General History of the Stage John Cleland The Case of the Unfortunate Bosavern Penlez Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, or, Fanny Hill (unexpurgated, suppressed edition) John Gilbert Cooper – The Life of Socrates Denis Diderot – Lettre sur les aveugles à l'usage de ceux qui voient (Letter on the Blind for the Use of Those Who Can See) Henry Fielding The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling The True State of the Case of Bosavern Penlez (in reply to Cleland) Sarah Fielding – Remarks on 'Clarissa''' David Hartley – Observations on Man, his Frame, his Duty, and his Expectations (psychology) Eliza Haywood – Dalinda (novel) Aaron Hill – GideonJohn Jones – Free and Candid DisquisitionsWilliam Law – The Spirit of PrayerWilliam Mason – IsisLauritz de Thurah – Den Danske Vitruvius, volume II Henry St. John – Letters on the Spirit of PatriotismJohn Wesley – A Plain Account of the People Called MethodistsGilbert West – Odes of PindarDiego de Torres Villarroel – Vida ejemplar y virtudes heroicas del venerable padre D. Jerónimo Abarrátegui y FigueroaChildren Sarah Fielding – The Governess, or The Little Female AcademyDrama Anonymous – Tittle Tattle (adaptation of Swift's Genteel and Ingenious Conversations) William Hawkins – Henry and RosamundAaron Hill – MeropéSamuel Johnson – IreneMoses Mendes – The Chaplet (musical, with music by William Boyce) Tobias Smollett – The RegicideAlexander Sumarokov – KhorevJames Thomson – CoriolanusVoltaire – NaninePoetry 1749 in poetry William Collins – Ode Occasion'd by the death of Mr. ThomsonThomas Cooke – An Ode on BeautySamuel Johnson – The Vanity of Human Wishes: The tenth satire of Juvenal, imitatedCox, Michael The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature Oxford University Press 2004 0-19-860634-6 https://archive.org/details/conciseoxfordchr00coxm Henry Jones – Poemsthumb|Goethe's birthplace in Frankfurt Births January 13 – Maler Müller (Friedrich Müller), German lyricist, dramatist and painter (died 1825) January 16 – Vittorio Alfieri, Italian dramatist and poet (died 1803) April 19 – Ōta Nanpo (Ōta Tan), Japanese comic poet and painter (died 1823) May 4 – Charlotte Turner Smith, English poet and novelist (died 1806) August 28 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German poet, scholar and novelist (died 1832) December 19 – Alethea Lewis (Eugenia de Acton), English novelist (died 1827) December 25 – Samuel Jackson Pratt, English poet, playwright and novelist (died 1814)Day Gary Lynch Jack The Encyclopedia of British Literature, 3 Volume Set: 1660 - 1789 9 March 2015 John Wiley & Sons 978-1-4443-3020-5 922 https://books.google.com/books?id=ThBhBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA922 enunknown date'' – Wang Yun, Chinese poet and playwright (died 1819) Deaths January 22 – Matthew Concanen, Irish poet, playwright and lawyer (born 1701) February 20 – Usher Gahagan, Irish-born classical scholar, poet and coiner, hanged May – Samuel Boyse, Irish poet (born 1702/3) June 18 – Ambrose Philips, English poet and politician (born 1675) August 13 – Johann Elias Schlegel, German critic and dramatic poet (born 1719) September 10 – Émilie du Châtelet, French scientific writer and translator (born 1706)Erica Harth Cartesian Women: Versions and Subversions of Rational Discourse in the Old Regime https://books.google.com/books?id=9Mpe59dmSfEC&pg=PA210 1992 Cornell University Press 0-8014-9998-4 210 References 30em