1726 in literature

1726 in literature

The year 1726 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

* Voltaire arrives for a 3 year stay in England.
* Lavinia Fenton makes her debut as Monimia in Thomas Otway's "The Orphan" at the Haymarket Theatre.
* Françoise-Louise de Warens converts to Catholicism.

New books

* Anonymous - "Gulliver Decyphered"
* Corporate authorship - "The Craftsman" (periodical associated with Henry St. John)
* Penelope Aubin - "The Life and Adventures of the Lady Lucy" (novel)
* John Balguy - "A letter to a Deist concerning the Beauty and Excellency of Moral Virtue, and the Support and Improvement which it receives from the Christian Religion"
* Jane Barker - "The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen" (sequel to 1723's "A Patch-Work Screen")
* Joseph Butler - "Fifteen Sermons"
* William Rufus Chetwood - "The Voyages and Adventures of Captain Robert Boyle" (fiction, sometimes attrib. Daniel Defoe)
* Anthony Collins - "The Scheme of Literal Prophecy"
* Daniel Defoe - "The Political History of the Devil"
** - "A System of Magick"
* John Dennis - "The Stage Defended" (reply to Law, below)
* Eliza Haywood - "The City Jilt"
** - "The Mercenary Lover"
* William Law - "The Absolute Unlawfulness of the Stage"
** - "A Practical Treatise upon Christian Perfection"
* William Penn - "Fruits of a Father's Love"
** - "A Collection of the Works of William Penn"
* Alexander Pope - "The Odyssey of Homer"
** and William Pulteney - "The Discovery"
* Richard Savage - "Miscellaneous Poems"
* William Somervile - "Occasional Poems"
* Joseph Spence - "An Essay on Pope's Odyssey" (concerning a translation of Homer's "Odyssey" by Alexander Pope)
* Jonathan Swift - "Gulliver's Travels"
** - "Cadenus and Vanessa"
* Lewis Theobald - "Shakespeare Restored"
* James Thomson - "Winter" (part of "The Four Seasons")

New drama

* Aaron Hill - "The Fatal Extravagance"
* Thomas Southerne - "Money the Mistress"
* Leonard Welsted - "The Dissembling Wanton"

Births

*April 7 - Charles Burney, music historian and father of Fanny Burney
*June 14 - Thomas Pennant, Welsh naturalist and writer (died 1798)
*September 25 - Angelo Maria Bandini, author and librarian (died 1800)
*"date unknown"
**John H. D. Anderson, natural philosopher (died 1796)
** John Howard

Deaths

*March 26 - Sir John Vanbrugh, dramatist and architect (born 1664)
*April 5 - Ludwig Babenstuber, theologian and philosopher (born 1660)
*May 20 - Nicholas Brady, poet (born 1659)
*December 2 - Samuel Penhallow, historian (born 1665)
*"date unknown"
**Jeremy Collier, theologian and critic
**Daniel Whitby, theologian


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