1759 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1759.

List of years in literature (table)
In poetry
1756
1757
1758
1759
1760
1761
1762

Events

  • By January 15 – Voltaire's satirical novel Candide, ou l'Optimisme is published simultaneously in five countries.
  • January 15 – The British Museum opens in London.
  • March 5Denis Diderot's Encyclopédie is proscribed by the Vatican and temporarily suppressed by the French government. The ban is lifted in September to allow publication of a revised version.[1]
  • July 27 – The earliest known professional performance of Shakespeare's Hamlet in North America (in Garrick's version) is given by the American Company in Philadelphia, with Lewis Hallam Jr. as Hamlet.<ref">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.</ref>
  • August 12 – In the Seven Years' War Battle of Kunersdorf, the German poet Major Ewald Christian von Kleist is fatally injured.
  • December – Laurence Sterne has the first two volumes of his comic metafictional novel The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman printed in York, in a shop owned by Ann Ward.
  • December 22 – The writer and critic William Warburton is nominated Anglican Bishop of Gloucester.[2]
  • unknown dates

New books

Fiction

Drama

Poetry

Non-fiction

Births

Deaths

References

  1. Margaret Bald (14 May 2014). Literature Suppressed on Religious Grounds. Infobase Publishing. p. 93. ISBN 978-0-8160-7148-7.
  2. 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.
  3. William Cowper (1968). The Correspondence of William Cowper. Ardent Media. p. 188.
  4. "Pistols belonging to Robert Burns". National Museums Scotland. Archived from the original on 25 March 2019. Retrieved 25 March 2019.
  5. "Biography of John Jamieson". www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk. Retrieved 20 March 2018.
  6. "Mary Wollstonecraft | Biography, Works, & Facts". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 25 March 2019.
  7. "Kelly [née Fordyce; other married name Hedgeland], Isabella (bap. 1759, d. 1857), poet and novelist". www.oxforddnb.com. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-37626. Retrieved 25 March 2019.
  8. Michael H. Fisher, "Mahomed, Deen (1759–1851)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, UK: OUP), 2004 Retrieved 13 May 2017.
  9. The Monthly Magazine: Or, British Register ... 1808. p. 588.
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