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Overview of the events of 1714 in literature
Overview of the events of 1714 in literature
Events from the year 1714 in literature .
March – The Scriblerus Club , an informal group of literary friends, includes Jonathan Swift , Alexander Pope , John Gay , John Arbuthnot (at whose London house they meet), Thomas Parnell , Henry St. John and Robert Harley .[1]
July 4 – The scholar Antonio Magliabechi bequeaths his personal library to his patron Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany , to serve as a public library for the city of Florence . In doing so he founds the National Central Library .
July 27 – Robert Harley is dismissed as Britain's Lord High Treasurer .[2]
August 1 – George, Elector of Hanover , becomes King George I of Great Britain after the death of Queen Anne .[2] This leads many writers to oppose the new Whig ministry, initiating the rise of Robert Walpole and indictment of Henry St. John . Samuel Garth publishes a poem in praise of Queen Anne; he subsequently becomes royal surgeon and is the first man to be knighted by George I.[3]
August 12 – Jonathan Swift writes to Esther Vanhomrigh to tell her he is returning to Ireland. Soon afterwards, she follows.
unknown date – Moses ben Avraham Avinu is imprisoned in Halle for printing Hebrew texts with supposedly anti-Christian content, but escapes to Amsterdam .[4]
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January 1 – Kristijonas Donelaitis , Prussian Lithuanian poet (died 1780 )
February 26 – James Hervey , English writer (died 1758 )
April 14 – Adam Gib , Scottish theologian (died 1788 )
May 6 – James Townley , English dramatist (died 1778 )
October 25 – Marie Jeanne Riccoboni , French actress and dramatist (died 1792 )
November 3 or December 3 – Anica Bošković , Ragusan writer (died 1804 )
November 13 – William Shenstone , English poet (died 1763 )[10]
December 16 (December 27 New Style ) – George Whitefield , English preacher in American colonies (died 1770 )
December – Jane Collier , English novelist (died 1755 )
unknown date – James Parker , American printer and publisher (died 1770 )
Tomb of Takemoto Gidayū in Osaka
References [ edit ]
^ Rumbold, Valerie (2009). "Scriblerus Club (act. 1714)" . Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi :10.1093/ref:odnb/71160 . Retrieved 2011-02-04 . (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ a b Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History . London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. p. 294 . ISBN 0-304-35730-8 .
^ C. C. Booth (May 1986). "Sir Samuel Garth, F.R.S.: The Dispensary Poet". Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London . 40 (2). Royal Society: 125–145. doi :10.1098/rsnr.1986.0008 . PMID 11620893 . S2CID 1271150 .
^ Marvin J. Heller (1999). Printing the Talmud: A History of the Individual Treatises Printed from 1700 to 1750 . Brill. p. 72. ISBN 90-04-11293-6 .
^ Susanna Centlivre (19 December 2003). The Wonder: A Woman Keeps a Secret . Broadview Press. p. 9. ISBN 978-1-55111-454-5 .
^ a b François Parfaict; Claude Parfaict (1749). Histoire du théatre françois: depuis son origine jusqu'à présent, avec la vie des plus célèbres poètes dramatiques, un catalogue exact de leurs piéces, & des notes historiques & critiques. Tome quinziéme . Chez P. G. Le Mercier. p. 481.
^ George Watson; Ian R. Willison; J. D. Pickles (2 July 1971). The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 2, 1660-1800 . Cambridge University Press. p. 123. ISBN 978-0-521-07934-1 .
^ Marrone, Gaetana; Puppa, Paolo (2006). Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies . Routledge. p. 1101. ISBN 9781135455309 . Retrieved 7 July 2019 .
^ Nicholas Rowe (1714). The tragedy of Jane Shore . T. Johnson, Bookseller at The Hague.
^ William Shenstone (1863). The Poetical Works ... James Nichols. p. 6.
^ One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Chisholm, Hugh , ed. (1911). "Henry, Matthew ". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
^ Gerstle, Drew (2001). Chikamatsu: Five Late Plays . New York: Columbia University Press. pp. 10 –18.
^ Philip H. Highfill; Kalman A. Burnim; Edward A. Langhans (1975). A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers, and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800 . SIU Press. p. 166. ISBN 978-0-8093-0693-0 .