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Overview of the events of 1621 in literature
Events from the year 1621 in literature .
Uncertain date
January 27 –
Thomas Willis , English physician and natural philosopher (died
1675 )
March 18 –
Henry Teonge , English diarist and naval chaplain (died
1690 )
March 31 –
Andrew Marvell , English poet (died
1678 )
April 25 –
Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery , Anglo-Irish dramatist (died
1679 )
July 8 –
Jean de La Fontaine , French author of fables (died
1695 )
December 3 –
Bohuslav Balbín , Czech Jesuit writer (died
1688 )
December 14 (baptised) –
Thomas Long , English writer and cleric (died
1707 )
unknown date –
Jane Cavendish , English poet and playwright (died
1669 )
[6]
probable –
Françoise Bertaut de Motteville , French memoirist (died
1689 )
[7]
Possible year (1621 or 1622) –
Richard Allestree , English scholar and cleric (died
1681 )
January 25 –
François Pithou , French author and jurist (born
1543 )
[8]
March 4 –
Ana de Jesús , Spanish nun and writer (born
1545 )
May 11 –
Johann Arndt , German theologian (born
1555 )
June –
William Strachey , English eye-witness historian (born
1572 )
August 3 –
Guillaume du Vair , French writer (born
1556 )
August 15 –
John Barclay , Scottish writer (born
1582 )
September 25 –
Mary Sidney , English playwright and translator (born
1561 )
October 7 or
8 –
Antoine de Montchrestien , French adventurer and dramatist (born c. 1575)
December 4 –
Andrew Willet , English polemicist and cleric (born
1562 )
unknown date –
Ludwig Hollonius , German dramatist (born c. 1570)
[9]
^ Some sources such as the Dictionary of National Biography (1885) and the Encyclopædia Britannica , 11th edition spell the title "St. Albans";
[1]
[2] others, such as the 2007 Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and the
Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th edition , spell it "St. Alban".
[3]
[4]
^ Fowler, Thomas (1885).
"Bacon, Francis (1561–1626)" . In
Stephen, Leslie (ed.).
Dictionary of National Biography . Vol. 2. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 346.
^ This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
public domain :
Adamson, Robert ; Mitchell, John Malcolm (1911), "
Bacon, Francis ", in
Chisholm, Hugh (ed.),
Encyclopædia Britannica , vol. 3 (11th ed.), Cambridge University Press, p. 135
^ Peltonen, Markku (2007) [2004]. "Bacon, Francis, Viscount St Alban (1561–1626)".
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press.
doi :
10.1093/ref:odnb/990 . (Subscription or
UK public library membership required.)
^
Adamson, Robert (1878),
"Francis Bacon" , in Baynes, T. S. (ed.),
Encyclopædia Britannica , vol. 3 (9th ed.), New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, p. 200
^ Williams, Hywel (2005).
Cassell's Chronology of World History . London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
ISBN
0-304-35730-8 .
^ Alexandra G. Bennett (23 August 2017).
The Collected Works of Jane Cavendish . Taylor & Francis. p. 9.
ISBN
978-1-317-03786-6 .
^ Françoise de Motteville (1902).
Memoirs of Madame de Motteville on Anne of Austria and Her Court . Hardy, Pratt. p. 1.
^
Theologische Literaturzeitung (in German).
Evangelische Verlagsanstalt . 1971. p. 51.
^ Richard Erich Schade (1976).
Martin Böhme (1557-1622): The Lutheran Pastor as Writer . Yale University. p. 170.