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Overview of the events of 1759 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1759 .
Events
New books
Fiction
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
January 25 –
Robert Burns , Scottish poet writing in
Braid Scots and English (died
1796 )
[5]
March 5 –
John Jamieson , Scottish lexicographer (died
1838 )
[6]
March 29 –
Alexander Chalmers , Scottish biographer and editor (died
1834 )
April 27 –
Mary Wollstonecraft , English political writer and advocate of women's rights (died
1797 )
[7]
May 4 (baptism) –
Isabella Kelly , Scottish novelist and poet (died
1857 )
[8]
June 17 –
Helen Maria Williams , English novelist, poet and translator from French (died
1827 )
October 13 –
Mary Hays , English writer and advocate of women's rights (died
1843 )
November 10 –
Friedrich Schiller , German poet and dramatist (died
1805 )
December 25 –
Richard Porson , English classicist (died
1808 )
unknown date –
Deen Mahomet , author of first book in English by an Indian (died
1851 )
[9]
Deaths
June 12 –
William Collins , English poet (born
1721 )
June 26 –
Arthur Young , English religious writer and cleric (born
1693 )
July 27 –
Pierre Louis Maupertuis , French philosopher (born
1698 )
July 29 –
Kata Bethlen , Hungarian memoirist and correspondent (born
1700 )
August 16 –
Eugene Aram , English philologist and murderer, hanged (born
1704 )
August 24 –
Ewald Christian von Kleist , German poet (born
1715 )
September 5 –
Lauritz de Thurah , Danish architectural historian (born
1706 )
October 7 –
Joseph Ames , English bibliographer and antiquary (born
1680 )
unknown date –
Francis Coventry , English clergyman and novelist (born
1725 )
[10]
probable –
Anton Wilhelm Amo , West African-born German philosopher (born
1703 )
References
^ Margaret Bald (14 May 2014).
Literature Suppressed on Religious Grounds . Infobase Publishing. p. 93.
ISBN
978-0-8160-7148-7 .
^ 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 .
^ 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.
^ William Cowper (1968).
The Correspondence of William Cowper . Ardent Media. p. 188.
^
"Pistols belonging to Robert Burns" . National Museums Scotland . Archived from
the original on 25 March 2019. Retrieved 25 March 2019 .
^
"Biography of John Jamieson" . www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk . Retrieved 20 March 2018 .
^
"Mary Wollstonecraft | Biography, Works, & Facts" . Encyclopedia Britannica . Retrieved 25 March 2019 .
^
"Kelly [née Fordyce; other married name Hedgeland], Isabella (bap. 1759, d. 1857), poet and novelist" .
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004.
doi :
10.1093/ref:odnb/37626 . Retrieved 25 March 2019 . (Subscription or
UK public library membership required.)
^ Michael H. Fisher, "Mahomed, Deen (1759–1851)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, UK: OUP), 2004
Retrieved 13 May 2017.
^
The Monthly Magazine: Or, British Register ... 1808. p. 588.