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Overview of the events of 1764 in literature
This article is a summary of literary events and publications during 1764 .
January 23 –
Morris Birkbeck , American writer and social reformer (died
1825 )
February 11 –
Joseph Chénier , French poet (died
1811 )
[10]
March 6 –
Catharina Heybeek , Dutch journalist, feminist and editor (died
1810 )
April 29 –
Ann Hatton (Ann of Swansea), English novelist (died
1838 )
[11]
May 7 –
Therese Huber , German writer and scholar (died
1829 )
[12]
June 19 –
John Barrow , English writer, geographer and linguist (died
1848 )
[13]
June 23 –
Gabriel-Marie Legouvé , French poet and dramatist (died
1812 )
July 4 –
Prokop František Šedivý , Czech playwright, actor, and translator (died c. 1810)
July 9 –
Ann Radcliffe , English Gothic novelist (died
1823 )
[14]
August 18 –
Judah Leib Ben-Ze'ev ,
Galician Jewish
modern Hebrew philologist, lexicographer, Biblical scholar and poet (died
1811 )
October 19 –
Victor-Joseph Étienne de Jouy , French dramatist (died
1846 )
November 1 –
Frederick Reynolds , English dramatist (died
1841 )
December 3 –
Mary Lamb , English miscellanist and co-author with brother
Charles Lamb (died
1847 )
[15]
unknown date –
Sophie de Condorcet , French salonist and feminist (d.
1822 )
[16]
April 17 –
Johann Mattheson , German writer, lexicographer and musician (born
1681 )
June 18 –
Christmas Samuel , Welsh-language writer and Independent minister (born
1674 )
July 30 –
Philipp Hafner , Austrian writer of farce (born
1735 )
September 23 –
Robert Dodsley , English miscellanist and bookseller (born
1703 )
[17]
October 23 –
Pierre-Charles Roy , French poet and librettist (born
1683 )
November 1 –
Agustín de Montiano y Luyando , Spanish dramatist (born
1697 )
November 4 –
Charles Churchill , English poet and satirist (born 1731)
December 15 –
Robert Lloyd , English poet and satirist (born
1733 )
December 18 –
Mattheus Pinna da Encarnaçao , Spanish Benedictine theologian (born
1687 )
^ Williams, Hywel (2005).
Cassell's Chronology of World History . London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp.
322–323 .
ISBN
0-304-35730-8 .
^ Murray, John, ed. (1897). The Autobiographies of Edward Gibbon (2nd ed.). London: John Murray. p. 302.
^ Saunders, J. J. (1964).
"Gibbon in Rome 1764" .
History Today . 14 (9): 608–15. Retrieved 2013-12-12 .
^ Antonia Forster (1990).
Index to Book Reviews in England, 1749-1774 . SIU Press. p. 64.
ISBN
978-0-8093-1406-5 .
^ Antonia Forster (1990).
Index to Book Reviews in England, 1749-1774 . SIU Press. p. 121.
ISBN
978-0-8093-1406-5 .
^
Women & Literature . Transaction Periodicals Consortium. 1975. p. 38.
^ Sir Charles Morell (1766).
The Tales of the Genii: Or, The Delightful Lessons of Horam, the Son of Asmar . J. Wilkie. p. 2.
^
"ENGLISH POETRY 1579-1830: SPENSER AND THE TRADITION" . Accessed 2 January 2013
^
Orlando Project – Mary Latter . Accessed 2 January 2013
^ Robert Aldrich; Martyn Lyons (1999).
The Sphinx in the Tuileries and Other Essays in Modern French History: Papers Presented at the Eleventh George Rudé Seminar . Department of Economic History, University of Sydney. p. 28.
ISBN
978-1-86487-026-8 .
^ Philip H. Highfill; Kalman A. Burnim; Edward A. Langhans (1982).
A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers & Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800 . SIU Press. p. 171.
ISBN
978-0-8093-0918-4 .
^ Katharina M. Wilson; M. Wilson (1991).
An Encyclopedia of Continental Women Writers . Taylor & Francis. p. 573.
ISBN
978-0-8240-8547-6 .
^
"Ulverston Borough Council biography. Retrieved 28 June 2020" . Archived from
the original on 29 June 2020. Retrieved 28 June 2020 .
^ Robert Miles (1995).
Ann Radcliffe: The Great Enchantress . Manchester University Press. p. 21.
ISBN
978-0-7190-3829-7 .
^ Anne Burrows Gilchrist (1883).
Mary Lamb . Roberts Bros. p. 2.
ISBN
978-0-932062-63-5 .
^ Paul Hyland; Olga Gomez; Francesca Greensides (2003).
The Enlightenment: A Sourcebook and Reader . Psychology Press. p. 27.
ISBN
978-0-415-20448-4 .
^ Robert Dodsley (22 January 2004).
The Correspondence of Robert Dodsley: 1733-1764 . Cambridge University Press. p. 20.
ISBN
978-0-521-52208-3 .