Editing 1722 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of '''1722'''.

==Events==
*[[January 27]] – [[Daniel Defoe]]'s novel ''[[Moll Flanders]]'' is published anonymously in London under its full title: ''The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders, &c. Who was Born in Newgate, and during a Life of continu'd Variety for Threescore Years, besides her Childhood, was Twelve Year a Whore, five times a Wife (whereof once to her own Brother), Twelve Year a Thief, Eight Year a Transported Felon in Virginia, at last grew Rich, liv'd Honest, and died a Penitent. Written from her own Memorandums''.
*March – Defoe's ''[[A Journal of the Plague Year]]'' is published under the initials H. F., purporting to be an eyewitness account of the [[Great Plague of London]] in 1665.
*[[August 24]] – [[Francis Atterbury]], [[Bishop of Rochester]], is arrested in his deanery and confined in the [[Tower of London]], accused of leading the [[Jacobitism|Jacobite]] "[[Atterbury Plot]]" in support of the [[pretender]] to the British throne, [[James Francis Edward Stuart]] of the [[House of Stuart]].<ref>{{cite ODNB |first=D. W. |last=Hayton |title=Atterbury, Francis (1663–1732) |year=2004 |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/871 |accessdate=2012-11-22 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/871}} </ref>
*September–October – [[Voltaire]] and [[Jean-Baptiste Rousseau]] meet and quarrel at [[Brussels]].
*[[September 23]] – [[Lille Grønnegade Theatre]] opens in [[Copenhagen]], the first [[Danish language|Danish-language]] theater open to the public. The company consists of immigrant French actors who previously worked in the Danish royal theatre, with [[Ludvig Holberg]] as house dramatist. The comedies he writes for them this year include ''Jean de France''.
*[[October 11]] – Ten-year-old [[Jean-Jacques Rousseau]] is abandoned by his father, Isaac, who flees Geneva to avoid prosecution.<ref name="Cranston1991">{{cite book|author=Maurice Cranston|title=[[Jean-Jacques: The Early Life and Work of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712–1754]]|date=1991|publisher=University of Chicago Press|isbn=978-0-226-11862-8|pages=[https://books.google.com/books?id=cVYfjBPfUYIC&pg=PA28 28]–}}</ref>
*[[November 7]] – [[Richard Steele|Sir Richard Steele]]'s "sentimental comedy" ''[[The Conscious Lovers]]'' (loosely based on [[Terence]]) opens at the [[Theatre Royal, Drury Lane]], London with an initial run of eighteen consecutive nights.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Broadview Anthology of Restoration and Early Eighteenth Century Drama |editor=Canfield, J. Douglas |year=2001}}</ref>
*December – Defoe's [[picaresque novel]] ''[[Colonel Jack]]'', sharing many plot elements with ''Moll Flanders'', is published.
*Construction of a new building for the ''Hof-Bibliothek'' ("Imperial Library") in [[Vienna]], the modern-day [[Austrian National Library]], begins.
*[[Edmund Bolton]]'s ''Hypercritica'' is published, a century after it was written.
*Sharafuddin Ali Yazdi's ''Zafar Nama'' ("History of Timur", 1425) is published in a French translation by [[François Pétis de la Croix]] (d. [[1713 in literature|1713]]).
*[[William Wood (ironmaster)]] commences the minting (in [[London]]) of [[copper]] [[Halfpenny (British pre-decimal coin)|halfpence]] and [[Farthing (Irish coin)|farthing]]s under patent for circulation in Ireland<ref>{{cite journal |first=Brian J. |last=Danforth |title=Wood's Money: Acceptance or Rejection in Ireland |journal=The C4 Newsletter |volume=8 |issue=3 |date=Fall 2000 |pages=17–36}}</ref> which will be the subject of the first of [[Jonathan Swift]]'s ''[[Drapier's Letters]]''.<ref>''A Letter To the Shop-Keepers, Tradesmen, Farmers, and Common-People of Ireland, Concerning the Brass Half-Pence Coined by Mr. Woods'' ([[1724 in literature|1724]]).{{cite book |last=Scott |first=Temple |title=The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, vol. '''VI''': The Drapier's Letters |chapter=Letter 1, Introductory Note |location=London: George Bell and Sons |year=1903}}</ref>

==New books==
===Prose===
*[[Penelope Aubin]] (fiction)
**''The Life and Amorous Adventures of Lucinda''
**''The Noble Slaves''
*[[Phanuel Bacon]] – ''The Kite''
*[[Daniel Bellamy, the elder|Daniel Bellamy]] – ''The Cambro-Britannic Engineer''
*[[Thomas Cooke (author)|Thomas Cooke]] – ''Marlborough'' (written after his death)
*[[Samuel Croxall]] – ''Fables of Aesop and Others, newly done into English with an Application to each Fable''
*[[Daniel Defoe]]
**''[[Moll Flanders]]''<ref>{{cite book |last1=Day |first1=Gary |last2=Lynch |first2=Jack |title=The Encyclopedia of British Literature, 3 Volume Set: 1660 - 1789 |date=9 March 2015 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |isbn=978-1-4443-3020-5 |page=950 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ThBhBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA950 |language=en}}</ref>
**''[[A Journal of the Plague Year]]''
**''[[Colonel Jack]]''
**''Due Preparations for the Plague''
**''Religious Courtship''
*[[John Dennis (dramatist)|John Dennis]] – ''A Defence of Sir Fopling Flutter''
*[[Johann Georg Gichtel]] – ''Theosophia Practica''
*[[William Hamilton (comic poet)|William Hamilton]] – ''The Life and Heroick Actions of the Renoun'd [[William Wallace|Sir William Wallace]]''
*[[Eliza Haywood]] – ''The British Recluse'' (fiction)
*[[Hildebrand Jacob]] – ''Bedlam''
*[[Allan Ramsay (poet)|Allan Ramsay]] – ''Fables and Tales''
*[[Jean de la Roque]] – ''Voyage en Syrie et au mont Liban''
*[[Charles Sedley|Sir Charles Sedley]] – ''Works''
*[[William Sewel]] – ''The History of the Rise, Increase, and Progress of the Christian People Called Quakers''
*[[Jonathan Swift]] – ''A Satirical Elegy on the Death of a Late Famous General'' (satire on [[John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough|Marlborough]], written before his death)
*[[Matthew Tindal]] – ''A Defence of Our Present Happy Establishment''
*[[Isaac Watts]] – ''Death and Heaven''
*[[William Wollaston]] – ''[[The Religion of Nature Delineated]]''
*[[Antonio de Zamora]] – ''Comedias nuevas''

===Children===
*[[Samuel Croxall]] – ''Fables of [[Aesop]] and Others''

===Drama===
*[[Henry Carey (writer)|Henry Carey]] – ''[[Hanging and Marriage]]''<ref>{{cite book|author1=Paul Baines|author2=Julian Ferraro|author3=Pat Rogers|title=The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Eighteenth-Century Writers and Writing 1660-1789|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bDheyN3vRmUC&pg=PT105|date=28 December 2010|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=978-1-4443-9008-7|pages=105}}</ref>
*[[Susanna Centlivre]] – ''[[The Artifice (play)|The Artifice]]''
*[[Ludvig Holberg]]
**''Jean de France eller Hans Frandsen''
**''[[Jeppe on the Hill|Jeppe paa Bjerget eller den forvandlede Bonde (Jeppe of the Hill, or The Transformed Peasant)]]''
**''[[Gert Westphaler|Mester Gert Westphaler]]''
**''[[The Political Tinker|Den Politiske Kandestøber (The Political Tinker)]]''
**''[[Den vægelsindede|Den Vægelsindede (The Weathervane)]]''
*[[Pierre de Marivaux]] – ''[[La Surprise de l'amour]]''
*[[Ambrose Philips]] – ''[[The Briton]]''
* William Phillips – ''[[Hibernia Freed]]''<ref name="Burling1992">{{cite book|author=William J. Burling|title=A Checklist of New Plays and Entertainments on the London Stage, 1700-1737|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HMQJxeNpHR0C&pg=PA97|year=1992|publisher=Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press|isbn=978-0-8386-3451-6|pages=97–100}}</ref>
*[[Archibald Pitcairne]] – ''The Assembly, or Scotch Reformation''
*[[Richard Steele]] – ''[[The Conscious Lovers]]''<ref name="Burling1992"/>
*[[James Sterling (poet)|James Sterling]] – ''[[The Rival Generals]]''
*John Sturmy – 
** ''[[The Compromise (play)|The Compromise]]''
** ''[[Love and Duty (play)|Love and Duty]]''<ref name="Burling1992"/>
* John Williams – ''[[Richmond Wells]]''<ref name="Burling1992"/>

===Poetry===
{{main article|1722 in poetry}}
*[[Thomas Parnell (poet)|Thomas Parnell]] – ''Poems on Several Occasions''
*[[Elizabeth Thomas (poet, born 1675)|Elizabeth Thomas]] – ''Miscellany Poems on Several Subjects''

==Births==
*[[February 24]] – [[John Burgoyne]], English dramatist, army officer and politician (died [[1792 in literature|1792]])
*[[February 26]] – [[Mary Leapor]], English working-class poet (died [[1746 in literature|1746]])
*April – [[Joseph Warton]], English poet and critic (died [[1800 in literature|1800]])
*[[April 11]] – [[Christopher Smart]], English poet (died [[1771 in literature|1771]])
*[[September 22]] – [[John Home]], Scottish dramatist (died [[1808 in literature|1808]])
*[[October 4]] – [[Dominic Schram]] or Schramm, German theologian (died [[1797 in literature|1797]])
*''Unknown dates''
**[[John Brown of Haddington]], Scottish theologian (died [[1787 in literature|1787]])<ref>{{cite book|title=The United Presbyterian and Evangelical Guardian|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rTsbAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA454|year=1848|publisher=J.A. & U.P. James|pages=454}}</ref>
**[[Paisius of Hilendar]], Bulgarian historian and clergyman, early figure in the [[Bulgarian National Revival]] (died [[1773 in literature|1773]])
**[[Waris Shah]], Punjabi Muslim poet (died [[1798 in literature|1798]])

==Deaths==
*[[January 23]] – [[Henri de Boulainvilliers]], French historian (born [[1658 in literature|1658]])
*[[March 11]] – [[John Toland]], Irish philosopher (born [[1670 in literature|1670]])
*August – [[Robert Sibbald]], Scottish antiquary (born [[1641 in literature|1641]])
*[[September 11]] – [[Johann Michael Heineccius]], German theologian (born [[1674 in literature|1674]])
*[[September 18]] – [[André Dacier]], French scholar (born [[1651 in literature|1651]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Merriam-Webster, Inc|title=Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eKNK1YwHcQ4C&pg=PA294|year=1995|publisher=Merriam-Webster|isbn=978-0-87779-042-6|pages=294}}</ref>
*[[December 26]] – [[Jan František Beckovský]], Czech historian and translator (born [[1658 in literature|1658]])

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