Editing 1724 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of '''1724'''.

==Events==
*January – [[Andrew Michael Ramsay]] goes to Rome to tutor the two sons of [[James Francis Edward Stuart]], [[Jacobite succession|Jacobite pretender]] to the British throne.<ref>Cherel, Albert: "André Michel Ramsay – Sa vie" – Chapter II of ''Fénelon au XVIIIe siècle en France''. Paris: Librairie Hachette, 1917.</ref>
*August – [[Thomas Longman (1699–1755)|Thomas Longman]] establishes the [[Longman]] publishing house in London.<ref>{{cite book|author=Charles James Longman|title=The House of Longman, 1724-1800: A Bibliographical History with a List of Signs Used by Booksellers of that Period|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oEwZAAAAMAAJ|year=1936|publisher=Longmans, Green and Company|page=3}}</ref>
*[[November 16]] – An "autobiographical" ''Narrative'' of the life of notorious criminal [[Jack Sheppard]], said to be by [[Daniel Defoe]], goes on sale at Sheppard's execution at Tyburn.<ref>{{cite book|author=Philip Rawlings|title=Drunks, Whores and Idle Apprentices: Criminal Biographies of the Eighteenth Century|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ua2JAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA38|date=24 October 2005|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-94252-7|pages=38}}</ref>

==New books==
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===Prose===
*Anonymous (attributed to [[Daniel Defoe]]) – ''A Narrative of All the Robberies, Escapes, &c. of [[Jack Sheppard|John Sheppard]]''
*[[Gilbert Burnet]] (died [[1715 in literature|1715]]) – ''Bishop Burnet's History of His Own Time'', Vol. I{{cn|date=January 2025}}
*[[Samuel Clarke]] – ''Sermons of Samuel Clarke''{{cn|date=January 2025}}
*[[Anthony Collins (philosopher)|Anthony Collins]] – ''Discourse of the Grounds and Reasons of the Christian Religion'' with ''An Apology for Free Debate and Liberty of Writing''
*[[Mary Davys]] – ''[[The Reform'd Coquet]]'' (novella)<ref>{{cite book |title=Sex and Death in Eighteenth-Century Literature|chapter=2|author=Bonnie Blackwell|publisher=Taylor & Francis|year=2013|isbn=9781136182365}}</ref>
*[[Daniel Defoe]]
**''[[Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress]]''<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 New Voyage Round the World''
**''[[A Tour thro' the Whole Island of Great Britain]]''
*[[John Dennis (dramatist)|John Dennis]] – ''Vice and Luxury Publick Mischiefs'' (on [[Bernard de Mandeville|Mandeville]])
*[[Richard Fiddes]]
**''A General Treatise of Morality'' (on Mandeville)
**''The Life of Cardinal Wolsey''
*[[Eliza Haywood]]
**''La Belle Assemblé''
**''The Fatal Secret'' (fiction)
**''Lasselia''
**''The Masqueraders''
*[[Thomas Hearne (antiquarian)|Thomas Hearne]], ed. – ''[[Robert of Gloucester (historian)|Robert of Gloucester]]'s Chronicle''
*[[Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon]] (died [[1674 in literature|1674]]) – ''An Appendix to the History of the Grand Rebellion''
*[[Captain Charles Johnson]] (attributed to Daniel Defoe or [[Nathaniel Mist]]) – ''[[A General History of the Pyrates]]''
*[[William Law]] – ''Remarks Upon a Late Book'' (against Mandeville)
*[[John Oldmixon]] – ''The Critical History of England, Ecclesiastical and Civil''
*[[Paul de Rapin]] – ''L'Histoire d'Angleterre''
*[[Jonathan Swift]]
**''A Letter to the Shop-keepers... of Ireland'' (as M. B. Drapier)
**''A Letter to Mr. Harding the Printer'' (as Drapier)
**''Some Observations Upon a Paper Relating to Wood's Half-pence'' (as Drapier)
**''A Letter to the Whole People of Ireland'' (Drapier)
**''A Letter to the Right Honourable the Lord Viscount Molesworth'' (last of the ''[[Drapier letters]]'')
**''Seasonable Advice''
*[[Isaac Watts]] – ''Logic, or The Right Use of Reason in the Enquiry After Truth With a Variety of Rules to Guard Against Error in the Affairs of Religion and Human Life, as well as in the Sciences''

===Drama===
*[[Colley Cibber]] – ''[[Caesar in Egypt]]''<ref name="Danchin1993">{{cite book|author=Pierre Danchin|title=The prologues and epilogues of the eighteenth century|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rgZaAAAAMAAJ|date=1 January 1993|publisher=Presses universitaires de Nancy|isbn=978-2-86480-168-9|pages=164–167}}</ref>
*[[John Gay]] – ''[[The Captives (1724 play)|The Captives]]''<ref name="Nicoll1927">{{cite book|author=Allardyce Nicoll|title=A History of Early Eighteenth Century Drama: 1700-1750|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BHs3AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA31|year=1927|publisher=CUP Archive|pages=31}}</ref>
*[[Ludvig Holberg]] – ''Henrich og Pernille'' (Henrik and Pernille)<ref>{{cite book|author=Frank Northen Magill|title=Critical Survey of Drama: Authors|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W1ENAQAAMAAJ|year=1986|publisher=Salem Press|isbn=978-0-89356-385-1|page=944}}</ref>
* Robert Hurst – ''[[The Roman Maid]]''<ref name="Nicoll1927"/>
*George Jeffreys – ''[[Edwin (play)|Edwin]]''
*[[Pierre de Marivaux]] – ''[[La Fausse Suivante]]''<ref>{{cite book |author1=Christie McDonald |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JljqSrUR0I4C&pg=PA363 |title=French Global: A New Approach to Literary History |author2=[[Susan Rubin Suleiman]] |publisher=Columbia University Press |year=2011 |isbn=978-0-231-14741-5 |pages=363}}</ref>
* William Phillips – ''[[Belisarius (play)|Belisarius]]''
*[[John Rich (producer)|John Rich]] – ''The Necromancer; or, History of Dr. Faustus''<ref>{{cite book|author1=Caroline Eck|author2=James McAllister|author3=Renée van de Vall|title=The Question of Style in Philosophy and the Arts|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OWIiE0XWleMC&pg=PA69|date=11 May 1995|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-47341-5|pages=69}}</ref>

===Poetry===
*[[Matthew Concanen]] – ''Miscellaneous Poems''
*[[Eliza Haywood]] – ''Poems on Several Occasions''
*[[Allan Ramsay (poet)|Allan Ramsay]]
**''The Ever Green: Being a collection of Scots Poems''
**''Health''
*[[Elizabeth Tollet]] – ''Poems on Several Occasions''
*[[Voltaire]] – ''[[La Henriade]]''
*[[Leonard Welsted]] – ''Epistles, Odes, &c.''
*''See also [[1724 in poetry]]''

==Births==
*[[January 12]] – [[Frances Brooke]], English novelist and dramatist (died [[1789 in literature|1789]])
*[[March 20]] – [[Duncan Ban MacIntyre]], Scottish Gaelic poet (died [[1812 in literature|1812]])
*[[April 22]] – [[Immanuel Kant]] German philosopher (died [[1804 in literature|1804]])
*[[June 4]] – [[William Gilpin (clergyman)|William Gilpin]], English writer, painter and originator of "picturesque" (died [[1804 in literature|1804]])
*[[July 2]] – [[Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock]], German poet (died [[1803 in literature|1803]])<ref>{{Cite Americana|wstitle=Klopstock, Friedrich Gottlieb}}</ref>
*[[July 26]] – [[Ji Yun]] (纪昀), Chinese poet and scholar (died [[1805 in literature|1805]])
*[[July 31]] – [[Noël François de Wailly]], French grammarian and lexicographer (died [[1801 in literature|1801]])
*[[October 31]] – [[Christopher Anstey]], English writer and poet (died [[1805 in literature|1805]])<ref>{{cite ODNB|id=579|first=Robert James|last=Merrett|title=Anstey, Christopher}}</ref>
*[[December 13]] – [[Franz Aepinus]], German natural philosopher (died [[1802 in literature|1802]])
*''Unknown dates''
**[[Samuel Derrick]], Irish writer (died [[1769 in literature|1769]])<ref>{{cite book|author=James Boswell|title=The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Jg9HAQAAMAAJ|year=1899|publisher=John W. Lovell Company|page=106}}</ref>
**[[Frances Sheridan]] (Frances Chamberlaine), Irish novelist and dramatist (died [[1766 in literature|1766]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Frances Chamberlaine Sheridan|title=The Plays of Frances Sheridan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AzFY-YlRmjgC&pg=PA13|year=1984|publisher=University of Delaware Press|isbn=978-0-87413-243-4|pages=13}}</ref>

==Deaths==
*[[January 1]] – [[Charles Gildon]], English critic and dramatist (born c. 1665)
*[[January 15]] – [[George Wheler (travel writer)|George Wheler]], English travel writer (born [[1651 in literature|1651]])<ref>Robert W. Ramsey: ''Sir George Wheler and his Travels in Greece, 1650–1724.'' In: ''Essays by Divers Hands. Being the Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature.'' New Series, Volume 29, 1942, p. 1–38, and Nigel Guy Wilson: ''Wheler, Sir George (1651–1724).'' In: ''[[Dictionary of National Biography|Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]].'' Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004 ([https://web.archive.org/web/20050730073730/http://www.dur.ac.uk/m.d.eddy/HoSinDurhamWheler.html Online])</ref>
*[[February 5]] – [[Mary Cowper]], English diarist (born [[1685 in literature|1685]])
*[[February 12]] – [[Elkanah Settle]], English poet and dramatist (born [[1648 in literature|1648]])<ref>{{EB1911|wstitle=Settle, Elkanah}}</ref>
*[[March 19]] – [[Johann Christian Thomae]], German historian and biographer (born [[1668 in literature|1668]])<ref>{{in lang|de}} Thilo Krieg, “''Johann Christian Thomæ:  Geschichtsforscher und Biograph ( 1668 – 1724 )'' [ Johann Christian Thomä, Historian and Biographer ( 1668 – 1724 ) ]”, in :  ''Das geehrte und gelehrte Coburg. Ein lebensgeschichtliches Nachschlagebuch, Teil 1'' [ ''The Esteemed and Learned Coburg.  A Reference Book of History and Life, Part 1'' ] ( ''Coburger Heimatkunde und Heimatgeschichte, Band 5'' [ ''Local Customs and History of Coburg, Volume 5'' ]  ) ( Coburg :  A. Roßteutscher, 1927 ), page 46 ff.</ref>
*[[July 11]] – [[Delarivier Manley]], writer, playwright and pamphleteer (born c. 1663)<ref>[[Rosalind Ballaster|Ros Ballaster]], [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/17939 ‘Manley, Delarivier (c.1670–1724)’], ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004.</ref>
*[[August 15]] – [[Manko (poet)|Manko]], Japanese poet (year of birth not known)
*[[October 6]] – [[Charles Rivière Dufresny]], French dramatist (born [[1648 in literature|1648]])<ref>{{EB1911|inline=y|wstitle=Dufresny, Charles|volume=8|pages=646–647}}</ref>
*[[October 29]] – [[William Wollaston]], English philosophical writer (born [[1659 in literature|1659]])<ref>{{cite ODNB|id=29841|first=B. W.|last=Young|title=Wollaston, William}}</ref>
*[[November 29]] – [[Laurence Braddon]], English writer and politician (year of birth not known)
*November – [[Liam an Dúna Mac Cairteáin]], Irish poet and soldier (b. [[1668 in literature|1668]])
*''probable'' – [[Proinsias Ó Doibhlin]], Irish poet and priest (year of birth not known)

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