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

Events[edit]

January – Andrew Michael Ramsay goes to Rome to tutor the two sons of James Francis Edward Stuart, Jacobite pretender to the British throne.^[1]
August – Thomas Longman establishes the Longman publishing house in London.^[2]
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.^[3]

New books[edit]

Prose[edit]

Anonymous (attributed to Daniel Defoe) – A Narrative of All the Robberies, Escapes, &c. of John Sheppard
Gilbert Burnet (died 1715) – Bishop Burnet's History of His Own Time, Vol. I
Samuel Clarke – Sermons of Samuel Clarke
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)
Daniel Defoe
- Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress^[4]
- A New Voyage Round the World
- A Tour thro' the Whole Island of Great Britain
John Dennis – Vice and Luxury Publick Mischiefs (on 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, ed. – Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle
Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon (died 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[edit]

Colley Cibber – Caesar in Egypt^[5]
John Gay – The Captives^[6]
Ludvig Holberg – Henrich og Pernille (Henrik and Pernille)^[7]
Robert Hurst – The Roman Maid^[6]
George Jeffreys – Edwin
Pierre de Marivaux – La Fausse Suivante^[8]
William Phillips – Belisarius
John Rich – The Necromancer; or, History of Dr. Faustus^[9]

Poetry[edit]

Matthew Concanen – Miscellaneous Poems
Eliza Haywood – Poems on Several Occasions
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[edit]

January 12 – Frances Brooke, English novelist and dramatist (died 1789)
March 20 – Duncan Ban MacIntyre, Scottish Gaelic poet (died 1812)
April 22 – Immanuel Kant German philosopher (died 1804)
June 4 – William Gilpin, English writer, painter and originator of "picturesque" (died 1804)
July 2 – Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, German poet (died 1803)^[10]
July 26 – Ji Yun (纪昀), Chinese poet and scholar (died 1805)
July 31 – Noël François de Wailly, French grammarian and lexicographer (died 1801)
October 31 – Christopher Anstey, English writer and poet (died 1805)^[11]
December 13 – Franz Aepinus, German natural philosopher (died 1802)
Unknown dates
- Samuel Derrick, Irish writer (died 1769)^[12]
- Frances Sheridan (Frances Chamberlaine), Irish novelist and dramatist (died 1766)^[13]

Deaths[edit]

January 1 – Charles Gildon, English critic and dramatist (born c. 1665)
January 15 – George Wheler, English travel writer (born 1651)^[14]
February 5 – Mary Cowper, English diarist (born 1685)
February 12 – Elkanah Settle, English poet and dramatist (born 1648)^[15]
March 19 – Johann Christian Thomae, German historian and biographer (born 1668)^[16]
July 11 – Delarivier Manley, writer, playwright and pamphleteer (born c. 1663)^[17]
August 15 – Manko, Japanese poet (year of birth not known)
October 6 – Charles Rivière Dufresny, French dramatist (born 1648)^[18]
October 29 – William Wollaston, English philosophical writer (born 1659)^[19]
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)
probable – Proinsias Ó Doibhlin, Irish poet and priest (year of birth not known)

References[edit]

^ Cherel, Albert: "André Michel Ramsay – Sa vie" – Chapter II of Fénelon au XVIIIe siècle en France. Paris: Librairie Hachette, 1917.
^ Charles James Longman (1936). The House of Longman, 1724-1800: A Bibliographical History with a List of Signs Used by Booksellers of that Period. Longmans, Green and Company. p. 3.
^ Philip Rawlings (24 October 2005). Drunks, Whores and Idle Apprentices: Criminal Biographies of the Eighteenth Century. Routledge. p. 38. ISBN 978-1-134-94252-7.
^ Day, Gary; Lynch, Jack (9 March 2015). The Encyclopedia of British Literature, 3 Volume Set: 1660 - 1789. John Wiley & Sons. p. 950. ISBN 978-1-4443-3020-5.
^ Pierre Danchin (1 January 1993). The prologues and epilogues of the eighteenth century. Presses universitaires de Nancy. pp. 164–167. ISBN 978-2-86480-168-9.
^ ^a ^b Allardyce Nicoll (1927). A History of Early Eighteenth Century Drama: 1700-1750. CUP Archive. p. 31.
^ Frank Northen Magill (1986). Critical Survey of Drama: Authors. Salem Press. p. 944. ISBN 978-0-89356-385-1.
^ Christie McDonald; Susan Rubin Suleiman (2011). French Global: A New Approach to Literary History. Columbia University Press. p. 363. ISBN 978-0-231-14741-5.
^ Caroline Eck; James McAllister; Renée van de Vall (11 May 1995). The Question of Style in Philosophy and the Arts. Cambridge University Press. p. 69. ISBN 978-0-521-47341-5.
^ Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1920). "Klopstock, Friedrich Gottlieb" . Encyclopedia Americana.
^ Merrett, Robert James. "Anstey, Christopher". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/579. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ James Boswell (1899). The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides. John W. Lovell Company. p. 106.
^ Frances Chamberlaine Sheridan (1984). The Plays of Frances Sheridan. University of Delaware Press. p. 13. ISBN 978-0-87413-243-4.
^ 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: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004 (Online)
^ This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Settle, Elkanah". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
^ (in German) 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.
^ Ros Ballaster, ‘Manley, Delarivier (c.1670–1724)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004.
^ One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Dufresny, Charles". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 8 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 646–647.
^ Young, B. W. "Wollaston, William". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/29841. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

[1] Cherel, Albert: "André Michel Ramsay – Sa vie" – Chapter II of Fénelon au XVIIIe siècle en France. Paris: Librairie Hachette, 1917.

[2] Charles James Longman (1936). The House of Longman, 1724-1800: A Bibliographical History with a List of Signs Used by Booksellers of that Period. Longmans, Green and Company. p. 3.

[3] Philip Rawlings (24 October 2005). Drunks, Whores and Idle Apprentices: Criminal Biographies of the Eighteenth Century. Routledge. p. 38. ISBN 978-1-134-94252-7.

[4] Day, Gary; Lynch, Jack (9 March 2015). The Encyclopedia of British Literature, 3 Volume Set: 1660 - 1789. John Wiley & Sons. p. 950. ISBN 978-1-4443-3020-5.

[Danchin1993-5] Pierre Danchin (1 January 1993). The prologues and epilogues of the eighteenth century. Presses universitaires de Nancy. pp. 164–167. ISBN 978-2-86480-168-9.

[Nicoll1927-6] Allardyce Nicoll (1927). A History of Early Eighteenth Century Drama: 1700-1750. CUP Archive. p. 31.

[7] Frank Northen Magill (1986). Critical Survey of Drama: Authors. Salem Press. p. 944. ISBN 978-0-89356-385-1.

[8] Christie McDonald; Susan Rubin Suleiman (2011). French Global: A New Approach to Literary History. Columbia University Press. p. 363. ISBN 978-0-231-14741-5.

[9] Caroline Eck; James McAllister; Renée van de Vall (11 May 1995). The Question of Style in Philosophy and the Arts. Cambridge University Press. p. 69. ISBN 978-0-521-47341-5.

[10] Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1920). "Klopstock, Friedrich Gottlieb" . Encyclopedia Americana.

[11] Merrett, Robert James. "Anstey, Christopher". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/579. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

[12] James Boswell (1899). The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides. John W. Lovell Company. p. 106.

[13] Frances Chamberlaine Sheridan (1984). The Plays of Frances Sheridan. University of Delaware Press. p. 13. ISBN 978-0-87413-243-4.

[14] 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: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004 (Online)

[15] This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Settle, Elkanah". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.

[16] (in German) 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.

[17] Ros Ballaster, ‘Manley, Delarivier (c.1670–1724)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004.

[18] One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Dufresny, Charles". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 8 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 646–647.

[19] Young, B. W. "Wollaston, William". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/29841. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

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