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Everything about 1709 In Literature totally explainedThe year 1709 in literature involved some significant events.
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New books
Various - The Female Tatler
Anonymous - Memoirs of the Life and Adventures of Signor Rozelli
Mary Astell - Bart'lemy Fair
Thomas Baker -Reflections on Learning, showing the Insufficiency thereof in its several particulars, in order to evince the usefulness and necessity of Revelation, vol. 1
George Berkeley - An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision
Richard Blackmore - Instructions to Vander Beck
Samuel Cobb - The Female Reign
Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury - Sensus Communis (philosophy)
Daniel Defoe - The History of the Union of Great Britain
Charles Gildon - The Golden Spy (satire)
White Kennett - A Vindication of the Church and Clergy of England
William King - Miscellanies in Prose and Verse
John Lawson - A New Voyage to Carolina
Delarivière Manley - The New Atalantis
William Shakespeare - The Works of Mr William Shakespear (edited by Nicholas Rowe, the first edition with scene divisions)
John Strype - Annals of the Reformation and Establishment of Religion
Jonathan Swift - A Famous Prediction of Merlin
- A Project for the Advancement of Religion and the Reformation of Manners ("By a Person of Quality")
- A Vindication of Isaac Bickerstaff
William Temple - Memoirs: Part III (ed. Jonathan Swift)
John Trenchard -The Natural History of Superstition
New drama
Anthony Aston - Love in a Hurry
Susanna Centlivre - The Busie Body
Colley Cibber - The Rival Fools
Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon - Electre
John Dennis - Appius and Virginia
Thomas d'Urfey - The Modern Prophets
Juan Claudio de la Hoz y Mota - José, salvador de Egipto
Charles Johnson - Love and Liberty (not performed)
Alain-René Lesage - Turcaret
Mary Pix - The Adventures in Madrid
Poetry
John Reynolds - Death's Vision Represented in a Philosophical Sacred Poem
Poetical Miscellanies: The Sixth Part (aka "Tonson's Miscllanies")
Births
April 14 - Charles Collé, dramatists
August 7 - Jean-Jacques Lefranc, marquis de Pompignan, French poet (died 1784)
August 29 - Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset, poet and dramatist (died 1777)
September 18 - Samuel Johnson (died 1784)
December 25 - Julien Offray de La Mettrie, French author (died 1751)
unknown date
probable
Deaths
February 15 - John Philips, poet (born 1676)
June 30 - Edward Lhuyd, naturalist (born 1660)
July 8 - Gustaf Adlerfelt, historian (born 1671)
December 8 - Thomas Corneille, dramatist (born 1625)
date unknown
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