1769 in literature
Overview of the events of 1769 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1769 .
Events
New books
Fiction
Poetry
Drama
Non-fiction
Births
January 1 – Jane Marcet , née Haldimand, English science writer (died 1858 )
February 9 – Susette Borkenstein Gontard , German lover of poet Friedrich Hölderlin (died 1802 )
March 7 – Richmal Mangnall , English schoolbook writer (died 1820 )
May 21 – John Hookham Frere , English diplomat and author (died 1846 )
September 9 (August 29 O.S. ) – Ivan Kotliarevsky , Ukrainian writer (died 1838 )
September 14 – Alexander von Humboldt , German explorer, natural philosopher and educator (died 1859 )
November 12 – Amelia Opie , English novelist (died 1853 )
December 7 (baptised) – Ann Batten Cristall , English poet (died 1848 )
December 26 – Ernst Moritz Arndt , German patriotic author and poet (died 1860 )
Deaths
References
^ Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History . London: Century Ltd. pp. 224–225. ISBN 978-0-7126-5616-0 .
^ Frearson, Alan (1984). "The Identity of Junius". Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies . 7 (2): 211–227. doi :10.1111/j.1754-0208.1984.tb00089.x .
^ Meyerstein, Edward Harry William (1930). A Life of Thomas Chatterton . London: Ingpen and Grant.
^ Pierce, Patricia (2004). The Great Shakespeare Fraud: the Strange, True Story of William-Henry Ireland . Stroud: Sutton Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7509-3393-3 .
^ Watson, George (2 July 1971). The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 2, 1660-1800 . Cambridge University Press. p. 229. ISBN 978-0-521-07934-1 .
^ Turner, Erin H. (2016). Wild West Women: Fifty Lives that Shaped the Frontier . Rowman & Littlefield. p. 207. ISBN 978-1-4930-2334-9 .
^ Birley, Robert (1962). Sunk without Trace: some forgotten masterpieces reconsidered . London: Rupert Hart-Davis.
^ Frederick Whiley Hilles (2 April 2015). Letters of Sir Joshua Reynolds . Cambridge University Press. p. 27. ISBN 978-1-107-49503-6 .