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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 .