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Overview of the events of 1773 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1773 .
Events
January –
Christoph Martin Wieland begins publishing the influential literary monthly
Der Teutsche Merkur in
Weimar .
[1]
[2]
March 15 –
Oliver Goldsmith 's comedy
She Stoops to Conquer is performed for the first time, at the
Covent Garden Theatre in
London .
[3]
April 13 –
Richard Brinsley Sheridan marries singer and actress
Elizabeth Ann Linley .
[4]
May 1 –
Richard Wroughton takes the role of Prince Henry in Henry II, King of England by
John Bancroft at Covent Garden.
May 4 –
Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill composes the
keen
Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire over the body of her husband
Art Ó Laoghaire .
[5]
August 6 –
Samuel Johnson sets out for
Scotland ,
[6] where on August 14 he meets
James Boswell in
Edinburgh for their tour to the
Hebrides .
[7]
September 1 –
Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral by
Phillis Wheatley (described as "Negro Servant to Mr. John Wheatley, of Boston, in New England"), the first work of an African American female writer to be published in English, including "On Being Brought from Africa to America", is published in
Aldgate ,
London by Archibald Bell, bookseller, because publishers in
Boston, Massachusetts , had declined to publish it and Wheatley and her master's son, Nathanial Wheatley, had come to London where
Selina, Countess of Huntingdon and the
Earl of Dartmouth helped with the publication.
[8]
unknown dates
New books
Fiction
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
April 9 –
Étienne Aignan , French translator, librettist and dramatist (died
1824 in literature )
May 19 –
Jean Charles Léonard de Sismondi , Swiss scholar of literature, history and economics (died
1842 )
August 21 –
Jens Christian Djurhuus , Faroese poet (died
1853 )
October 23 –
Francis Jeffrey , Scottish jurist and critic (died
1850 )
December 9 –
Marianne Ehrenström , Swedish musician and writer (died
1867 )
[10]
unknown date –
Margaret Prior , American humanitarian, missionary, social reformer, memoirist (died
1842 )
Deaths
January 21 –
Alexis Piron , French dramatist and epigrammatist (born
1689 )
April 20 –
Hubert-François Gravelot , French book illustrator (born
1699 )
April 25 –
Daniele Farlati , ecclesiastical historian (born
1690 )
May 15 –
Alban Butler , hagiographer (born
1710 )
July 5 –
Francisco José Freire , Portuguese historian and philologist (born
1719 )
August 3 –
Stanisław Konarski , Polish political writer, poet and dramatist (born
1700 )
August 20 –
Enrique Florez , Spanish historian (born
1729 )
August 28 –
John Ranby , English surgeon and writer on surgery (born
1703 )
September 18 –
John Cunningham , Irish poet, dramatist and actor (born
1729 )
November 16 –
John Hawkesworth , English poet and editor (born c. 1715)
unknown date –
Paisius of Hilendar , Bulgarian historian and clergyman, early figure in the
Bulgarian National Revival (born
1722 )
References