1726 in literature

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Contents 1 Events 2 New books 3 Poetry 4 Non-fiction 5 Births 6 Deaths

[edit] Events

• Lavinia Fenton makes her debut as Monimia in Thomas Otway's The Orphan at the Haymarket Theatre.
• Françoise-Louise de Warens converts to Catholicism.

[edit] New books

• Jonathan Swift - Gulliver's Travels

[edit] Poetry

• Richard Savage - Miscellaneous Poems
• Jonathan Swift - Advice to the Grub Street Verse-writers

[edit] Non-fiction

• John Balguy - A letter to a Deist concerning the Beauty and Excellency of Moral Virtue, and the Support and Improvement which it receives from the Christian Religion
• Lewis Theobald - Shakespeare Restored

[edit] Births

• April 7 - Charles Burney, music historian and father of Fanny Burney
• June 14 - Thomas Pennant, Welsh naturalist and writer (died 1798)
• September 25 - Angelo Maria Bandini, author and librarian (died 1800)
• date unknown
  • John H. D. Anderson, natural philosopher (died 1796)

[edit] Deaths

• March 26 - Sir John Vanbrugh, dramatist and architect (born 1664)
• April 5 - Ludwig Babenstuber, theologian and philosopher (born 1660)
• May 20 - Nicholas Brady, poet (born 1659)
• December 2 - Samuel Penhallow, historian (born 1665)
• date unknown
  • Jeremy Collier, theologian and critic
  • Daniel Whitby, theologian