1669 in literature

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The year 1669 in literature involved some significant events.

Events

May 31 - Samuel Pepys makes the last entry in his diary.
The final section of Parthenissa, the prose romance by Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery, is published. Earlier portions of the work had appeared in 1651 and 1654–56.

Hans von Grimmelshausen – Simplicius Simplicissimus (first major novel in the German language)
Anonymous (Gabriel-Joseph de la Vergne?) – Letters of a Portuguese Nun (Les Lettres portugaises)
Blaise Pascal – Pensees (published posthumously)
Jan Swammerdam – Algemeene Verhandeling van de bloedeloose dierkens
John Wagstaffe – The Question of Witchcraft Debated

December 16 - Joseph-Anne-Marie de Moyriac de Mailla, Jesuit missionary and translator (died 1748)
date unknown
- Nicholas Blundell, diarist (died 1737)
- Lady Lucy Herbert, devotional writer (died 1744)
- Jiang Tingxi, encyclopaedist (died 1732)

February 3 - Catharina Questiers, Dutch poet and dramatist (born 1631)
March 19 – John Denham, poet (born 1615)
September 30 – Henry King, poet (born 1592)
November 10 - Elisabeth Pepys, wife of Samuel Pepys and frequently mentioned in his diary (born 1640; typhoid)^[1]
December 16 – Nathaniel Fiennes, soldier, politician and pamphleteer (born c.1608)
December 24 - Henry Foulis, theologian and controversialist (born 1638)

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