1740 in literature

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

[edit] Events

• John Cleland returns to Britain from government service in India.

[edit] New books

• Samuel Richardson - Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded
• Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve -La jeune américaine, et les contes marins

[edit] New drama

• David Garrick - Lethe: or, Aesop in the Shades

[edit] Non-fiction

• Johann Jakob Bodmer - Von dem Wunderbaren in der Poesie

[edit] Births

• June 2 - Marquis de Sade (died 1814)
• June 6 - Louis-Sébastien Mercier, dramatist (died 1814)
• September 2 - Johann Georg Jacobi, poet (died 1814)
• September 12 - Johann Heinrich Jung (Heinrich Stilling), novelist (died 1817)
• October 29 - James Boswell (died 1795)
• November 4 - Augustus Montague Toplady, poet, theologian and hymn-writer (died 1778)
• date unknown
  • Giovanni Cristofano Amaduzzi, philologist (died 1782)
  • Juan Andrés, historian (died 1817)
  • Jean Louis Delolme, constitutional writer (died 1806)

[edit] Deaths

• January - John Adams, poet (born 1704)
• April 23 - Thomas Tickell, poet (born 1685)
• May 15 - Ephraim Chambers, encyclopaedist (born about 1680)
• June 1 - Samuel Werenfels, theologian (born 1657)
• October 5 - Johann Philipp Baratier, scholar (born 1721)
• date unknown
  • Johann Georg Abicht, theologian (born 1672)
  • Daniel Waterland, theologian (born 1683)