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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1724.

Events

• January – Andrew Michael Ramsay goes to Rome to tutor the two sons of James Francis Edward Stuart, Jacobite pretender to the British throne.[1]
• August – Thomas Longman establishes the Longman publishing house in London.[2]
• November 16 – An "autobiographical" Narrative of the life of notorious criminal Jack Sheppard, said to be by Daniel Defoe, goes on sale at Sheppard's execution at Tyburn.[3]

New books

Prose

• Anonymous (attributed to Daniel Defoe) – A Narrative of All the Robberies, Escapes, &c. of John Sheppard
• Gilbert Burnet (died 1715) – Bishop Burnet's History of His Own Time, Vol. I^[citation needed]
• Samuel Clarke – Sermons of Samuel Clarke^[citation needed]
• Anthony Collins – Discourse of the Grounds and Reasons of the Christian Religion with An Apology for Free Debate and Liberty of Writing
• Mary Davys – The Reform'd Coquet (novella)[4]
• Daniel Defoe
  • Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress[5]
  • A New Voyage Round the World
  • A Tour thro' the Whole Island of Great Britain
• John Dennis – Vice and Luxury Publick Mischiefs (on Mandeville)
• Richard Fiddes
  • A General Treatise of Morality (on Mandeville)
  • The Life of Cardinal Wolsey
• Eliza Haywood
  • La Belle Assemblé
  • The Fatal Secret (fiction)
  • Lasselia
  • The Masqueraders
• Thomas Hearne, ed. – Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle
• Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon (died 1674) – An Appendix to the History of the Grand Rebellion
• Captain Charles Johnson (attributed to Daniel Defoe or Nathaniel Mist) – A General History of the Pyrates
• William Law – Remarks Upon a Late Book (against Mandeville)
• John Oldmixon – The Critical History of England, Ecclesiastical and Civil
• Paul de Rapin – L'Histoire d'Angleterre
• Jonathan Swift
  • A Letter to the Shop-keepers... of Ireland (as M. B. Drapier)
  • A Letter to Mr. Harding the Printer (as Drapier)
  • Some Observations Upon a Paper Relating to Wood's Half-pence (as Drapier)
  • A Letter to the Whole People of Ireland (Drapier)
  • A Letter to the Right Honourable the Lord Viscount Molesworth (last of the Drapier letters)
  • Seasonable Advice
• Isaac Watts – Logic, or The Right Use of Reason in the Enquiry After Truth With a Variety of Rules to Guard Against Error in the Affairs of Religion and Human Life, as well as in the Sciences

Drama

• Colley Cibber – Caesar in Egypt[6]
• John Gay – The Captives[7]
• Ludvig Holberg – Henrich og Pernille (Henrik and Pernille)[8]
• Robert Hurst – The Roman Maid[7]
• George Jeffreys – Edwin
• Pierre de Marivaux – La Fausse Suivante[9]
• William Phillips – Belisarius
• John Rich – The Necromancer; or, History of Dr. Faustus[10]

Poetry

• Matthew Concanen – Miscellaneous Poems
• Eliza Haywood – Poems on Several Occasions
• Allan Ramsay
  • The Ever Green: Being a collection of Scots Poems
  • Health
• Elizabeth Tollet – Poems on Several Occasions
• Voltaire – La Henriade
• Leonard Welsted – Epistles, Odes, &c.
• See also 1724 in poetry

Births

• January 12 – Frances Brooke, English novelist and dramatist (died 1789)
• March 20 – Duncan Ban MacIntyre, Scottish Gaelic poet (died 1812)
• April 22 – Immanuel Kant German philosopher (died 1804)
• June 4 – William Gilpin, English writer, painter and originator of "picturesque" (died 1804)
• July 2 – Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, German poet (died 1803)[11]
• July 26 – Ji Yun (纪昀), Chinese poet and scholar (died 1805)
• July 31 – Noël François de Wailly, French grammarian and lexicographer (died 1801)
• October 31 – Christopher Anstey, English writer and poet (died 1805)[12]
• December 13 – Franz Aepinus, German natural philosopher (died 1802)
• Unknown dates
  • Samuel Derrick, Irish writer (died 1769)[13]
  • Frances Sheridan (Frances Chamberlaine), Irish novelist and dramatist (died 1766)[14]

Deaths

• January 1 – Charles Gildon, English critic and dramatist (born c. 1665)
• January 15 – George Wheler, English travel writer (born 1651)[15]
• February 5 – Mary Cowper, English diarist (born 1685)
• February 12 – Elkanah Settle, English poet and dramatist (born 1648)[16]
• March 19 – Johann Christian Thomae, German historian and biographer (born 1668)[17]
• July 11 – Delarivier Manley, writer, playwright and pamphleteer (born c. 1663)[18]
• August 15 – Manko, Japanese poet (year of birth not known)
• October 6 – Charles Rivière Dufresny, French dramatist (born 1648)[19]
• October 29 – William Wollaston, English philosophical writer (born 1659)[20]
• November 29 – Laurence Braddon, English writer and politician (year of birth not known)
• November – Liam an Dúna Mac Cairteáin, Irish poet and soldier (b. 1668)
• probable – Proinsias Ó Doibhlin, Irish poet and priest (year of birth not known)

References

1. Cherel, Albert: "André Michel Ramsay – Sa vie" – Chapter II of Fénelon au XVIIIe siècle en France. Paris: Librairie Hachette, 1917.
2. Charles James Longman (1936). The House of Longman, 1724-1800: A Bibliographical History with a List of Signs Used by Booksellers of that Period. Longmans, Green and Company. p. 3.
3. Philip Rawlings (24 October 2005). Drunks, Whores and Idle Apprentices: Criminal Biographies of the Eighteenth Century. Routledge. p. 38. ISBN 978-1-134-94252-7.
4. Bonnie Blackwell (2013). "2". Sex and Death in Eighteenth-Century Literature. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9781136182365.
5. Day, Gary; Lynch, Jack (9 March 2015). The Encyclopedia of British Literature, 3 Volume Set: 1660 - 1789. John Wiley & Sons. p. 950. ISBN 978-1-4443-3020-5.
6. Pierre Danchin (1 January 1993). The prologues and epilogues of the eighteenth century. Presses universitaires de Nancy. pp. 164–167. ISBN 978-2-86480-168-9.
7. Allardyce Nicoll (1927). A History of Early Eighteenth Century Drama: 1700-1750. CUP Archive. p. 31.
8. Frank Northen Magill (1986). Critical Survey of Drama: Authors. Salem Press. p. 944. ISBN 978-0-89356-385-1.
9. Christie McDonald; Susan Rubin Suleiman (2011). French Global: A New Approach to Literary History. Columbia University Press. p. 363. ISBN 978-0-231-14741-5.
10. Caroline Eck; James McAllister; Renée van de Vall (11 May 1995). The Question of Style in Philosophy and the Arts. Cambridge University Press. p. 69. ISBN 978-0-521-47341-5.
11. Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1920). "Klopstock, Friedrich Gottlieb" . Encyclopedia Americana.
12. Merrett, Robert James. "Anstey, Christopher". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/579. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
13. James Boswell (1899). The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides. John W. Lovell Company. p. 106.
14. Frances Chamberlaine Sheridan (1984). The Plays of Frances Sheridan. University of Delaware Press. p. 13. ISBN 978-0-87413-243-4.
15. Robert W. Ramsey: Sir George Wheler and his Travels in Greece, 1650–1724. In: Essays by Divers Hands. Being the Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature. New Series, Volume 29, 1942, p. 1–38, and Nigel Guy Wilson: Wheler, Sir George (1651–1724). In: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004 (Online)
16.  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Settle, Elkanah". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
17. (in German) Thilo Krieg, “Johann Christian Thomæ: Geschichtsforscher und Biograph ( 1668 – 1724 ) [ Johann Christian Thomä, Historian and Biographer ( 1668 – 1724 ) ]”, in : Das geehrte und gelehrte Coburg. Ein lebensgeschichtliches Nachschlagebuch, Teil 1 [ The Esteemed and Learned Coburg. A Reference Book of History and Life, Part 1 ] ( Coburger Heimatkunde und Heimatgeschichte, Band 5 [ Local Customs and History of Coburg, Volume 5 ] ) ( Coburg : A. Roßteutscher, 1927 ), page 46 ff.
18. Ros Ballaster, ‘Manley, Delarivier (c.1670–1724)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004.
19.  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Dufresny, Charles". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 8 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 646–647.
20. Young, B. W. "Wollaston, William". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/29841. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)