1703 in literature
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Events from the year 1703 in literature.
Events
- July 29–31 – Daniel Defoe is pilloried at Temple Bar, London, as part of a sentence for seditious libel, after publishing his satirical pamphlet The Shortest Way with the Dissenters (1702). He is released from Newgate Prison in mid-November.[1]
- unknown date – Richard Mead is appointed physician at St Thomas's Hospital, London.[2]
New books
Prose
- Joseph Addison – A Letter from Italy[3]
- Abel Boyer – The History of the Reign of Queen Anne
- Gilbert Burnet – A Third Collection of Several Tracts and Discourses
- Edmund Calamy – A Defence of Moderate Non-Conformity (volume 1)[4]
- Jeremy Collier – Mr Collier's Dissuasive from the Play-House
- William Dampier – A Voyage to New Holland, &c. in the Year 1699
- Daniel Defoe
- A Brief Explanation of a Late Pamphlet, entitled, The Shortest Way with the Dissenters
- A Dialogue Between a Dissenter and the Observator
- A Hymn to the Funeral Sermon
- Hymn to the Pillory
- More Reformation: A satyr upon himself
- The Shortest Way to Peace and Union
- A True Collection of the Writings of the Author of the True-Born English-man
- John Dunton – The Shortest Way with Whores and Rogues (satire on Defoe)[5]
- Thomas Hearne – Reliquiae Bodleianae
- George Hickes – Linguarum veterum septentrionalium thesaurus grammatico-criticus et archæologicus
- Benjamin Hoadly – The Reasonableness of Conformity to the Church of England
- Louis-Armand de Lom d'Arce de Lahontan, Baron de Lahontan – New Voyages to North America
- Bernard de Mandeville – Some Fables After the Easie and Familiar Method of Monsieur de la Fontaine
- Leonty Magnitsky – Arithmetic (Арифметика)
- Henry Maundrell – A Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem at Easter A.D. 1697
- Ned Ward – The Secret History of the Calves-head Clubb (against Republicanism)
- Benjamin Whichcote – Moral and Religious Aphorisms
Drama
- Thomas Baker – Tunbridge Walks
- Charles Boyle – As You Find It
- Marie-Anne Barbier – Cornélie, mère des Gracques
- William Burnaby – Love Betrayed
- Susanna Centlivre – Love's Contrivance
- Chikamatsu Monzaemon – The Love Suicides at Sonezaki (曾根崎心中, Sonezaki Shinjū)
- Thomas d'Urfey – The Old Mode and the New
- Richard Estcourt – The Fair Example
- Charles Gildon – The Patriot (adapted by Nathaniel Lee)
- John Oldmixon – The Governour of Cyprus
- Mary Pix – The Different Widows
- Nicholas Rowe – The Fair Penitent (published)
- Richard Steele – The Lying Lover[6]
- William Walker – Marry, or Do Worse[7]
- Richard Wilkinson – Vice Reclaimed
Poetry
- Lady Mary Chudleigh – Poems on Several Occasions
- William Congreve
- A Hymn to Harmony
- The Tears of Amaryllis for Amyntas
- Sarah Fyge Egerton – Poems on Several Occasions
- Pavao Ritter Vitezović – Plorantis Croatiae saecula duo (Two centuries of Croatia in mourning)
- See also 1703 in poetry
Births
- March 23 – Cajsa Warg, Swedish cookbook author (died 1769)[8]
- May 18 – İbrahim Hakkı Erzurumi, Turkish Sufi philosopher (died 1780)
- June 28 – John Wesley, English writer of sermons and hymns (died 1791)[9]
- October 5 – Jonathan Edwards, American theologian (died 1758)
- November 26 – Theophilus Cibber, English playwright (died 1758)
- unknown dates
- Henry Brooke, Irish novelist and dramatist (died 1783)[10]
- Charles Clémencet, French historian (died 1778)[11]
- Thomas Cooke, English writer and translator (died 1756)[12]
- John Ranby, English surgeon and writer on surgery (died 1773)[13]
- Ando Shoeki (安藤 昌益), Japanese philosopher (died 1762)
- Gilbert West, English poet and translator (died 1756)[14]
Deaths
- January 11 – Johann Georg Graevius, German critic (born 1632)[15]
- February 17 – Philippe Goibaud-Dubois, French translator (born 1626)
- March 3 – Robert Hooke, English natural philosopher (born 1635)[16]
- March 5 – Gabrielle Suchon, French moral philosopher (born 1631)
- April 20 – Lancelot Addison, English writer and cleric (born 1632)
- May 8 – Vincent Alsop, English religious writer and wit (born c. 1630)
- May 16 – Charles Perrault, French writer of fairy tales (born 1628)[17]
- May 26 – Samuel Pepys, English diarist (born 1633)[18]
- August 21 – Thomas Tryon, English self-help author (born 1634)[19]
- September 29 – Charles de Saint-Évremond, French essayist and literary critic (born 1631)
- unknown date – Samuel Johnson, English pamphleteer (born 1649)
References
- ^ Thomas Wright (1894). The Life of Daniel Defoe. Cassell. p. 77.
- ^ From 1703 to 1712. 1809. p. 1.
- ^ Brian McCrea (1990). Addison and Steele are Dead: The English Department, Its Canon, and the Professionalization of Literary Criticism. Associated University Presse. p. 38. ISBN 978-0-87413-366-0.
- ^ Gordon, Alexander (1886). . In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 8. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- ^ The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 2, 1660-1800. Cambridge University Press. 1971. p. 906.
- ^ W. Van Lennep (1960). The London Stage, 1660-1800: Volume Two, 1700-1729. Southern Illinois University Press. p. 50.
- ^ Allardyce Nicoll (2000). History of English Drama, 1660-1900, Volume 2. Cambridge University Press. p. 171.
- ^ "Warg, Christina". Nordisk familjebok (in Swedish). p. 278. Retrieved 22 February 2026.
- ^ John Wesley (1833). Life of the Rev. John Wesley. R. T. S. p. 125.
- ^ Gregory A. Schirmer (1998). Out of what Began: A History of Irish Poetry in English. Cornell University Press. p. 63. ISBN 0-8014-3498-X.
- ^ Samuel Maunder (1868). The Biographical Treasury a Dictionary of Universal Biography... Longman, Green, Reader, and Dyer. p. 204.
- ^ Sherbo, Arthur. "Cooke, Thomas". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 13 (online ed.). Oxford University Press. pp. 166–168. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/6180. (Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ Ernest Alfred Gray (1952). Portrait of a Surgeon: A Biography of John Hunter. Hale. p. 29.
- ^ . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
- ^ William Nicolson (1985). The London Diaries of William Nicolson, Bishop of Carlisle 1702-1718. OUP Oxford. p. 198. ISBN 978-0-19-822404-4.
- ^ Richard Nichols (1999). Robert Hooke and the Royal Society. Book Guild. p. 50. ISBN 978-1-85776-465-9.
- ^ Charles Perrault; Neil Philip (1993). The Complete Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. p. 125. ISBN 0-395-57002-6.
- ^ "Samuel Pepys | English diarist and naval administrator". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 22 August 2020.
- ^ William Hone (1832). The Year Book of Daily Recreation & Information: Concerning Remarkable Men & Manners. William Tegg and Company, 85, Queen Street, Cheapside. p. 979.