1749 In Literature

Events

• Oliver Goldsmith graduates from Trinity College, Dublin.
• John Cleland in debtors' prison, where he writes Fanny Hill.

New Books

• Tom Jones - Henry Fielding
• The Governess - Sarah Fielding

Births

• January 13 : Friedrich Mller, painter, narrator, lyricist and dramatist, also known as "Maler Mller" (died 1825)
• May 4 - Charlotte Smith, poet and novelist
• August 28 : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Deaths

• June 19 - Ambrose Philips, English poet (born 1675)
• September 10 - Emilie du Chatelet, French scientific writer, mistress of Voltaire and translator into French of Isaac Newton's Principia (born 1706)

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