1723 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1723.

## Events

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* March – Voltaire makes an agreement with Abraham Viret to allow his work to be printed in Rouen.[1]
* July – A new edition of Bernard Mandeville's The Fable of the Bees is presented as a public nuisance by the Grand Jury of Middlesex, England, to the Court of King's Bench. Mandeville escapes prosecution.[2]
* November – After attending a party at the home of the marquis des Maisons, Voltaire contracts smallpox.[3]
* unknown date – The book collection of Samuel Pepys (died 1703), including his Diary, is transferred to the Pepys Library at his alma mater, Magdalene College, Cambridge, in accordance with his will.[4]

## New books

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### Fiction

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* Penelope Aubin – The Life of Charlotta Du Pont, an English lady; taken from her own memoirs[5]
* Jane Barker – A Patch-Work Screen for the Ladies
* Thomas-Simon Gueullette – Les Aventures merveilleuses du mandarin Fum-Hoam, contes chinois (The Transmigrations of the Mandarin Fum-Hoam (Chinese Tales))
* Eliza Haywood – Idalia: Or, the Unfortunate Mistress. A Novel. Written by Mrs. Eliza Haywood[6]
* Anton Josef Kirchweger – Aurea Catena Homeri
* Margrethe Lasson – Den beklædte Sandhed (first novel in Danish)

### Drama

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* Elijah Fenton – Mariamne[7]
* Francis Hawling – The Impertinent Lovers[7]
* Eliza Haywood – A Wife to be Lett[7]
* Ludvig Holberg – Erasmus Montanus[8]
* Hildebrand Jacob – The Fatal Constancy[7]
* Charles Johnson – Love in a Forest (adapted from As You Like It)[7]
* Pierre de Marivaux – La Double Inconstance[9]
* Ambrose Philips – Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester[7]
* Jane Robe – The Fatal Legacy[7]
* Richard Savage – Sir Thomas Overbury[7]

### Poetry

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Main article: 1723 in poetry

* Sir Richard Blackmore – Alfred: an epick poem[10]
* Heyat Mahmud – Jangnama; Bengali[11]
* David Mallet – William and Margaret
* William Meston – Knight of the Kirk
* Ambrose Philips – Ode on the Death of William, Earl of Cowper
* Matthew Prior
* Down-Hall
* The Turtle and the Sparrow
* Allan Ramsay – The Tea-Table Miscellany, Vol. 1
* Voltaire – La Henriade
* Ned Ward – Nuptial Dialogues and Debates, 3rd ed.

### Non-fiction

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* James Anderson – The Constitutions of the Free-Masons
* Henry Baker – An Invocation of Health: a poem
* Offspring Blackall, Bishop of Exeter (died 1716) – Collected Works
* Pietro Giannone – Storia civile del regno di Napoli (History of the Kingdom of Naples)
* Bernard de Mandeville – A Search into the Nature of Society
* Thomas Dempster (died 1625) – De Etruria regali libri VII (printed in sans-serif)
* Thomas Gordon and John Trenchard – Cato's Letters (essays)
* John Nott – The Cooks and Confectioners Dictionary or, the Accomplish'd Housewives Companion
* John Sheffield, Duke of Buckingham (died 1721) – The Works of John Sheffield, Earl of Mulgrave, Marquis of Normanby, and Duke of Buckingham

## Births

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* January 21 (or June 21) – Baron d'Holbach, German-born French philosopher and encyclopedist (died 1789)
* February 23 – Richard Price, Welsh-born philosopher (died 1791)
* February 24 – John Burgoyne, English soldier and dramatist (died 1792)
* June 5 (baptized) – Adam Smith, Scottish economist (died 1790)[12]
* June 20 – Adam Ferguson, Scottish philosopher and historian (died 1816)
* July 11 – Jean-François Marmontel, French novelist and dramatist (died 1799)
* September 30 – William Hutton, English local historian and poet (died 1815)
* November 8 – John Byron, English vice-admiral and memoirist (died 1786)
* November 30 – William Livingston, American political writer and politician (died 1790)
* December 26 – Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm, German-born French philosopher and encyclopedist (died 1807)

## Deaths

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Memorial to Thomas d'Urfey at St James's Church, Piccadilly

* February 26 – Thomas d'Urfey, English dramatist (born 1653)
* March 13 – René Auguste Constantin de Renneville, French Protestant poet and historian (born 1650)
* March 15 – Johann Christian Günther, German poet (born 1695)
* May 11 – Jean Galbert de Campistron, French dramatist (born 1656)
* June 8 – Isaac Chayyim Cantarini, Italian poet, physician and preacher (born 1644)
* July 28 – Mariana Alcoforado, Portuguese nun (born 1640)
* August 21 – Dimitrie Cantemir, Romanian author (born 1673)
* September 23 – Jacques Basnage, French Protestant poet, linguist and preacher (born 1653)
* December 1 – Susanna Centlivre (Susanna Carroll), English dramatist (born c. 1667–70)
* December 17 – John Trenchard, English politician and writer (born 1662)

## References

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1. ^ Ian Davidson (9 December 2010). Voltaire: A Life. Profile Books. p. 64\. ISBN 978-1-84765-224-9.
2. ^ Bernard Mandeville; E. J. Hundert (1997). The Fable of the Bees and Other Writings. Hackett Publishing. p. 10\. ISBN 0-87220-374-3.
3. ^ Glynn, Ian; Glynn, Jenifer (2004). The Life and Death of Smallpox. Cambridge University Press. p. 69. ISBN 9780521845427.
4. ^ "History of the Pepys Building". Magdalene College. Retrieved 20 March 2018.
5. ^ "The life of Charlotta Du Pont". National Library of Australia. printed for A. Bettesworth. 1723. Retrieved 20 March 2018.
6. ^ Retrieved 19 February 2019.
7. ^ a b c d e f g h William J. Burling (1992). A Checklist of New Plays and Entertainments on the London Stage, 1700-1737. Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. pp. 100–103\. ISBN 978-0-8386-3451-6.100-103&rft.pub=Fairleigh+Dickinson+Univ+Press&rft.date=1992&rft.isbn=978-0-8386-3451-6&rft.au=William+J.+Burling&rft_id=https://books.google.com/books?id=HMQJxeNpHR0C&pg;=PA100&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:1723+in+literature" class="Z3988">
8. ^ Extract. Retrieved 19 February 2019.
9. ^ Marie-Hélène Maudoux (1 January 2011). La Double Inconstance de Marivaux (Fiche de lecture): Résumé complet et analyse détaillée de l'oeuvre (in French). Primento. p. 4\. ISBN 978-2-8062-1785-1 - via lePetitLittéraire.fr.
10. ^ James Perry (1822). A Catalog of the Curious and Extensive Library of the Late James Perry, Esq... W. Nicol. pp. 17–.
11. ^ Wakil Ahmed (2012). "Heyat Mamud". In Sirajul Islam; Miah, Sajahan; Khanam, Mahfuza; Ahmed, Sabbir (eds.). Banglapedia: the National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh (Online ed.). Dhaka, Bangladesh: Banglapedia Trust, Asiatic Society of Bangladesh. ISBN 984-32-0576-6. OCLC 52727562. OL 30677644M. Retrieved 29 January 2025.
12. ^ "Adam Smith (1723–1790)". BBC. Retrieved 20 March 2018.