1729 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1729.

Events

• Charles Perrault's Histoires ou contes du temps passé (1697) is translated into English for the first time, by Robert Samber as Histories or Tales of Past Times, told by Mother Goose, including such favourite fairy tales as Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood and Puss in Boots.
• The Derge Sutra Printing Temple, one of the most important cultural, social, religious and historical institutions in Tibet, is founded by Dongba Tseren.

New books

Births

• January 12 – Edmund Burke, Irish political writer and politician (died 1797)
• January 22 – Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, German writer, dramatist and critic (died 1781)
• January 23 - Clara Reeve, English novelist (died 1807)^[1]
• April 13 – Bishop Thomas Percy, poet, translator and bishop (died 1811)
• August 11 – Ponce Denis Écouchard Lebrun, French poet (died 1807)
• September 6 – Moses Mendelssohn, German philosopher of the Haskalah or Jewish enlightenment (died 1786)
• September 25 – Christian Gottlob Heyne German classicist and archaeologist (died 1812)
• September 29 – John Duncombe, English poet, antiquary and cleric (died 1786)
• Unknown dates
  • Thomas Hawkins, English editor and cleric (died 1772)

Deaths

• January 19 – William Congreve, English dramatist and poet (born 1670)^[2]
• May 17 – Samuel Clarke, English philosopher and cleric (born 1675)
• September 1 – Richard Steele, Irish journalist, satirist and dramatist (born 1672)
• October 9 – Sir Richard Blackmore, English poet and religious writer (born 1654)
• November 16 – Abel Boyer, French-born lexicographer, journalist and miscellanist (born c. 1667)
• December 13 – Anthony Collins, English philosopher (born 1676)
• Unknown date – Gershom Carmichael, Scottish philosopher (born c. 1672)

References