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

Events[edit]

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[edit]

Fiction[edit]

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)
John Sheffield, Duke of Buckingham (died 1721) – The Works of John Sheffield, Earl of Mulgrave, Marquis of Normanby, and Duke of Buckingham

Drama[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

James Anderson – The Constitutions of the Free-Masons
Henry Baker – An Invocation of Health: a poem
Offspring Blackall, Bishop of Exeter (posthumously) – 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 (posthumous) – 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

Births[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

^ Ian Davidson (9 December 2010). Voltaire: A Life. Profile Books. p. 64. ISBN 978-1-84765-224-9.
^ Bernard Mandeville; E. J. Hundert (1997). The Fable of the Bees and Other Writings. Hackett Publishing. p. 10. ISBN 0-87220-374-3.
^ Glynn, Ian; Glynn, Jenifer (2004). The Life and Death of Smallpox. Cambridge University Press. p. 69. ISBN 9780521845427.
^ "History of the Pepys Building". Magdalene College. Retrieved 20 March 2018.
^ "The life of Charlotta Du Pont". National Library of Australia. printed for A. Bettesworth. 1723. Retrieved 20 March 2018.
^ Retrieved 19 February 2019.
^ ^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.
^ Extract. Retrieved 19 February 2019.
^ 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. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
^ James Perry (1822). A Catalog of the Curious and Extensive Library of the Late James Perry, Esq... W. Nicol. pp. 17–.
^ 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 5 April 2024.
^ "Adam Smith (1723–1790)". BBC. Retrieved 20 March 2018.

[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.

[Burling1992-7] ^ ^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.

[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. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)

[10] James Perry (1822). A Catalog of the Curious and Extensive Library of the Late James Perry, Esq... W. Nicol. pp. 17–.

[bpedia-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 5 April 2024.

[12] "Adam Smith (1723–1790)". BBC. Retrieved 20 March 2018.

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