This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1719.

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  • March 14Richard Steele launches The Plebeian, in opposition to government policy on peerages.[1][2]
  • April 2325Daniel Defoe's novel Robinson Crusoe is published in London (by W. Taylor) as his first work of fiction, written aged about 60.[3] The initial title is The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself. With An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by Pyrates. Written by Himself. Defoe's anonymity is broken in September by Charles Gildon in The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Mr D— De D—, of London, Hosier. By the end of the year the book has run through four editions. Defoe's sequel, The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, competes with several imitators.
  • October 30 – Defoe launches a periodical, The Manufacturer.[4]
  • unknown dates

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Poetry

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References

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  1. ^ Clyve Jones (15 July 2010). Pillar of the Constitution: The House of Lords in British Politics, 1640-1784. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 100. ISBN 978-0-8264-2746-5.
  2. ^ Parkes, Joseph (1832). The Prerogative of Creating Peers. James Ridgway. p. 58.
  3. ^ Maximillian E. Novak (2003). Daniel Defoe: Master of Fictions: His Life and Ideas. Oxford University Press. p. 537. ISBN 978-0-19-926154-3.
  4. ^ Maximillian E. Novak (2003). Daniel Defoe: Master of Fictions : His Life and Ideas. Oxford University Press. p. 554. ISBN 978-0-19-926154-3.
  5. ^ Poem Hunter: Biography of Colley Cibber. Accessed 10 February 2013.
  6. ^   This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainCousin, John William (1910). "Garth, Sir Samuel". A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. London: J. M. Dent & Sons – via Wikisource.
  7. ^ Anne Commire (12 December 2000). Women in World History. Gale. p. 109. ISBN 978-0-7876-4069-9.
  8. ^ Joseph Addison (1806). Cato; a Tragedy, in Five Acts... With Remarks by Mrs. Inchbald. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-row. pp. 8.
  9. ^ McDowell, Paula. "Elinor James" in Matthew, H.C.G. and Brian Harrison, eds. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. vol. 29, 693-604. London: Oxford UP, 2004. p. 693.