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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1724.

Events

  • January – Andrew Michael Ramsay goes to Rome to tutor the two sons of James Francis Edward Stuart, Jacobite pretender to the British throne.Cherel, Albert: "André Michel Ramsay – Sa vie" – Chapter II of Fénelon au XVIIIe siècle en France. Paris: Librairie Hachette, 1917.
  • August – Thomas Longman establishes the Longman publishing house in London.{{cite book|author=Charles James Longman|title=The House of Longman, 1724-1800: A Bibliographical History with a List of Signs Used by Booksellers of that Period|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oEwZAAAAMAAJ|year=1936|publisher=Longmans, Green and Company|page=3}}
  • November 16 – An "autobiographical" Narrative of the life of notorious criminal Jack Sheppard, said to be by Daniel Defoe, goes on sale at Sheppard's execution at Tyburn.{{cite book|author=Philip Rawlings|title=Drunks, Whores and Idle Apprentices: Criminal Biographies of the Eighteenth Century|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ua2JAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA38|date=24 October 2005|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-94252-7|pages=38}}

New books

=Prose=

  • Anonymous (attributed to Daniel Defoe) – A Narrative of All the Robberies, Escapes, &c. of John Sheppard
  • Gilbert Burnet (died 1715) – Bishop Burnet's History of His Own Time, Vol. I{{cn|date=January 2025}}
  • Samuel Clarke – Sermons of Samuel Clarke{{cn|date=January 2025}}
  • Anthony Collins – Discourse of the Grounds and Reasons of the Christian Religion with An Apology for Free Debate and Liberty of Writing
  • Mary Davys – The Reform'd Coquet (novella){{cite book |title=Sex and Death in Eighteenth-Century Literature|chapter=2|author=Bonnie Blackwell|publisher=Taylor & Francis|year=2013|isbn=9781136182365}}
  • Daniel Defoe
  • Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress{{cite book |last1=Day |first1=Gary |last2=Lynch |first2=Jack |title=The Encyclopedia of British Literature, 3 Volume Set: 1660 - 1789 |date=9 March 2015 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |isbn=978-1-4443-3020-5 |page=950 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ThBhBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA950 |language=en}}
  • A New Voyage Round the World
  • A Tour thro' the Whole Island of Great Britain
  • John Dennis – Vice and Luxury Publick Mischiefs (on Mandeville)
  • Richard Fiddes
  • A General Treatise of Morality (on Mandeville)
  • The Life of Cardinal Wolsey
  • Eliza Haywood
  • La Belle Assemblé
  • The Fatal Secret (fiction)
  • Lasselia
  • The Masqueraders
  • Thomas Hearne, ed. – Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle
  • Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon (died 1674) – An Appendix to the History of the Grand Rebellion
  • Captain Charles Johnson (attributed to Daniel Defoe or Nathaniel Mist) – A General History of the Pyrates
  • William Law – Remarks Upon a Late Book (against Mandeville)
  • John Oldmixon – The Critical History of England, Ecclesiastical and Civil
  • Paul de Rapin – L'Histoire d'Angleterre
  • Jonathan Swift
  • A Letter to the Shop-keepers... of Ireland (as M. B. Drapier)
  • A Letter to Mr. Harding the Printer (as Drapier)
  • Some Observations Upon a Paper Relating to Wood's Half-pence (as Drapier)
  • A Letter to the Whole People of Ireland (Drapier)
  • A Letter to the Right Honourable the Lord Viscount Molesworth (last of the Drapier letters)
  • Seasonable Advice
  • Isaac Watts – Logic, or The Right Use of Reason in the Enquiry After Truth With a Variety of Rules to Guard Against Error in the Affairs of Religion and Human Life, as well as in the Sciences

=Drama=

  • Colley Cibber – Caesar in Egypt{{cite book|author=Pierre Danchin|title=The prologues and epilogues of the eighteenth century|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rgZaAAAAMAAJ|date=1 January 1993|publisher=Presses universitaires de Nancy|isbn=978-2-86480-168-9|pages=164–167}}
  • John Gay – The Captives{{cite book|author=Allardyce Nicoll|title=A History of Early Eighteenth Century Drama: 1700-1750|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BHs3AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA31|year=1927|publisher=CUP Archive|pages=31}}
  • Ludvig Holberg – Henrich og Pernille (Henrik and Pernille){{cite book|author=Frank Northen Magill|title=Critical Survey of Drama: Authors|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W1ENAQAAMAAJ|year=1986|publisher=Salem Press|isbn=978-0-89356-385-1|page=944}}
  • Robert Hurst – The Roman Maid
  • George Jeffreys – Edwin
  • Pierre de Marivaux – La Fausse Suivante{{cite book |author1=Christie McDonald |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JljqSrUR0I4C&pg=PA363 |title=French Global: A New Approach to Literary History |author2=Susan Rubin Suleiman |publisher=Columbia University Press |year=2011 |isbn=978-0-231-14741-5 |pages=363}}
  • William Phillips – Belisarius
  • John Rich – The Necromancer; or, History of Dr. Faustus{{cite book|author1=Caroline Eck|author2=James McAllister|author3=Renée van de Vall|title=The Question of Style in Philosophy and the Arts|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OWIiE0XWleMC&pg=PA69|date=11 May 1995|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-47341-5|pages=69}}

=Poetry=

Births

Deaths

  • January 1 – Charles Gildon, English critic and dramatist (born c. 1665)
  • January 15 – George Wheler, English travel writer (born 1651)Robert W. Ramsey: Sir George Wheler and his Travels in Greece, 1650–1724. In: Essays by Divers Hands. Being the Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature. New Series, Volume 29, 1942, p. 1–38, and Nigel Guy Wilson: Wheler, Sir George (1651–1724). In: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004 ([https://web.archive.org/web/20050730073730/http://www.dur.ac.uk/m.d.eddy/HoSinDurhamWheler.html Online])
  • February 5 – Mary Cowper, English diarist (born 1685)
  • February 12 – Elkanah Settle, English poet and dramatist (born 1648){{EB1911|wstitle=Settle, Elkanah}}
  • March 19 – Johann Christian Thomae, German historian and biographer (born 1668){{in lang|de}} Thilo Krieg, “Johann Christian Thomæ: Geschichtsforscher und Biograph ( 1668 – 1724 ) [ Johann Christian Thomä, Historian and Biographer ( 1668 – 1724 ) ]”, in : Das geehrte und gelehrte Coburg. Ein lebensgeschichtliches Nachschlagebuch, Teil 1 [ The Esteemed and Learned Coburg. A Reference Book of History and Life, Part 1 ] ( Coburger Heimatkunde und Heimatgeschichte, Band 5 [ Local Customs and History of Coburg, Volume 5 ] ) ( Coburg : A. Roßteutscher, 1927 ), page 46 ff.
  • July 11 – Delarivier Manley, writer, playwright and pamphleteer (born c. 1663)Ros Ballaster, [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/17939 ‘Manley, Delarivier (c.1670–1724)’], Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004.
  • August 15 – Manko, Japanese poet (year of birth not known)
  • October 6 – Charles Rivière Dufresny, French dramatist (born 1648){{EB1911|inline=y|wstitle=Dufresny, Charles|volume=8|pages=646–647}}
  • October 29 – William Wollaston, English philosophical writer (born 1659){{cite ODNB|id=29841|first=B. W.|last=Young|title=Wollaston, William}}
  • November 29 – Laurence Braddon, English writer and politician (year of birth not known)
  • November – Liam an Dúna Mac Cairteáin, Irish poet and soldier (b. 1668)
  • probable – Proinsias Ó Doibhlin, Irish poet and priest (year of birth not known)

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