1713 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1713.

Events

March 12 – Richard Steele and Joseph Addison found The Guardian; in the same year, Steele founds another short-lived periodical, The Englishman.
April 14 – First performance, in London, of Addison's libertarian play Cato, a Tragedy, which will be influential on both sides of the Atlantic.^[1]
First printing of Vitsentzos Kornaros's early 17th century Cretan romantic epic poem Erotokritos (Ἐρωτόκριτος), in Venice.
Alexander Pope announces that he is to begin a definitive translation of the works of Homer.

John Arbuthnot – Proposals for printing a very curious discourse... a treatise of the art of political lying, with an abstract of the first volume ("The Art of Political Lying")
Jane Barker – The Amours of Bosvil and Galesia
Richard Bentley as "Phileleutherus Lipsiensis" – Remarks upon a Late Discourse of Free-thinking (vs. Collins)
George Berkeley – Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous
Henry Carey – Poems on Several Occasions (with "Sally in Our Alley" and Namby Pamby)
Anthony Collins – A Discourse of Free-thinking
Daniel Defoe
- And What if the Pretender Should Come?
- A General History of Trade
- Reasons Against the Succession of the House of Hanover
John Dennis – Remarks upon Cato
Abel Evans – Vertumnus
John Gay
- Rural Sports
- The Fan
Edmund Gibson – Codex Juris Ecclesiastici Anglicani
Antoine Hamilton – Mémoires du comte de Gramont (published anonymously)
John Hughes – Letters of Abelard and Heloise (widely published transl.)^[2]
Thomas Parnell – An Essay on the Different Stiles of Poetry
Charles-Irénée Castel de Saint-Pierre – Projet pour rendre la paix perpétuelle en Europe
Jonathan Swift – Mr. C--n's Discourse of Free-thinking, Put into Plain English (see above, Collins)
- – Part of the Seventh Epistle of the First Book of Horace Imitated
John Toland – Reasons for Naturalizing the Jews in Great Britain and Ireland
Ned Ward – The History of the Grand Rebellion

January 13 – Charlotte Charke (Charlotte Cibber), English novelist, dramatist and actress (died 1760)
February 20 – Anna Maria Elvia, Swedish poet (died 1784)
April 12 – Guillaume Thomas François Raynal, French writer (died 1796)
June 11 – Edward Capell, English Shakespeare scholar (died 1781)
July 9 – John Newbery, English publisher and writer for children (died 1767)
October 5 – Denis Diderot, French encyclopedist (died 1784)
November 24 – Laurence Sterne, Irish-born novelist and cleric (died 1768)
December – Jonathan Toup, English classicist and critic (died 1785)

January 5 – Jean Chardin, French travel writer (born 1643)
January 11 – Pierre Jurieu, French Protestant leader and religious writer (born 1637)
May 20 – Thomas Sprat, English writer, poet and bishop (born 1635)
September 18 – Samuel Cobb, English poet and critic (born 1675)
October 30 – John Barret, English religious writer and Presbyterian minister (born 1631)
December 14 – Thomas Rymer, English Historiographer Royal (born 1641)

↑ Litto, Fredric M. (1966). "Addison's Cato in the Colonies". William and Mary Quarterly. 23: 431–449. JSTOR 1919239.
↑ Hughes, John; Mr Pope (1360). Letters of Abelard and Heloise. London: James Rivington and J Fletcher, P Davey and B Law, T Lowdes and T Caslon.

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