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Adelbert von Chamisso
Adelbert von Chamisso (30 January 178121 August 1838) was a German poet and botanist, author of Peter Schlemihl, a famous story about a man who sold his shadow.
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Anna Laetitia Barbauld
Anna Laetitia Barbauld (by herself possibly, as in French, née Aikin; 20 June 1743 – 9 March 1825) was a prominent English poet, essayist, literary critic, editor, and author of children's literature.
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Anna Seward
Anna Seward (12 December 1742often wrongly given as 174725 March 1809) was a long-eighteenth-century English Romantic poet, often called the Swan of Lichfield.
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Anna, Lady Miller
Anna, Lady Miller (1741 – 24 June 1781) was an English poet, travel writer and salon hostess.
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Anne Francis
Anne Francis (also known as Anne Lloyd Francis; September 16, 1930 – January 2, 2011) was an American actress known for her role in the science fiction film Forbidden Planet (1956) and for having starred in the television series Honey West (1965–1966), which was the first TV series with a female detective character's name in the title.
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Baron Munchausen
Baron Munchausen is a fictional German nobleman created by the German writer Rudolf Erich Raspe in his 1785 book Baron Munchausen's Narrative of his Marvellous Travels and Campaigns in Russia.
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Belmont und Constanze
Belmont und Constanze, oder Die Entführung aus dem Serail (English: Belmonte and Konstanze, The Abduction from the Seraglio) by Christoph Friedrich Bretzner is a libretto, published in 1781, telling the story of the hero Belmonte, assisted by his servant Pedrillo, attempting to rescue his beloved Konstanze from the seraglio of the Pasha Selim.
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Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin (April 17, 1790) was an American polymath and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.
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Caramuru (epic poem)
Caramuru is an epic poem written by Brazilian Augustinian friar Santa Rita Durão.
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Charles Johnstone
Charles Johnstone (–1800) was an Irish novelist.
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Charlotte von Ahlefeld
Charlotte Sophie Luise Wilhelmine von Ahlefeld (December 6, 1781 – July 27, 1849) was a German novelist.
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Christian Isobel Johnstone
Christian Isobel Johnstone (1781–1857) was a prolific journalist and author in Scotland in the nineteenth century.
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Christoph Friedrich Bretzner
Christoph Friedrich Bretzner (10 December 1748 – 31 August 1807) was a Leipzig merchant famous for writing the libretto to a singspiel Belmont und Constanze, oder Die Entführung aus dem Serail, produced in Berlin and adapted in 1782 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Gottlieb Stephanie as Die Entführung aus dem Serail.
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Clementinum
The Clementinum (Klementinum in Czech) is a historic complex of buildings in Prague.
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Critique of Pure Reason
The Critique of Pure Reason (Kritik der reinen Vernunft, KrV) (1781, Riga; second edition 1787) is a book by Immanuel Kant that has exerted an enduring influence on Western philosophy.
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David Brewster
Sir David Brewster KH PRSE FRS FSA(Scot) FSSA MICE (11 December 178110 February 1868) was a British scientist, inventor, author, and academic administrator.
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December 11
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December 6
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December 7
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Ebenezer Elliott
Ebenezer Elliott (17 March 1781 – 1 December 1849) was an English poet, known as the Corn Law rhymer for his leading the fight to repeal the Corn Laws which were causing hardship and starvation among the poor.
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Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke (12 January 17309 July 1797) was an Anglo-Irish statesman born in Dublin, as well as an author, orator, political theorist and philosopher, who after moving to London in 1750 served as a member of parliament (MP) between 1766 and 1794 in the House of Commons with the Whig Party.
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Edward Capell
Edward Capell (11 June 1713 – 24 February 1781) was an English Shakespearian critic.
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Edward Gibbon
Edward Gibbon FRS (8 May 173716 January 1794) was an English historian, writer and Member of Parliament.
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Elizabeth Craven
Lady Elizabeth Craven (née Berkeley; 17 December 1750 – 13 January 1828), Princess Berkeley (though often styled "Margravine of Brandenburg-Ansbach"), previously Lady Craven, of Hamstead Marshall, was an author and playwright, perhaps best known for her travelogues.
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Elizabeth Inchbald
Elizabeth Inchbald (née Simpson) (1753–1821) was an English novelist, actress, and dramatist.
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Eugenio Espejo
Francisco Javier Eugenio de Santa Cruz y Espejo (Royal Audiencia of Quito, 1747–95) was a medical pioneer, writer and lawyer of mestizo origin in colonial Ecuador.
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Fart Proudly
"Fart Proudly" (also called "A Letter to a Royal Academy about farting", and "To the Royal Academy of Farting") is the popular name of an essay about flatulence written by Benjamin Franklin c. 1781 while he was living abroad as United States Ambassador to France.
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February 15
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February 24
For superstitious reasons, when the Romans began to intercalate to bring their calendar into line with the solar year, they chose not to place their extra month of Mercedonius after February but within it.
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February 26
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Frances Brooke
Frances Brooke (née Moore; 12 January 1724 – 23 January 1789) was an English novelist, essayist, playwright and translator.
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Friedrich Ludwig Georg von Raumer
Friedrich Ludwig Georg von Raumer (14 May 1781 – 14 June 1873) was a German historian.
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Friedrich Schiller
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (10 November 17599 May 1805) was a German poet, philosopher, physician, historian, and playwright.
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George Crabbe
George Crabbe (24 December 1754 – 3 February 1832) was an English poet, surgeon and clergyman.
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George Keate
George Keate (1729–1797) was an English poet and writer.
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Glocester Ridley
Glocester (or Gloster) Ridley (1702–1774) was an English miscellaneous writer.
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Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (22 January 1729 – 15 February 1781) was a German writer, philosopher, dramatist, publicist and art critic, and one of the most outstanding representatives of the Enlightenment era.
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Heligoland
Heligoland (Helgoland; Heligolandic Frisian: deät Lun, Mooring Frisian: Hålilönj) is a small German archipelago in the North Sea.
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Henry Home, Lord Kames
Henry Home, Lord Kames (169627 December 1782) was a Scottish advocate, judge, philosopher, writer and agricultural improver.
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Henry Mackenzie
Henry Mackenzie FRSE (26 July 1745 – 14 January 1831) was a Scottish lawyer, novelist and writer.
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Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant (22 April 1724 – 12 February 1804) was a German philosopher who is a central figure in modern philosophy.
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Iphigenia in Tauris (Goethe)
Iphigenia in Tauris (Iphigenie auf Tauris) is a reworking by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe of the ancient Greek tragedy Ἰφιγένεια ἐν Ταύροις (Iphigeneia en Taurois) by Euripides.
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January 26
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January 30
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Jean-Baptiste de La Curne de Sainte-Palaye
Jean-Baptiste de La Curne de Sainte-Palaye (June 1697, Auxerre – 1 March 1781, Paris) was a French historian, classicist, philologist and lexicographer.
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (28 June 1712 – 2 July 1778) was a Genevan philosopher, writer and composer.
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Joachim Heinrich Campe
Joachim Heinrich Campe (29 June 1746 – 22 October 1818) was a German writer, linguist, educator and publisher.
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Johann Nikolaus Götz
Johann Nikolaus Götz (Worms, July 9, 1721 – Winterburg near Bad Kreuznach, November 4, 1781) was a German poet from Worms.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German writer and statesman.
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Johannes Ewald
Johannes Ewald (18 November 1743 – 17 March 1781) was a Danish national dramatist and poet.
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John Delap
John Delap (1725–1812) was an English churchman and academic, known as a poet and dramatist.
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John Moore (Scottish physician)
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John Newton
John Newton (– 21 December 1807) was an English Anglican clergyman who served as a sailor in the Royal Navy for a period, and later as the captain of slave ships.
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John Nichols (printer)
John Nichols (2 February 1745 – 26 November 1826) was an English printer, author and antiquary.
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John O'Keeffe (writer)
John O'Keeffe (24 June 1747 – 4 February 1833) was an Irish actor and dramatist.
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José Francisco de Isla
José Francisco de Isla (April 24, 1703 – November 2, 1781) was a Spanish Jesuit, celebrated as a preacher and a humorist and satirist of the stamp of Cervantes.
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Judith Madan
Judith Madan (née Cowper; 26 August 1702 – 7 December 1781) was an English poet.
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June 12
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June 24
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Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets
Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets (1779–81), alternatively known by the shorter title Lives of the Poets, is a work by Samuel Johnson comprising short biographies and critical appraisals of 52 poets, most of whom lived during the eighteenth century.
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Lucy Aikin
Lucy Aikin (6 November 1781 – 29 January 1864) was an English historical writer.
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Ludwig Achim von Arnim
Carl Joachim Friedrich Ludwig von Arnim (26 January 1781 – 21 January 1831), better known as Achim von Arnim, was a German poet, novelist, and together with Clemens Brentano and Joseph von Eichendorff, a leading figure of German Romanticism.
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March 1
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March 17
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Maria De Fleury
Maria De Fleury (fl. 1773–1791) was a London Baptist poet, hymnist and polemicist descended from French Huguenots.
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Mary Deverell
Mary Deverell (born 4 February 1731 near Minchinhampton, Gloucestershire, England, died early September 1805, Nailsworth, Gloucestershire), was a moral and religious essayist, born into the family of a clothier.
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May 14
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May 8
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Miles Peter Andrews
Miles Peter Andrews (1742 – 18 July 1814) was an 18th-century English playwright, gunpowder manufacturer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1796 to 1814.
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November 2
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November 4
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November 6
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Peter Andresen Oelrichs
Peter Andresen Oelrichs (26 February 1781, in Heligoland – 18 June 1869, in Amsterdam) was a lexicographer and linguist.
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Philip Freneau
Philip Morin Freneau (January 2, 1752 – December 18, 1832) was an American poet, nationalist, polemicist, sea captain and newspaper editor sometimes called the "Poet of the American Revolution".
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Prague
Prague (Praha, Prag) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, the 14th largest city in the European Union and also the historical capital of Bohemia.
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan (30 October 17517 July 1816) was an Irish satirist, a playwright and poet, and long-term owner of the London Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.
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Richard Jago
Richard Jago (1 October 1715 – 8 May 1781) was an English clergyman poet and minor landscape gardener from Warwickshire.
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Robert Bage
Robert Bage (11 March 1730 – 1 September 1801) was an English businessman and novelist.
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Robert Jephson
Robert Jephson (1736 – 31 May 1803) was an Irish dramatist and politician.
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Rudolf Erich Raspe
Rudolf Erich Raspe (March 1736 – 16 November 1794) was a German librarian, writer, and scientist, called by his biographer John Carswell a "rogue".
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Samuel Jackson Pratt
Samuel Jackson Pratt (25 December 1749 – 4 October 1814) was a prolific English poet, dramatist and novelist, writing under the pseudonym of "Courtney Melmoth" as well as under his own name.
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Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson LL.D. (18 September 1709 – 13 December 1784), often referred to as Dr.
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Santa Rita Durão
José de Santa Rita Durão (1722–1784) was a Colonial Brazilian Neoclassic poet, orator and Augustinian friar.
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Song of Songs
The Song of Songs, also Song of Solomon or Canticles (Hebrew:, Šîr HašŠîrîm, Greek: ᾎσμα ᾎσμάτων, asma asmaton, both meaning Song of Songs), is one of the megillot (scrolls) found in the last section of the Tanakh, known as the Ketuvim (or "Writings"), and a book of the Old Testament.
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The Agreeable Surprise
The Agreeable Surprise is a 1781 comic opera to music by Samuel Arnold and a libretto by John O'Keeffe.
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The Critic (play)
The Critic: or, a Tragedy Rehearsed is a satire by Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire is a six-volume work by the English historian Edward Gibbon.
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The Robbers
The Robbers (Die Räuber) is the first drama by German playwright Friedrich Schiller.
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Thomas Holcroft
Thomas Holcroft (10 December 1745 – 23 March 1809) was an English dramatist, miscellanist, poet and translator, sympathetic to the early ideas of the French Revolution.
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William Combe
William Combe (25 March 1742 – 19 June 1823) was a British miscellaneous writer.
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William Cowper
William Cowper (26 November 1731 – 25 April 1800) was an English poet and hymnodist.
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William Hayley
William Hayley (9 November 1745 – 12 November 1820) was an English writer, best known as the friend and biographer of William Cowper.
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William Hogarth
William Hogarth FRSA (10 November 1697 – 26 October 1764) was an English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic, and editorial cartoonist.
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1697 in literature
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1697.
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1702 in literature
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1702.
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1703 in literature
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1703.
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1713 in literature
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1713.
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1715 in literature
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1715.
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1721 in literature
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1721.
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1729 in literature
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1729.
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1741 in literature
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1741.
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1743 in literature
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1743.
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1831 in literature
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1831.
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1838 in literature
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1838.
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1849 in literature
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1849.
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1857 in literature
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1857.
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1864 in literature
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1864.
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1868 in literature
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1868.
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1869 in literature
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1869.
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1873 in literature
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1873.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1781_in_literature
