1731 in literature

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January 1 - The first non-specialized monthly magazine The Gentleman's Magazine began its first publication in London.
July 1 - Benjamin Franklin founded the first public library in America.
August 20 - Justus van Effen began publishing the anthology "De Hollandsche Spectator" ("The Dutch Observer").

The Story of the Cavalera de Grieux and Manon Lescot "( Histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut ) by Antoine Francois
Thomas Bayes ' Theological Work "It is the Happiness of His Creatures"
Ralph Kedworth 's essay “Treatise concerning eternal and immutable morality” was published.
The Memoirs of the French Courtyard for 1688–1689 ( Memoires de la Cour de France pour les annees 1688 et 1689 ) by Marie-Madeleine de Lafayette are published .
Jean Terrason 's didactic novel "Setos, or Life Story, gleaned from the monuments and testimonies of ancient Egypt."

“The Letter Writers”, “Grub-Street Opera”, “The Tragedy of Tragedies; or, The Life and Death of Tom Thumb »by Henry Fielding .
"The London Merchant, or the History of George Barnwell" by George Lillo .

February 15 - Jean-Louis Aubert , French poet, fabulist, journalist and critic (died 1814 ).
March 28 - Ramon de la Cruz , Spanish playwright (died in 1794 ).
April 2 - Catherine Macaulay , English historian, writer and philosopher (died 1791 ).
April 28 - Jean-Francois Callava d'Estandou , French writer, poet, critic (died in 1813 ).
May 7 - Jan Yuri Prokop Ganchka , monk, linguist and author of theological writings. He wrote in Verkhneluzhitsky language (died in 1789 ).
September 2 - Johann Friedrich von Kroneck , German poet (died 1758 ).
September 6 - Sophia von Laroche , German writer (died 1807 ).
September 7 - Elizabetta de Gambarini , English singer, author of collections of songs in Italian and English (died 1765 ).
September 28 - Pietro Napoli Signorelli , Italian cultural historian, scientific writer, playwright (died 1815 ).
November 26 - William Cooper , English poet (died 1800 ).
December 12 - Erasmus Darwin , English poet (died in 1802 ).
December 24 - Gustav Fredrik Gillenborg , Swedish writer (died 1808 ).
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- Kozmas Balanos , Greek priest, mathematician, teacher and writer (died 1808 ).
- Carlo Denin , Italian historian, imperial librarian in Paris, author of numerous works on Ancient Greece, on Prussia and Frederick the Great, on Germany (died in 1813 ).
- Sergey Vasilievich Drukovtsev , Russian writer (died in 1786 ).
- Moses-Ephraim Ku , German poet and translator (died 1790 ).
- Pierre Rene Lemonier , French playwright and librettist (died 1796 ).

January 12 - Fyodor Polikarpovich Polikarpov-Orlov , Russian writer, translator, publisher, lexicographer, author of one of the main Russian dictionaries of the 18th century. - "The vocabulary lexicon."
March 5 - Abdu-al-Ghani an-Nablusi , a Muslim scholar and poet (born in 1641 ).
April 7 - Mikhail Ivanovich Shiryaev , a Russian poet, the favorite of Emperor Peter the Great (born in 1680 ).
April 24 - Daniel Defoe , English writer and publicist.
May 11 - Mary Estel , English writer (born in 1666 ).
December 26 - Antoine Udard de Lamotte , French poet, playwright and librettist (born in 1672 ).