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1689 in literature

See also: 1688 in literature, other events of 1689, 1690 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

New Books

• Table Talk - John Selden (posthumous)
• The Massacre of Paris (play) - Nathaniel Lee

Births

• January 18 - Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu, French satirist
• May 26 - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
• July 9 - Alexis Piron, French epigrammatist
• August 19 - Samuel Richardson, English novelist

Deaths

• April 16 - Aphra Behn, the first British woman to support herself by writing