1771

The year of 1771 CE.

A few happenings from 1771:

January 9th — Emperor Go-Momozono accedes the throne of Japan
April 4th — Moscow and Saint Petersburg sees a surge in cases of bubonic plague
August 15th — Sir Walter Scott (author of Waverley, Ivanhoe, and Rob Roy, among others) is born
September 15th — the Moscow Plague Riots begin
September 17th — Tobias Smollet (author of Roderick Random) dies

This time is part of the 18th Century.

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The Man of Feeling

Henry Mackenzie
18th Century UK Literature

As someone who reads classical literature — a lot of which was around before cameras were common or in some cases existent — instead of photographs, I see a lot of author portraits when I do research. This is a review of The Man of Feeling.