Period Books

25 A.D. - De Medecina, Celsus

1651 - Leviathan, Hobbes

1667 - Paradise Lost, Milton

1689 - Two Treatises of Government, John Locke

1696 - The Tales of Mother Goose, as collected by Charles Perault

1720 - Memoirs of a Cavalier, Daniel Defoe

1721 -  Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe

(A Presbyterian.  In Defoe's early life, he experienced some of the most unusual occurrences in English history: in 1665, 70,000 were killed by the Great Plague of London, and next year, the Great Fire of London left standing only Defoe's and two other houses in his neighbourhood.[10] In 1667, when he was probably about seven, a Dutch fleet sailed up the Medway via the River Thames and attacked the town of Chatham in the raid on the Medway.)

1722 -  Journal of A Plague Year, Daniel Defoe

1722 - Captain Jack, Defoe (boy sold into indentured servitude in Virginia)

1722 -  Moll Flanders, Daniel Defoe

1724 - A History of Pyrates, Vol. II, Daniel Defoe

1740 - Holy Bible (King James Version, 1611)

1740 - Pamela or Virtue Rewarded, Samuel Richardson

1741 - Joseph Andrews Vol. I, Vol. II,  Henry Fielding

1744 - A Little Pretty Pocket Book (comment), John Newbery

1755 - Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language

1759 - A Political Romance, Rev. Laurence Stern

1760 - The New England Primer (in print since 1696)

1760 - The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. by Rev. Laurence Stern

;—you have all, I dare say, heard of the animal spirits, as how they are transfused from father to son, &c. &c.,—and a great deal to that purpose ;—Well, you may take my word, . . .
Pray, my dear, quoth my mother, have you not forgot to wind up the clock? Good G—l cried my father, making an exclamation, but taking care to moderate his voice at the same time, Did ever woman, since the creation of the world, interrupt a man with such a silly question? Pray, what was your father saying? Nothing.

. . . Then, let me tell you, sir, it was a very unseasonable question at least, because it scattered and dispersed the animal spirits, whose business it was to have

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1763 - A Fairy Tale in Two Acts taken from Shakespeare, George Colman and David Garrick

1764 - Everyman his own Physician

1765 - Reliques of Ancient English Poetry Vol. II, Thomas Percey

1765 - The Castle of Otranto, Horace Walpole

1765 - The History of Little Goody Two Shoes - John Newbery

1766 - The Vicar of Wakefield, Oliver Goldsmith

1767 - The Good Natur'd Man (Play), Oliver Goldsmith

1768 - A Sentimental Journey Through France & Italy, Rev. Sterne

1770 - The Deserted Village, Oliver Goldsmith

1771 - The Expedition of Humphrey Clinker, Tobias Smollett

1771 - Encyclopedia Britainica

1773:  She Stoops To Conquer, Oliver Goldsmith

1775 - The Rivals, Richard Sheridan

1776 - The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith

1775 - School for Scandal, Richard Sheridan

1778 - Evelina, Fanny Burney