1749 in literature
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See also: 1748 in literature, other events of 1749, 1750 in literature, list of years in literature.
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Events
- Oliver Goldsmith graduates from Trinity College, Dublin.
- John Cleland in debtors' prison, where he writes Fanny Hill.
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New books
- Tom Jones - Henry Fielding
- The Governess - Sarah Fielding
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Births
- January 13 : Friedrich Müller, painter, narrator, lyricist and dramatist, also known as "Maler Müller" (died 1825)
- May 4 - Charlotte Smith, poet and novelist
- August 28 : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Deaths
- June 19 - Ambrose Philips, English poet (born 1675)
- September 10 - Emilie du Chatelet, French scientific writer, mistress of Voltaire and translator into French of Isaac Newton's Principia (born 1706)