Question

Significance of year 1751 in the history of english literature

Answer 1

Some Important hints from the year 1751:

Francis Coventry – The History of Pompey the Little
Henry Fielding – Amelia
John Cleland – Memoirs of a Coxcomb
Eliza Haywood – The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless
Robert Paltock – The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins, a Cornish Man
Tobias Smollett – The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
Voltaire – Micromégas. Histoire philosophique

Answer 2

Year 1751.

Thomas Gray writes Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard. Denis Diderot begins the Encyclopédie. Over the next three decades Encyclopédie attracts, alongside of those from Diderot, notable contributions from other notable intellectuals of the 18th century including Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Louis de Jaucourt.