1735 in literature
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The year 1735 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
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[edit] Events
- Samuel Johnson marries Elizabeth "Tetty" Porter, twenty years his senior.
- August 4 - At the end of the trial of John Zenger for seditious libel in the New York Weekly Journal, he is found not guilty by the jury.
[edit] New books
- Anonymous - The Dramatic Historiographer (attrib. Eliza Haywood)
- George Berkeley - The Querist
- Jane Brereton - Merlin
- Henry Brooke - Universal Beauty
- Robert Dodsley - Beauty
- Benjamin Hoadly - A Plain Account of the Nature and End of the Sacrament of the Lord's-Supper
- John Hughes - Poems on several occasions : With some select essays in prose
- Hildebrand Jacob - Brutus the Trojan
- - Works
- Samuel Johnson - A Voyage to Abyssinia
- George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton - Letters from a Persian in England
- William Melmoth - Of Active and Retired Life
- John Oldmixon - the History of England, During the Reigns of William and Mary, Anne, George I
- Alexander Pope - An Epistle from Mr. Pope to Dr. Arbuthnot (just after Arbuthnot's death)
- - Of the Characters of Women ("Moral Epistle II")
- - The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope
- - Letters of Mr. Pope, and Several Eminent Persons (a piracy by Edmund Curll, with forgeries included)
- - Mr. Pope's Literary Correspondence for Thirty Years, 1704 to 1734 (authorized)
- Antoine François Prévost - Le Doyen de Killerine
- Samuel Richardson - A Seasonable Examination of the Pleas and Pretensions of the Proprietors of, and Subscribers to, Play-Houses
- Henry St. John[disambiguation needed
] - A Dissertation upon Parties - Richard Savage - The Progress of a Divine
- William Somervile - The Chace
- Jonathan Swift, Pope, Arbuthnot, et al. - Miscellanies in Prose and Verse: Volume the Fifth
- - Works
- James Thomson - Ancient and Modern Italy Compared
- - Greece
- - Rome
[edit] New drama
- Henry Carey - The Honest Yorkshireman
- Charlotte Charke - The Art of Management
- Charles Coffey - The Merry Cobbler
- Robert Dodsley - The Toyshop
- William Duncombe - Junius Brutus
- Henry Fielding:
- An Old Man Taught Wisdom
- The Universal Gallant
- George Lillo - The Christian Hero
- James Miller - The Man of Taste
- William Popple - The Double Deceit
- Lewis Theobald - The Fatal Secret
- James Worsdale - A Cure for a Scold (a farcical ballad opera adaptation of John Lacy's Sauny the Scot, itself an adaptation of The Taming of the Shrew)
[edit] Births
- James Beattie (died 1803)
- July 5 - August Ludwig von Schlözer, historian (died 1809)
- December 31 - Jean de Crèvecoeur, French-American writer (died 1813)
- date unknown - Charles Joseph, Prince de Ligne, soldier and writer (died 1814)
- date unknown- Anna Hammar-Rosén, journalist
[edit] Deaths
- February 27 - John Arbuthnot (born 1667)
- April 5 - Samuel Wesley (poet) (born 1662)
- Thomas Hearne
