1775 in literature
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| List of years in literature (table) |
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| ... 1765 . 1766 . 1767 . 1768 . 1769 . 1770 . 1771 ... 1772 1773 1774 -1775- 1776 1777 1778 ... 1779 . 1780 . 1781 . 1782 . 1783 . 1784 . 1785 ... In poetry: 1772 1773 1774 -1775- 1776 1777 1778 |
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[edit] Events
- October 19 - Samuel Johnson, Henry Thrale and Hester Thrale, visiting Paris, dine with King Louis XVI of France and Queen Marie Antoinette.
[edit] New books
- Hester Chapone - Miscellanies
- Geoffrey Chaucer - The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer (Thomas Tyrwhitt, ed.)
- William Combe - Letters from Eliza to Yorick (forgeries supposed to be from Eliza Draper to Laurence Sterne)
- Charles Johnstone - The Pilgrim
- Samuel Jackson Pratt, as "Courtney Melmoth" - Liberal Opinions, upon Animals, Man, and Providence
- Moral Tales (anonymous)
- Nicolas-Edme Rétif - Le Paysan perverti
- Richard Savage - The Works of Richard Savage (Samuel Johnson, ed.)
[edit] New drama
- Vittorio Alfieri - Cleopatra
- Pierre Beaumarchais - Le Barbier de Séville
- Richard Cumberland - The Choleric Man
- Thomas Francklin - Matilda
- David Garrick - Bon Ton
- Thomas Hull - Edward and Eleonara
- Robert Jephson - Braganza
- Charlotte Lennox - Old City Manners
- Gotthold Lessing - Die Juden
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan - The Rivals
[edit] Poetry
- George Crabbe - Inebriety
- Hugh Downman - The Drama
- Thomas Gray - Poems
- Edward Jerningham - The Fall of Mexico
- Mary Robinson - Poems
[edit] Non-fiction
- Edmund Burke
- Speech on American Taxation, April 19, 1774
- Speech on Conciliation with the Colonies, March 22, 1775
- Elizabeth Griffith - The Morality of Shakespeare's Comedy Illustrated
- John Howie - Biographia Scoticana
- Samuel Johnson - A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland
- - Taxation No Tyranny (in answer to the American revolutionaries)
- Henrietta Knight[disambiguation needed
] - Letters to William Shenstone - James Macpherson - The History of Great Britain
- the Abbé Morelly - The Code of Nature
- Joseph Priestley - Hartley's Theory of the Human Mind
- Laurence Sterne
- Letters of the Late Rev. Mr. L. Sterne
- Sterne's Letters to his Friends on Various Occasions
- John Wesley - A Calm Address to Our American Colonies
[edit] Births
- January 30 - Walter Savage Landor
- February 10 - Charles Lamb
- August 2 - William Henry Ireland, forger of Shakespeariana
- December 16 - Jane Austen
[edit] Deaths
- January 8 - John Baskerville, printer, typefounder
- January 13 - Johann Georg Walch, theologian
[edit] Awards
- N/A
