1755 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1755.
LEXICOGRAPHER. A writer of dictionaries; a harmless drudge that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words.
—Self-deprecating definition by Samuel Johnson from A Dictionary of the English Language
Events
- April 15 – Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language is published by the group of London booksellers who commissioned it in June 1746,[1] two months after Johnson was awarded the degree of Master of Arts (A.M.) by the University of Oxford, his alma mater.
- unknown dates
- Milton's Paradise Lost is translated into French prose by Louis Racine.
- The first New Testament in the Ume Sami language is published.
New Books
Fiction
- Charlotte Charke – The History of Mr. Henry Dumont and Miss Charlotte Evelyn
- Eliza Haywood as "Exploralibus" – The Invisible Spy
- Samuel Richardson – A Collection of ... Sentiments
- John Shebbeare – Letters on the English Nation
- Tobias Smollett – The History and Adventures of the Renowned Don Quixote
Poetry
- John Byrom – Epistle in Defence of Rhyme
- George Colman, the Elder and Bonnell Thornton (ed.) – Poems by Eminent Ladies
- John Gilbert Cooper – The Tomb of Shakespear
- David Dalrymple (editor) – Edom of Gordon: an ancient Scottish poem
- Stephen Duck – Caesar's Camp
Non-fiction
- Thomas Amory – Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain
- Theophilus Cibber – An Epistle to David Garrick
- Madame de Maintenon – Mémoires
- Philip Doddridge – Hymns Founded on Various Texts
- Henry Fielding – The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon
- Aryeh Leib ben Asher Gunzberg – Shaagas Aryeh (Hebrew: שאגת אריה, "Roar of the Lion")
- James Hervey – Theron and Aspasio; or a series of letters upon the most important and interesting subjects
- Benjamin Hoadly – Twenty Sermons
- Francis Hutcheson – A System of Moral Philosophy
- Samuel Johnson – A Dictionary of the English Language
- Étienne-Gabriel Morelly – Code de la nature, ou de véritable esprit de ses lois
- Frederic Louis Norden – Voyage d'Egypte et de Nubie
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau – Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men
- Charles Wesley – An Epistle to John Wesley
- Edward Young – The Centaur not Fabulous; in five letters to a friend
Drama
- John Brown – Barbarosa
- John Cleland – Titus Vespasian
- Thomas Francklin – The Orphan of China
- David Garrick – The Fairies (opera)
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing – Miss Sara Sampson
- David Mallet – Britannia
- Vicente Garcia de la Huerta – Endimión
Births
- February 17 – Dorothy Kilner, English children's writer (died 1836)
- February 21 – Anne Grant, Scottish poet (died 1838)
- March 5 – Jozef Ignác Bajza, pioneer Slovak novelist, satirist and priest (died 1836)
- March 15 – George Dyer, English poet and classicist (died 1841)
- December 31 – Thomas Grenville, English politician and book collector (died 1846)
- Unknown date – Maria Elizabetha Jacson, English writer on botany and gardening (died 1829)
- 1755/6 – Eliza Fay, English letter-writer and traveler (died 1816)
Deaths
- February 10 – Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu, French satirist (born 1689)[2]
- March – Jane Collier, English novelist (born 1715)
- April 6 – Richard Rawlinson, English antiquary and cleric (born 1690)
- September 9 – Johann Lorenz von Mosheim, German Lutheran church historian (born 1693)
- December 29 – Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve, French children's writer (born c. 1695)
- Unknown date – Antoni Serra Serra, Spanish religious writer (born 1708)
References
- ^ "Icons, a portrait of England 1750-1800". Archived from the original on 17 August 2007. Retrieved 2007-08-24.
- ^ Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu (1759). Miscellaneous Pieces of M. de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu. D. Wilson and T. Durham. p. 41.