1775 in literature

1775 in literature

Events

* October 19 - Samuel Johnson, Henry Thrale and Hester Thrale, visiting Paris, dine with King Louis XVI of France and Queen Marie Antoinette.

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)
* Richard Savage - "The Works of Richard Savage" (Samuel Johnson, ed.)

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"

Poetry

* George Crabbe - "Inebriety"
* Hugh Downman - "The Drama"
* Thomas Gray - "Poems"
* Edward Jerningham - "The Fall of Mexico"
* Mary Robinson - "Poems"

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 - "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"

Births

* January 30 - Walter Savage Landor
* February 10 - Charles Lamb
* December 16 - Jane Austen

Deaths

* January 8 - John Baskerville, printer, typefounder
* January 13 - Johann Georg Walch, theologian

Awards

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