1761 in literature

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Contents 1 New books 2 New drama 3 Poetry 4 Non-fiction 5 Births 6 Deaths

[edit] New books

• Denis Diderot - Le neveu de Rameau
• Tiphaigne de la Roche - L'Empire des Zaziris sur les humains ou la Zazirocratie
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Julie, ou la nouvelle Héloïse
• Frances Sheridan - Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph

[edit] New drama

• Richard Cumberland - The Banishment of Cicero
• Carlo Gozzi - The Love for Three Oranges

[edit] Poetry

• John Cleland - The Times!, vol. 2

[edit] Non-fiction

• Baron d'Holbach - Christianity unveiled
• Henry Home, Lord Kames - Introduction to the Art of Thinking

[edit] Births

• May 3 - August von Kotzebue (died 1819)
• September 8 - François Juste Marie Raynouard (died 1836)

[edit] Deaths

• April 9 - William Law, theologian (born 1686)
• April 15 - William Oldys, bibliographer (born 1696)
• July 4 - Samuel Richardson, novelist (born 1689)
• August 3 - Johann Matthias Gesner, librarian and classical scholar (born 1691)