1762 in literature

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Contents 1 Events 2 New books 3 New drama 4 Poetry 5 Non-fiction 6 Births 7 Deaths

[edit] Events

• Académie française produces new edition of its dictionary of the French language.

[edit] New books

• Jacques Cazotte - Ollivier
• John Leland - Longsword
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Émile
• Sarah Scott - A Description of Millenium Hall and the Country Adjacent

[edit] New drama

• Charlotte Lennox - The Sister

[edit] Poetry

• Tomás Antônio Gonzaga - Marília de Dirceu

[edit] Non-fiction

• Denis Diderot - Éloge de Richardson
• Paisiy Hilendarski - Slavonic-Bulgarian History
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Le Contrat Social (The Social Contract)
• Horace Walpole - Anecdotes of Painting in England, volume 1

[edit] Births

• January 11 - Andrew Cherry (died 1812)
• September 11 - Joanna Baillie (died 1851)
• September 24 - William Lisle Bowles (died 1850)

[edit] Deaths

• August 21 - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (born 1698)