1735 in literature

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The year 1735 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

1 Events
2 New books
3 New drama
4 Births
5 Deaths

[edit] Events

Samuel Johnson marries Elizabeth "Tetty" Porter, twenty years his senior.
August 4 - At the end of the trial of John Zenger for seditious libel in the New York Weekly Journal, he is found not guilty by the jury.

[edit] New books

Anonymous - The Dramatic Historiographer (attrib. Eliza Haywood)
George Berkeley - The Querist
Jane Brereton - Merlin
Henry Brooke - Universal Beauty
Robert Dodsley - Beauty
Benjamin Hoadly - A Plain Account of the Nature and End of the Sacrament of the Lord's-Supper
John Hughes - Poems on several occasions : With some select essays in prose
Hildebrand Jacob - Brutus the Trojan
- - Works
Samuel Johnson - A Voyage to Abyssinia
George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton - Letters from a Persian in England
William Melmoth - Of Active and Retired Life
John Oldmixon - the History of England, During the Reigns of William and Mary, Anne, George I
Alexander Pope - An Epistle from Mr. Pope to Dr. Arbuthnot (just after Arbuthnot's death)
- - Of the Characters of Women ("Moral Epistle II")
- - The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope
- - Letters of Mr. Pope, and Several Eminent Persons (a piracy by Edmund Curll, with forgeries included)
- - Mr. Pope's Literary Correspondence for Thirty Years, 1704 to 1734 (authorized)
Antoine François Prévost - Le Doyen de Killerine
Samuel Richardson - A Seasonable Examination of the Pleas and Pretensions of the Proprietors of, and Subscribers to, Play-Houses
Henry St. John - A Dissertation upon Parties
Richard Savage - The Progress of a Divine
William Somerville - The Chace
Jonathan Swift, Pope, Arbuthnot, et al. - Miscellanies in Prose and Verse: Volume the Fifth
- - Works
James Thomson - Ancient and Modern Italy Compared
- - Greece
- - Rome

[edit] New drama

Henry Carey - The Honest Yorkshireman
Charlotte Charke - The Art of Management
Charles Coffey - The Merry Cobbler
Robert Dodsley - The Toyshop
William Duncombe - Junius Brutus
Henry Fielding:
- An Old Man Taught Wisdom
- The Universal Gallant
George Lillo - The Christian Hero
James Miller - The Man of Taste
William Popple - The Double Deceit
Lewis Theobald - The Fatal Secret
James Worsdale - A Cure for a Scold (a farcical ballad opera adaptation of John Lacy's Sauny the Scot, itself an adaptation of The Taming of the Shrew)