1750 in literature
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The year 1750 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
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[edit] Events
- Tobias Smollett travels in France, collecting material for The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle.
- Weekly meetings for contributors to the Encyclopédie begin, at the salon of Baron d'Holbach.
- The Rambler is founded by Edward Cave; it lasts for 208 issues, and is mostly written by Samuel Johnson.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau wins the prize of the Academy of Dijon for his Discourse on the Arts and Sciences.
- Both the Jockey Club and the Hambledon Cricket Club are founded.
- The London theatres wage "the Romeo and Juliet war" — competing productions with David Garrick and Anne Bellamy at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane versus Spranger Barry and Susannah Cibber at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden.
- The Rambler (periodical) is founded, authored mainly by Samuel Johnson
[edit] New books
- Henry Brooke - A New Collection of Fairy Tales
- John Cleland - Fanny Hill (official and expurgated)
- Sarah Fielding (attr.) - The History of Charlotte Summers
- Edward Kimber - The Life and Adventures of Joe Thompson
- Charlotte Lennox - The Life of Harriot Stuart
- Robert Paltock - The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins
- Sarah Scott - The History of Cornelia
[edit] New drama
- Carlo Goldoni - La Bottega di Caffe
- William Shirley - Edward the Black Prince
- Voltaire - Oreste
- William Whitehead - The Roman Father
[edit] Poetry
- William Collins - The Passions
- Thomas Cooke - An Ode on Martial Virtue
- Robert Dodsley - The Oeconomy of Human Life
- Mary Jones - Miscellanies
- Thomas Warton - The Triumph of Isis
- Edward Young - The Complaint (aka Night Thoughts)
[edit] Non-fiction
- William Blackstone - An Essay on Collateral Consanguinity
- John Campbell - The Present State of Europe
- Zachary Grey - A Free and Familiar Letter to William Warburton
- Eliza Haywood - A Present for Women Addicted to Drinking (on the Gin crisis)
- Francis Hutcheson - Reflections Upon Laughter (philosophy of humor)
- Laurence Sterne - The Abuses of Conscience
[edit] Births
- January 7 - Robert Anderson (died 1803)
- September 5 - Robert Fergusson (died 1774)
[edit] Deaths
- February 8 - Aaron Hill, dramatist (born 1685)
- June 15 - Marguerite De Launay, Baronne Staal, French writer (born 1684)
- November 11 - Apostolo Zeno, poet and journalist (born 1668)
- November 18 - Susanna Highmore, poet (born 1690)
