1752 in literature
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The year 1752 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
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[edit] Events
- England adopts calendar reform and "loses" three weeks
- Tobias Smollett quarrels with Henry Fielding, accusing him of plagiarism.
[edit] New Books
- George Ballard - Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain
- George Berkeley - A Miscellany
- Thomas Birch - The Life of John Tillotson
- Francis Blackburne - A Serious Inquiry into the Use and Importance of External Religion
- William Dodd - The Beauties of Shakespeare
- Henry Fielding as "Sir Alexander Drawcansir" - The Covent-Garden Journal (periodical)
- John Hawkesworth - The Adventurer (periodical)
- David Hume - Political Discourses
- William Law - The Spirit of Love
- - The Way to Divine Knowledge
- Henry St. John - Letters on the Study and Use of History
[edit] Fiction
- Charlotte Lennox - The Female Quixote
- Voltaire - Histoire du docteur Akakia et du natif de Saint-Malo
[edit] Poetry
- Moses Browne - The Works and Rest of the Creation
- John Byrom - Enthusiasm
- Richard Owen Cambridge - A Dialogue Between a Member of Parliament and His Servant
- Thomas Cooke - Pythagoras
- William Mason - Elfrida
- Christopher Smart - Poems
[edit] Newly published drama
- Samuel Foote - Taste
[edit] Births
- January 3 : Johannes von Müller (died 1809)
- June 13 : Fanny Burney (died 1840)
- November 20 : Thomas Chatterton (died 1770)
- John Nash
[edit] Deaths
- January 16 : Francis Blomefield, topographer (born 1705)
- Samual Croxall
- William Whiston