1744 in literature

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The year 1744 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

May 29 - Alexander Pope is received into the Roman Catholic faith, a day before his death.
Samuel Foote makes his debut as an actor.
The Female Spectator (periodical) is founded by Eliza Haywood.

Mary Collyer - Felicia to Charlotte (prose fiction)
Sarah Fielding - The Adventures of David Simple
Eliza Haywood - The Fortunate Foundlings (prose fiction)
Edward Moore - Fables for the Female Sex
John Newbery - A Little Pretty Pocket-Book
William Oldys - The Harleian Miscellany (introduction by Samuel Johnson)
Joseph Warton - The Enthusiast
Paul Whitehead - The Gymnasiad
Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book (earliest extant collection of English language nursery rhymes)

Robert Dodsley - A Select Collection of Old Plays
William Harvard - Regulus
James Miller - Joseph and his Brethren (music by Handel)
- - Mahomet the Imposter (adapted from Voltaire's Mahomet)
Thomas Odell - The Prodigal
James Ralph - The Astrologer (adapted from Thomas Tomkis's Albumazar, which was adapted from Giambattista della Porta's L'astrologo)

John Armstrong - The Art of Preserving Health
George Berkeley - Siris
Emilie de Breteuil, marquise du Chatelet -Dissertation sur la nature et la propagation du feu
Colley Cibber - Another Occasional Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope
David Garrick - An Essay on Acting (attrib.)
Samuel Johnson
- Life of Savage
- An Account of the Life of John Philip Barretier
Alexander Pope - Essay on Man, volume 4: "Epistle: Of the Nature and State of Man, with Respect to" (4) "Happiness" (the first 2 epistles were written in 1732 and the third in 1733).
Jonathan Swift - Three Sermons

March 31 - Antiochus Kantemir, diplomat and writer (born 1708)
May 30 - Alexander Pope, poet and satirist (born 1688)
September 18 - Lewis Theobald, Shakespearean editor and literary "dunce" (b. 1688)
unknown date
- Charlotte Fielding, wife of Henry Fielding; she was his model for Sophia Western in Tom Jones
- Thomas Innes, Scottish historian (born 1662)
- James Miller, poet and dramatist (born 1703)