1766 in literature

See also: 1765 in literature, other events of 1766, 1767 in literature, list of years in literature.

List of years in literature       (table)
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Contents 1 Events 2 New books 3 New drama 3.1 Poetry 3.2 Non-fiction 4 Births 5 Deaths

Events

• Fanny Burney's first visit to the house of Samuel Crisp

New books

• Henry Brooke - The Fool of Quality
• Genuine Memoirs of the Celebrated Miss Maria Brown (anonymous erotica)
• Oliver Goldsmith - The Vicar of Wakefield
• Catherine Jemmat - Miscellanies
• Charlotte Lennox - The History of Eliza
• Susannah Minifie - The Picture
• Sarah Scott - The History of Sir George Ellison
• Anna Williams - Miscellanies in Prose and Verse

New drama

• George Colman the Elder and David Garrick - The Clandestine Marriage
• Thomas Francklin - The Earl of Warrick
• Elizabeth Griffith - The Double Mistake
• Thomas Hull - The Fairy Favour

Poetry

• Mark Akenside - An Ode to the Late Thomas Edwards
• Christopher Anstey - The New Bath Guide
• James Beattie - Poems
• John Cunningham - Poems
• John Freeth - The Political Songster
• Oliver Goldsmith - Poems for Young Ladies (edited)
• Charles Jenner - Poems
• Henry James Pye - Beauty
• Christoph Martin Wieland - Agathon

Non-fiction

• Francis Blackburne - The Confessional (theology of confession)
• Edmund Burke - A Short Account of a Late Short Administration
• Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - Laocoön (dramaturgy)
• Thomas Pennant - The British Zoology
• William Shakespeare - Twenty of the Plays of Shakespeare, George Stevens ed.
• Samuel Sharp - Letters from Italy
• Tobias Smollett - Travels through France and Italy
• Laurence Sterne - The Sermons of Mr Yorick vols. iii-iv
• Thomas Tyrwhitt - Observations and Conjectures Upon Some Passages of Shakespeare
• John Wesley - A Plain Account of Christian Perfection

Births

• February 14 - Thomas Malthus (died 1834)
• April 22 - Anne Louise Germaine de Staël (died 1817)
• May - Isaac D'Israeli (died 1848)

Deaths

• March 21 - Richard Dawes (born 1708)
• James Francis Edward Stuart, the Old Pretender to the throne of England.