1775 in literature

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… 1765 ^. 1766 ^. 1767 ^. 1768 ^. 1769 ^. 1770 ^. 1771 … 1772 1773 1774 -1775- 1776 1777 1778 … 1779 ^. 1780 ^. 1781 ^. 1782 ^. 1783 ^. 1784 ^. 1785 … In poetry: 1772 1773 1774 -1775- 1776 1777 1778
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Events

Hester Chapone - Miscellanies
Geoffrey Chaucer - The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer (Thomas Tyrwhitt, ed.)
William Combe - Letters from Eliza to Yorick (forgeries supposed to be from Eliza Draper to Laurence Sterne)
Charles Johnstone - The Pilgrim
Samuel Jackson Pratt, as "Courtney Melmoth" - Liberal Opinions, upon Animals, Man, and Providence
Moral Tales (anonymous)
Nicolas-Edme Rétif - Le Paysan perverti
Richard Savage - The Works of Richard Savage (Samuel Johnson, ed.)

Edmund Burke
- Speech on American Taxation, April 19, 1774
- Speech on Conciliation with the Colonies, March 22, 1775
Elizabeth Griffith - The Morality of Shakespeare's Comedy Illustrated
John Howie - Biographia Scoticana
Samuel Johnson - A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland
- - Taxation No Tyranny (in answer to the American revolutionaries)
Henrietta Knight - Letters to William Shenstone
James Macpherson - The History of Great Britain
the Abbé Morelly - The Code of Nature
Joseph Priestley - Hartley's Theory of the Human Mind
Laurence Sterne
- Letters of the Late Rev. Mr. L. Sterne
- Sterne's Letters to his Friends on Various Occasions
John Wesley - A Calm Address to Our American Colonies