1744 in literature

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

Events

February 5 - Spranger Barry makes his debut as an actor at the Theatre Royal, Dublin.
February 6 - Samuel Foote makes his debut as an actor as Othello at the Haymarket Theatre, London.
April - The Female Spectator (a monthly) is founded by Eliza Haywood in England, the first periodical written for women by a woman.
April 14 - The Physico-Historical Society is formed in Dublin for the preservation of 'manuscripts, rare printed books, and natural curiosities relating to Ireland'.^[1]
May 29 - Alexander Pope is received into the Catholic Church, a day before his death.

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)
Antonio de Zamora - No hay deuda que no se pague y convidado de piedra

John Armstrong - The Art of Preserving Health
George Berkeley - Siris
Émilie 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 Mr Richard 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).
Emanuel Swedenborg - The Animal Kingdom (Soul's Domain) (1744–45)
Jonathan Swift - Three Sermons

↑ Moody, T. W. et al., eds. (1989). A New History of Ireland. 8: A Chronology of Irish History. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-821744-2.