1755 in literature
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This is a list of literature-related events in 1755.
Events
- April 15 - Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language is published by the group of London booksellers who commissioned it in June 1746.[1]
- Milton's Paradise Lost is translated into French prose by Louis Racine.
- First New Testament in the Ume Sami language is published.
New Books
Fiction
- Charlotte Charke - The History of Mr. Henry Dumont and Miss Charlotte Evelyn
- Eliza Haywood as "Exploralibus" - The Invisible Spy
- Samuel Richardson - A Collection of ... Sentiments
- John Shebbeare - Letters on the English Nation
- Tobias Smollett - The History and Adventures of the Renowned Don Quixote
Poetry
- John Byrom - Epistle in Defence of Rhyme
- George Colman, the Elder and Bonnell Thornton (ed.) - Poems by Eminent Ladies
- John Gilbert Cooper - The Tomb of Shakespear
- David Dalrymple (editor) - Edom of Gordon: an ancient Scottish poem
- Stephen Duck - Caesar's Camp
Non-fiction
- Thomas Amory - Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain
- Theophilus Cibber - An Epistle to David Garrick
- Madame de Maintenon - Mémoires
- Philip Doddridge - Hymns Founded on Various Texts
- Henry Fielding - The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon
- Aryeh Leib ben Asher Gunzberg - Shaagas Aryeh (Hebrew: שאגת אריה, "Roar of the Lion")
- James Hervey - Theron and Aspasio; or a series of letters upon the most important and interesting subjects
- Benjamin Hoadly - Twenty Sermons
- Francis Hutcheson - A System of Moral Philosophy
- Samuel Johnson - A Dictionary of the English Language
- Étienne-Gabriel Morelly - Code de la nature, ou de véritable esprit de ses lois
- Frederic Louis Norden - Voyage d'Egypte et de Nubie
- Charles Wesley - An Epistle to John Wesley
- Edward Young - The Centaur not Fabulous; in five letters to a friend
Drama
- John Brown - Barbarosa
- John Cleland - Titus Vespasian
- Thomas Francklin - The Orphan of China
- David Garrick - The Fairies (opera)
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - Miss Sara Sampson
- David Mallet - Britannia
- Vicente Garcia de la Huerta - Endimión
Births
- February 17 – Dorothy Kilner, English children's writer (died 1836)
- February 21 – Anne Grant, Scottish poet (died 1838)
- December 31 – Thomas Grenville, English politician and book collector (died 1846)
- Unknown dates
- Archibald Bell, Scottish lawyer and miscellanist (died 1854)
- George Dyer, English poet and classicist (died 1841)
- Eliza Fay, English letter-writer and traveler (died 1816)
- Maria Elizabetha Jacson, English writer on botany and gardening (died 1829)
Deaths
- February 10 – Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu, French satirist (born 1689)
- March – Jane Collier, English novelist (born 1715)
- April 6 – Richard Rawlinson, English antiquary and cleric (born 1690)
- September 9 – Johann Lorenz von Mosheim, German Lutheran church historian (born 1693)
- December 29 – Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve, French children's writer (born c. 1695)
- Unknown date – Antoni Serra Serra, Spanish religious writer (born 1708)
References
- ↑ "Icons, a portrait of England 1750-1800". Archived from the original on 17 August 2007. Retrieved 2007-08-24.