1758 in literature

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This is a list of literature-related events in 1758.

Events

April 15 - Samuel Johnson begins publishing the series of essays The Idler (1758–1760) in the Universal Chronicle.
April 24 - Robert Dodsley and his brother James sign a contract with Edmund Burke to launch The Annual Register.
Jean-François Marmontel enters the service of Madame de Pompadour.
Anna Laetitia Barbauld and her family move to Warrington in Cheshire.
Pierre Louis Maupertuis moves to his final home at Basel, Switzerland.
Voltaire buys estate at Ferney.

John Armstrong as Launcelot Temple - Sketches
Charlotte Lennox - Henrietta
Horace Walpole
- A Dialogue Between Two Great Ladies
- Fugitive Pieces
Madame Riccoboni - Histoire du marquis de Cressy
José Francisco de Isla - Historia del famoso predicador Fray Gerundio de Campazas, alias Zotes

William Blackstone - A Discourse on the Study of Law
John Brown - An Explanatory Defence of the Estimate of the Manners and Principles of the Times (see 1757)
Elizabeth Carter ed. - All the Works of Epicetus
Benjamin Franklin - Father Abraham's Sermon
Oliver Goldsmith as "James Willington" - The Memoirs of a Protestant
William Hawkins - Tracts in Divinity
Claude Adrien Helvétius - De l'Esprit
Henry Home - Historical Law-Tracts
Robert Lowth - The Life of William of Wykeham
Antoine Simon Le Page Du Pratz - Histoire de la Louisiane (History of Louisiana)
Antoine-Joseph Pernety
- Dictionnaire mytho-hermétique, dans lequel on trouve les allégories fabuleuses des poètes, les métaphores, les énigmes et les termes barbares des philosophes hermétiques expliqués
- Les Fables égyptiennes et grecques dévoilées et réduites au même principe, avec une explication des hiéroglyphes et de la guerre de Troye
Richard Price - A Review of the Principal Questions and Difficulties in Morals
Emanuel Swedenborg
- Earths in the Universe
- Heaven and Hell
- New Jerusalem and its Heavenly Doctrine
- The Last Judgement
Jonathan Swift - The History of the Last Four Years of the Queen
Horace Walpole - A Catalogue of the Royal and Noble Authors of England
Arthur Young - The Theatre of the Present War in North America
Andrés Marcos Burriel - Paleografía española

January 12 – Dmitry Gorchakov, Russian writer, dramatist and poet (died 1824)
October 16 – Noah Webster, American lexicographer (died 1843)
December 9 – Richard Colt Hoare, English antiquary, archeologist and traveler (died 1838)