1735 in literature
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The year 1735 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
Events
- Samuel JohnsonSamuel JohnsonSamuel Johnson , often referred to as Dr. Johnson, was an English author who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer...
marries Elizabeth "Tetty" Porter, twenty years his senior. - August 4 - At the end of the trial of John Zenger for seditious libel in the New York Weekly Journal, he is found not guilty by the jury.
New books
- Anonymous - The Dramatic Historiographer (attrib. Eliza HaywoodEliza HaywoodEliza Haywood , born Elizabeth Fowler, was an English writer, actress and publisher. Since the 1980s, Eliza Haywood’s literary works have been gaining in recognition and interest...
) - George BerkeleyGeorge BerkeleyGeorge Berkeley , also known as Bishop Berkeley , was an Irish philosopher whose primary achievement was the advancement of a theory he called "immaterialism"...
- The Querist - Jane BreretonJane BreretonJane Brereton was an English poet notable as a correspondent to The Gentleman's Magazine.-Biography:Jane was the daughter of Mr. Thomas Hughes, of Bryn Gruffydd near Mold, Flintshire by Anne Jones, his wife, and was born in 1685. Unusually for the time, Jane was educated, at least up to the age...
- Merlin - Henry Brooke - Universal Beauty
- Robert DodsleyRobert DodsleyRobert Dodsley was an English bookseller and miscellaneous writer.-Life:He was born near Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, where his father was master of the free school....
- Beauty - Benjamin HoadlyBenjamin HoadlyBenjamin Hoadly was an English clergyman, who was successively Bishop of Bangor, Hereford, Salisbury, and Winchester. He is best known as the initiator of the Bangorian Controversy.-Life:...
- A Plain Account of the Nature and End of the Sacrament of the Lord's-Supper - John Hughes - Poems on several occasions : With some select essays in prose
- Hildebrand Jacob - Brutus the Trojan
- - Works
- Samuel JohnsonSamuel JohnsonSamuel Johnson , often referred to as Dr. Johnson, was an English author who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer...
- A Voyage to Abyssinia - George Lyttelton, 1st Baron LytteltonGeorge Lyttelton, 1st Baron LytteltonGeorge Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton PC , known as Sir George Lyttelton, Bt between 1751 and 1756, was a British politician and statesman and a patron of the arts.-Background and education:...
- Letters from a Persian in England - William MelmothWilliam MelmothWilliam Melmoth was an English devotional writer and lawyer, whose major work, The Great Importance of a Religious Life Consider'd , proved to be one of the most popular pieces of religious writing of the 18th century.Melmoth was admitted to the Inns of Court to begin his training as a barrister...
- Of Active and Retired Life - John OldmixonJohn OldmixonJohn Oldmixon was an English historian.He was a son of John Oldmixon of Oldmixon, Weston-super-Mare in Somerset. His first writings were poetry and dramas, among them being Amores Britannici; Epistles historical and gallant ; and a tragedy, The Governor of Cyprus...
- the History of England, During the Reigns of William and Mary, Anne, George I - Alexander PopeAlexander PopeAlexander Pope was an 18th-century English poet, best known for his satirical verse and for his translation of Homer. He is the third-most frequently quoted writer in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, after Shakespeare and Tennyson...
- An Epistle from Mr. Pope to Dr. Arbuthnot (just after Arbuthnot'sJohn ArbuthnotJohn Arbuthnot, often known simply as Dr. Arbuthnot, , was a physician, satirist and polymath in London...
death)- - Of the Characters of Women ("Moral Epistle II")
- - The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope
- - Letters of Mr. Pope, and Several Eminent Persons (a piracy by Edmund CurllEdmund CurllEdmund Curll was an English bookseller and publisher. His name has become synonymous, through the attacks on him by Alexander Pope, with unscrupulous publication and publicity. Curll rose from poverty to wealth through his publishing, and he did this by approaching book printing in a mercenary...
, with forgeries included) - - Mr. Pope's Literary Correspondence for Thirty Years, 1704 to 1734 (authorized)
- Antoine François PrévostAntoine François PrévostAntoine François Prévost , usually known simply as the Abbé Prévost, was a French author and novelist.- Life and works :...
- Le Doyen de Killerine - Samuel RichardsonSamuel RichardsonSamuel Richardson was an 18th-century English writer and printer. He is best known for his three epistolary novels: Pamela: Or, Virtue Rewarded , Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady and The History of Sir Charles Grandison...
- A Seasonable Examination of the Pleas and Pretensions of the Proprietors of, and Subscribers to, Play-Houses - Henry St. JohnHenry St. JohnHenry St. John is the name of:*Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke , English politician and philosopher*Henry St. John , U.S. Representative from OhioHenry St...
- A Dissertation upon Parties - Richard SavageRichard SavageRichard Savage was an English poet. He is best known as the subject of Samuel Johnson's Life of Savage , on which is based one of the most elaborate of Johnson's Lives of the English Poets....
- The Progress of a Divine - William SomervileWilliam SomervileWilliam Somervile or Somerville was an English poet.-Ancestry:The name Somervile is derived from a town near Caen in Normandy subsequently named Somervile....
- The Chace - Jonathan SwiftJonathan SwiftJonathan Swift was an Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer , poet and cleric who became Dean of St...
, Pope, Arbuthnot, et al. - Miscellanies in Prose and Verse: Volume the Fifth- - Works
- James Thomson - Ancient and Modern Italy Compared
- - Greece
- - Rome
New drama
- Henry CareyHenry Carey (writer)Henry Carey was an English poet, dramatist and song-writer. He is remembered as an anti-Walpolean satirist and also as a patriot. Several of his melodies continue to be sung today, and he was widely praised in the generation after his death...
- The Honest Yorkshireman - Charlotte CharkeCharlotte CharkeCharlotte Charke was an English actress, playwright, novelist, autobiographer, and noted transvestite. She acted on the stage from the age of 17, mainly in breeches roles, and took to wearing male clothing off the stage...
- The Art of Management - Charles CoffeyCharles CoffeyCharles Coffey was an Irish playwright and composer.His best known opera is probably The Beggar’s Wedding , which capitalizes on the success of John Gay's The Beggar's Opera...
- The Merry Cobbler - Robert DodsleyRobert DodsleyRobert Dodsley was an English bookseller and miscellaneous writer.-Life:He was born near Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, where his father was master of the free school....
- The Toyshop - William DuncombeWilliam DuncombeWilliam Duncombe was a British author and playwright. He worked in the Navy Office from 1706 until 1725. That year, he and Elizabeth Hughes won a very large lottery sum on a joint ticket. He married Elizabeth in 1726 and "retired into literary leisure." The nature of their match is unknown,...
- Junius Brutus - Henry FieldingHenry FieldingHenry Fielding was an English novelist and dramatist known for his rich earthy humour and satirical prowess, and as the author of the novel Tom Jones....
:- An Old Man Taught Wisdom
- The Universal Gallant
- George LilloGeorge LilloGeorge Lillo was an English playwright and tragedian. He was a jeweler in London as well as a dramatist. He produced his first stage work, Silvia, or The Country Burial, in 1730. A year later, he produced his most famous play, The London Merchant...
- The Christian Hero - James MillerJames Miller (playwright)James Miller was an English playwright, poet, librettist, and minister.-Biography:Miller was born in Dorset, the son of a clergyman who possessed two considerable livings in the county...
- The Man of Taste - William Popple - The Double Deceit
- Lewis TheobaldLewis TheobaldLewis Theobald , British textual editor and author, was a landmark figure both in the history of Shakespearean editing and in literary satire...
- The Fatal Secret - James WorsdaleJames WorsdaleJames Worsdale was an Irish and English portrait painter, actor, literary fraud, and libertine whose lively conversation, wittiness, and boldness allowed him to move among the highest circles of literary life...
- A Cure for a Scold (a farcical ballad operaBallad operaThe term ballad opera is used to refer to a genre of English stage entertainment originating in the 18th century and continuing to develop in the following century and later. There are many types of ballad opera...
adaptation of John LacyJohn Lacy (playwright)John Lacy was an English comic actor and playwright during the Restoration era. In his own time he gained a reputation as "the greatest comedian of his day" and was the favorite comic of King Charles II.-Life:...
's Sauny the Scot, itself an adaptation of The Taming of the ShrewThe Taming of the ShrewThe Taming of the Shrew is a comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1590 and 1591.The play begins with a framing device, often referred to as the Induction, in which a mischievous nobleman tricks a drunken tinker named Sly into believing he is actually a nobleman himself...
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Births
- James BeattieJames Beattie (writer)Professor James Beattie FRSE was a Scottish poet, moralist and philosopher.He was born the son of a shopkeeper and small farmer at Laurencekirk in the Mearns, and educated at Aberdeen University. In 1760, he was appointed Professor of moral philosophy there as a result of the interest of his...
(died 1803) - July 5 - August Ludwig von SchlözerAugust Ludwig von SchlözerAugust Ludwig von Schlözer was a German historian who laid foundations for the critical study of Russian history.-Early career:...
, historian (died 1809) - December 31 - Jean de CrèvecoeurJean de CrèvecoeurMichel Guillaume Jean de Crèvecœur , naturalized in New York as John Hector St. John, was a French-American writer. He was born in Caen, Normandy, France, to the Comte and Comtesse de Crèvecœur .-Biography:In 1755 he immigrated to New France in North America...
, French-American writer (died 1813) - date unknown - Charles Joseph, Prince de LigneCharles Joseph, Prince de LigneCharles-Joseph Lamoral, 7th Prince de Ligne in French, Charles Joseph Lamoral 7te Fürst von Ligne : was a Field marshal and writer, and member of the princely family of Ligne.-Military service:He was the son of Field Marshal Claude Lamoral, 6th Prince of Ligne and Elisabeth Alexandrine...
, soldier and writer (died 1814) - date unknown- Anna Hammar-RosénAnna Hammar-RosénAnna Hammar-Rosén was a Swedish newspaper office editor. She managed a popular paper in Gothenburg between 1773 and 1795 and is believed to be Sweden's first female newspaper editor....
, journalist
Deaths
- February 27 - John ArbuthnotJohn ArbuthnotJohn Arbuthnot, often known simply as Dr. Arbuthnot, , was a physician, satirist and polymath in London...
(born 1667) - April 5 - Samuel Wesley (poet)Samuel Wesley (poet)Samuel Wesley was a poet and a writer of controversial prose. He was also the father of John Wesley and Charles Wesley, founders of the Methodist Church.-Family and early life:...
(born 1662) - Thomas HearneThomas HearneThomas Hearne or Hearn , English antiquary, was born at Littlefield Green in the parish of White Waltham, Berkshire.-Life:...