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1760 in literature
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1750
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1770
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The year
1760 in literature
involved some significant events and new books.
Contents
1
Events
2
New books
2.1
Poetry
2.2
Fiction
3
New drama
4
Births
5
Deaths
Events
The death of
George II
leads to the accession of
George III of the United Kingdom
.
James Beattie
becomes a professor at the
University of Aberdeen
.
Fanny Burney
and her family move to
London
.
Edward III (play)
attributed to
William Shakespeare
by
Edward Capell
.
The
MS NKS 1867 4° (Den nye kongelige samling)
manuscript is authored.
New books
John Balguy
- Sermons, vol. 2 (posthumously published)
William Law
-
Of Justification by Faith and Works
John Shebbeare
-
The History of the Sumatrans
(satire on the Whigs)
Tobias Smollett
-
The British Magazine
(periodical)
Laurence Sterne
-
The Sermons of Mr. Yorick
(the author's sermons)
William Tytler
-
An Historical and Critical Inquiry into the Evidence Against Mary Queen of Scots
Poetry
James Beattie
-
Original Poems and Translations
George Colman the Elder
-
Odes
John Delap
-
Elegies
Robert Lloyd
-
The Actor
-
The Tears and Triumphs of Parnassus
George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton
-
Dialogues of the Dead
James Macpherson
as "translator" -
Fragments of Ancient Poetry Collected in the Highlands of Scotland
James Scott
-
Heaven
John Scott
-
Four Elegies
Fiction
Anonymous -
Yorick's Meditations upon Various Interesting and Important Subjects
(an imitation of
Tristram Shandy
)
Frances Brooke
-
Letters from Juliet
John Cleland
-
The Romance of a Day
Sarah Fielding
-
The History of Ophelia
Charles Johnstone
-
Chrysal
vols. i - ii
Tobias Smollett
-
The Life and Adventures of Sir Lancelot Greaves
New drama
George Colman the Elder
–
Polly Honeycomb
Carlo Goldoni
-
La casa nova
-
I rusteghi
Samuel Foote
-
The Minor
John Home
-
The Siege of Aquileia
Arthur Murphy
-
The Desert Island
-
The Way to Keep Him
George Alexander Stevens
-
The French Flogged
Births
March 10
-
Leandro Fernández de Moratín
, Spanish dramatist & poet (died
1828
)
May 10
-
Johann Peter Hebel
(died
1826
)
June 12
-
Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvrai
, French novelist, playwright, journalist, politician, and diplomat (d.
1797
)
October 25
-
Arnold Hermann Ludwig Heeren
, German historian (died
1842
)
Deaths
March 28
-
Margaret Woffington
, noted actress, subject of
Charles Reade
's novel,
Peg Woffington
(born c.
1720
)
April 6
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Charlotte Charke
, novelist and dramatist, daughter of
Colley Cibber
(born
1713
)
April 10
-
Jean Lebeuf
, historian (born
1687
)
date unknown
-
Isaac Hawkins Browne (poet)
(born
1705
)
date unknown
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Browne Willis
, historian (born
1682
)
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