- 1775 in literature
Events
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October 19 -Samuel Johnson ,Henry Thrale andHester Thrale , visiting Paris, dine with KingLouis XVI of France and QueenMarie Antoinette .New books
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Hester Chapone - "Miscellanies"
*Geoffrey Chaucer - "The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer" (Thomas Tyrwhitt , ed.)
*William Combe - "Letters from Eliza to Yorick" (forgeries supposed to be fromEliza Draper toLaurence Sterne )
*Charles Johnstone - "The Pilgrim"
*Samuel Jackson Pratt , as "Courtney Melmoth" - "Liberal Opinions, upon Animals, Man, and Providence"
* "Moral Tales" (anonymous)
*Richard Savage - "The Works of Richard Savage" (Samuel Johnson , ed.)New drama
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Vittorio Alfieri - "Cleopatra"
*Pierre Beaumarchais - "Le Barbier de Séville "
* Richard Cumberland - "The Choleric Man"
*Thomas Francklin - "Matilda"
*David Garrick - "Bon Ton"
*Thomas Hull - "Edward and Eleonara"
*Robert Jephson - "Braganza"
*Charlotte Lennox - "Old City Manners"
*Gotthold Lessing - "Die Juden"
*Richard Brinsley Sheridan - "The Rivals"Poetry
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George Crabbe - "Inebriety"
*Hugh Downman - "The Drama"
*Thomas Gray - "Poems"
*Edward Jerningham - "The Fall of Mexico"
* Mary Robinson - "Poems"Non-fiction
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Edmund Burke
**"Speech on American Taxation, April 19, 1774"
**"Speech on Conciliation with the Colonies, March 22, 1775"
*Elizabeth Griffith - "The Morality of Shakespeare's Comedy Illustrated"
*John Howie - "Biographia Scoticana"
*Samuel Johnson - "A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland "
** - "Taxation No Tyranny " (in answer to the American revolutionaries)
*Henrietta Knight - "Letters to William Shenstone"
*James Macpherson - "The History of Great Britain"
* theAbbé Morelly - "The Code of Nature"
*Joseph Priestley - "Hartley's Theory of the Human Mind"
*Laurence Sterne
**"Letters of the Late Rev. Mr. L. Sterne"
**"Sterne's Letters to his Friends on Various Occasions"
*John Wesley - "A Calm Address to Our American Colonies"Births
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January 30 -Walter Savage Landor
*February 10 -Charles Lamb
*December 16 -Jane Austen Deaths
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January 8 -John Baskerville , printer, typefounder
*January 13 -Johann Georg Walch , theologianAwards
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