1735 in literature

1735 in literature

The year 1735 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

* Samuel Johnson 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 Haywood)
* George Berkeley - "The Querist"
* Jane Brereton - "Merlin"
* Henry Brooke - "Universal Beauty"
* Robert Dodsley - "Beauty"
* Benjamin Hoadly - "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 Johnson - "A Voyage to Abyssinia"
* George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton - "Letters from a Persian in England"
* William Melmoth - "Of Active and Retired Life"
* John Oldmixon - "the History of England, During the Reigns of William and Mary, Anne, George I"
* Alexander Pope - "An Epistle from Mr. Pope to Dr. Arbuthnot" (just after Arbuthnot's 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 Curll, with forgeries included)
** - "Mr. Pope's Literary Correspondence for Thirty Years, 1704 to 1734" (authorized)
* Antoine François Prévost - "Le Doyen de Killerine"
* Samuel Richardson - "A Seasonable Examination of the Pleas and Pretensions of the Proprietors of, and Subscribers to, Play-Houses"
* Henry St. John - "A Dissertation upon Parties"
* Richard Savage - "The Progress of a Divine"
* William Somerville - "The Chace"
* Jonathan Swift, 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 Carey - "The Honest Yorkshireman"
* Charlotte Charke - "The Art of Management"
* Charles Coffey - "The Merry Cobbler"
* Robert Dodsley - "The Toyshop"
* William Duncombe - "Junius Brutus"
* Henry Fielding:
** "An Old Man Taught Wisdom"
** "The Universal Gallant"
* George Lillo - "The Christian Hero"
* James Miller - "The Man of Taste"
* William Popple - "The Double Deceit"
* Lewis Theobald - "The Fatal Secret"
*James Worsdale - "A Cure for a Scold" (a farcical ballad opera adaptation of John Lacy's "Sauny the Scot", itself an adaptation of "The Taming of the Shrew")

Births

* James Beattie (died 1803)
* July 5 - August Ludwig von Schlözer, historian (died 1809)
* December 31 - Jean de Crèvecoeur, French-American writer (died 1813)
*"date unknown" - Charles Joseph, Prince de Ligne, soldier and writer (died 1814)
* "date unknown"- Anna Hammar-Rosén, journalist

Deaths

* February 27 - John Arbuthnot (born 1667)
* April 5 - Samuel Wesley (poet) (born 1662)
* Thomas Hearne


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