1766 in literature

1766 in literature

"See also:" 1765 in literature, other events of 1766, 1767 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

* Fanny Burney's first visit to the house of Samuel Crisp

New books

* Henry Brooke - "The Fool of Quality"
*"Genuine Memoirs of the Celebrated Miss Maria Brown" (anonymous erotica)
* Oliver Goldsmith - "The Vicar of Wakefield"
* Catherine Jemmat - "Miscellanies"
* Hugh Kelly - "Memoirs of a Magdalen"
* Charlotte Lennox - "The History of Eliza"
* Susannah Minifie - "The Picture"
* Sarah Scott - "The History of Sir George Ellison"
* Anna Williams - "Miscellanies in Prose and Verse"

New drama

* George Colman the Elder and David Garrick - "The Clandestine Marriage"
* Thomas Francklin - "The Earl of Warrick"
* Elizabeth Griffith - "The Double Mistake"
* Thomas Hull - "The Fairy Favour"

Poetry

* Mark Akenside - "An Ode to the Late Thomas Edwards"
* Christopher Anstey - "The New Bath Guide"
* James Beattie - "Poems"
* John Cunningham - "Poems"
* John Freeth - "The Political Songster"
* Oliver Goldsmith - "Poems for Young Ladies" (edited)
* Charles Jenner - "Poems"
* Henry James Pye - "Beauty"
* Christoph Martin Wieland - "Agathon"

Non-fiction

* Francis Blackburne - "The Confessional" (theology of confession)
* Edmund Burke - "A Short Account of a Late Short Administration"
* Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - "Laocoön" (dramaturgy)
* Thomas Pennant - "The British Zoology"
* William Shakespeare - "Twenty of the Plays of Shakespeare", George Stevens ed.
* Samuel Sharp - "Letters from Italy"
* Tobias Smollett - "Travels through France and Italy"
* Laurence Sterne - "The Sermons of Mr Yorick" vols. iii-iv
* Thomas Tyrwhitt - "Observations and Conjectures Upon Some Passages of Shakespeare"
* John Wesley - "A Plain Account of Christian Perfection"

Births

* February 14 - Thomas Malthus (died 1834)
* April 22 - Anne Louise Germaine de Staël (died 1817)
* May - Isaac D'Israeli (died 1848)

Deaths

* March 21 - Richard Dawes (born 1708)
* James Francis Edward Stuart, the Old Pretender to the throne of England.


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