1735 in literature

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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^{[disambiguation needed ]} - A Dissertation upon Parties
• Richard Savage - The Progress of a Divine
• William Somervile - 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