1775 in literature

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Events

• October 19 - Samuel Johnson, Henry Thrale and Hester Thrale, visiting Paris, dine with King Louis XVI of France and Queen Marie Antoinette.

New books

• Hester Chapone - Miscellanies
• Geoffrey Chaucer - The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer (Thomas Tyrwhitt, ed.)
• William Combe - Letters from Eliza to Yorick (forgeries supposed to be from Eliza Draper to Laurence Sterne)
• Charles Johnstone - The Pilgrim
• Samuel Jackson Pratt, as "Courtney Melmoth" - Liberal Opinions, upon Animals, Man, and Providence
• Moral Tales (anonymous)
• Nicolas-Edme Rétif - Le Paysan perverti
• Richard Savage - The Works of Richard Savage (Samuel Johnson, ed.)

New drama

• 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

• George Crabbe - Inebriety
• Hugh Downman - The Drama
• Thomas Gray - Poems
• Edward Jerningham - The Fall of Mexico
• Mary Robinson - Poems

Non-fiction

• 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^{[disambiguation needed ]} - Letters to William Shenstone
• James Macpherson - The History of Great Britain
• the Abbé 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

• January 30 - Walter Savage Landor
• February 10 - Charles Lamb
• August 2 - William Henry Ireland, forger of Shakespeariana
• December 16 - Jane Austen

Deaths

• January 8 - John Baskerville, printer, typefounder
• January 13 - Johann Georg Walch, theologian

Awards

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