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1775 in literature - Wikipedia

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1775.

Events

January 17 – Richard Brinsley Sheridan's first play, the comedy of manners The Rivals, is premièred at the Covent Garden Theatre in London, then extensively rewritten. It reopens on January 28 to acclaim. The play introduces the character of Mrs. Malaprop.
February 23 – Pierre Beaumarchais' comedy Le Barbier de Séville is premièred by the Comédie-Française at the Tuileries Palace in Paris. Rewritten it reopens on February 26 to better success. It introduces the character of Figaro.
October 19 – Samuel Johnson, Henry Thrale and Hester Thrale, visiting Paris, watch King Louis XVI of France and Queen Marie Antoinette dining.^[1]
December 29 – The English actress Sarah Siddons makes her debut at the Drury Lane Theatre in London as Portia in The Merchant of Venice but is poorly received.^[2]

Hester Chapone – Miscellanies
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, editor)
Tahsin (Mir Muhammad Husain 'Ata Khan) – Nau Tarz-e-Murassa (Urdu translation of Amir Khusrow's The Tale of the Four Dervishes)

Edmund Burke
- Speech on American Taxation, April 19, 1774
- Speech on Conciliation with the Colonies, March 22, 1775
Susannah Dobson – Life of Petrarch (drawn from Jacques-François de Sade's Mémoires pour la vie de François Petrarch)
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: An Answer to the Resolutions and Address of the American Congress
Henrietta Knight – Letters to William Shenstone
James Macpherson – The History of Great Britain
Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau – Essai sur le despotisme
Joseph Priestley – Hartley's Theory of the Human Mind
Louis Claude de Saint-Martin – Des erreurs et de la vérité
Laurence Sterne (died 1768)
- 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

January 8 – John Baskerville, English printer and typefounder (born 1707)
January 13 – Johann Georg Walch, German theologian (born 1693)
March 5 – Pierre-Laurent Buirette de Belloy, French dramatist and actor (born 1727)
March 21 – Samuel Boyce, English engraver, dramatist and poet (unknown year of birth)^[5]
June 23 – Karl Ludwig von Pöllnitz, German adventurer and writer (born 1692)
November 21 – John Hill, English botanist novelist and dramatist (born c. 1716)

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