1771 In Literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1771.

Events

*April 9 – Pedro Correia Garção is arrested and committed to prison by Sebastião de Melo, Marquis of Pombal.
*''unknown dates''
**Henry Mackenzie's ''The Man of Feeling'' inaugurates the fashion for sentimentalism in novels.
**Sophie von La Roche's ''Geschichte des Fräuleins von Sternheim: Von einer Freundin derselben aus Original-Papieren und andern zuverläßigen Quellen gezogen'' ("History of Lady von Sternheim"), completed at Bönnigheim and published this year in Leipzig edited by the author's cousin Christoph Wieland in 2 volumes, is, within the tradition of German literature, the first significant novel by a woman, the first epistolary novel and the first "sentimental" novel.
**Matthias Claudius begins editing and publishing the newspaper ''Der Wandsbecker Bothe''.
**Slovene literature: The ''Nouvi Zákon'', a translation of the New Testament into the Prekmurje Slovene language by István Küzmics, the Hungarian Slovene writer and evangelical pastor, is published (in Halle).
**Archbishop Richard Robinson founds the Armagh Public Library in the north of Ireland.

New books

Fiction

*Sophia Briscoe – ''Miss Melmoth; or the New Clarissa''
*Claude Joseph Dorat – ''Les Sacrifices de l'amour''
*Elizabeth Griffith – ''The History of Lady Barton''
* John Langhorne – ''Letters to Eleonara''
*Henry Mackenzie – ''The Man of Feeling''
*Louis-Sébastien Mercier – ''L'An 2440, rêve s'il en fut jamais''
*Tobias Smollett – ''The Expedition of Humphry Clinker''
*Sophie von La Roche – ''Geschichte des Fräuleins von Sternheim''

Children

*Christopher Smart – ''Hymns for the Amusement of Children''

Drama

*Isaac Bickerstaffe – ''He Wou'd If He Cou'd''
*José Cadalso – ''Sancho García''
*Richard Cumberland – ''The West Indian''
*Denis Diderot – ''Le Fils Naturel''
*Carlo Goldoni – ''Le Bourru Bienfaisant''
* Hugh Kelly – ''Clementina''
*George Alexander Stevens – ''The Fair Orphan''
*Alexander Sumarokov – ''Dmitri the Usurper''

Poetry

* James Beattie – ''The Minstrel''
*James Cawthorn – ''Poems''
* John Langhorne – ''The Fables of Flora''
* Thomas Percy – ''The Hermit of Warkworth''
*Henry James Pye – ''The Triumph of Fashion''
*Christoph Martin Wieland – ''Der neue Amadis''

Non-fiction

*John Brown – ''Description of the Lake of Keswick''
*Charles Burney – ''The Present State of Music in France and Italy''
* John Dalrymple – ''Memoirs of Great Britain and Ireland''
*John William Fletcher – ''Five Checks to Antinomianism''
*Oliver Goldsmith – ''The History of England''
*Samuel Johnson – ''Thoughts on the Late Transactions Respecting Falkland's Islands''
*Martinez de Pasqually – '' Traité sur la réintégration des êtres dans leur première propriété, vertu et puissance spirituelle divine'' (approximate year)
*Thomas Pennant – ''A Tour in Scotland''
*Richard Price – ''Observations on Reversionary Payments''
* William Smellie – ''Encyclopædia Britannica'' (in 100 volumes)
*Emanuel Swedenborg – ''True Christian Religion''
*John Wesley – ''Works''
* Arthur Young – ''The Farmer's Tour Through the East of England''
*Real Academia Española – ''Gramática''

Births

*January 17 – Charles Brockden Brown, American novelist (died 1810)
*February 5 – John Lingard, English historian and Catholic priest (died 1851)
*March 23 – Lumley Skeffington, English playwright and fop (died 1850)
*June 13 – Sydney Smith, English wit and cleric (died 1845)
*August 15 – Sir Walter Scott, Scottish novelist and poet (died 1832)
*November 4 – James Montgomery, Scottish-born poet and hymnist (died 1854)
*December 25 – Dorothy Wordsworth, English diarist and poet (died 1855)
*December 26 – Heinrich Joseph von Collin, Austrian dramatist (died 1811)

Deaths

*January 11 – Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens, French philosopher (born 1704)
*February 2 – John Lockman, English historian, poet and translator (born 1698)
*March 9 – Henry Pemberton, English man of letters and physician (born 1694)
*May 21 – Christopher Smart, English poet (born 1722)
*July 30 – Thomas Gray, English poet (born 1716)
*September 17 – Tobias Smollett, Scottish novelist, journalist and translator (born 1721)
*October 14 – John Gill, English theologian (born 1697)
*December 26 – Claude Adrien Helvétius, French philosopher (born 1715)
*''probable'' – Luis Galiana y Cervera, Spanish theologian, philologist and writer (born 1740)

References

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