1771 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1771.
Events
- April 9 â 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.[1]
- Sophie von La Roche's Geschichte des Fräuleins von Sternheim: Von einer Freundin derselben aus Original-Papieren und andern zuverläÃigen 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,[2] the first epistolary novel and the first "sentimental" novel.
- Matthias Claudius begins editing and publishing the newspaper Der Wandsbecker Bothe.[3]
- 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).[4]
- Archbishop Richard Robinson founds the Armagh Public Library in the north of Ireland.[5]
New books
Fiction
- Sophia Briscoe â Miss Melmoth; or the New Clarissa
- Claude Joseph Dorat â Les Sacrifices de l'amour
- Elizabeth Griffith â The History of Lady Barton
- John Langhorne â Letters to Eleonara
- Henry Mackenzie â The Man of Feeling[6]
- Louis-Sébastien Mercier â L'An 2440, rêve s'il en fut jamais[7]
- Tobias Smollett â The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
- Sophie von La Roche â Geschichte des Fräuleins von Sternheim
Children
- Christopher Smart â Hymns for the Amusement of Children
Drama
- Isaac Bickerstaffe â He Wou'd If He Cou'd
- José Cadalso â Sancho GarcÃa
- Richard Cumberland â The West Indian
- Denis Diderot â Le Fils Naturel
- Carlo Goldoni â Le Bourru Bienfaisant
- Samuel Foote â The Maid of Bath
- Hugh Kelly â Clementina
- George Alexander Stevens â The Fair Orphan
- Alexander Sumarokov â Dmitri the Usurper
Poetry
- James Beattie â The Minstrel
- James Cawthorn â Poems
- John Langhorne â The Fables of Flora
- Thomas Percy â The Hermit of Warkworth
- Henry James Pye â The Triumph of Fashion
- Christoph Martin Wieland â Der neue Amadis
Non-fiction
- John Brown â Description of the Lake of Keswick
- Charles Burney â The Present State of Music in France and Italy
- John Dalrymple â Memoirs of Great Britain and Ireland
- John William Fletcher â Five Checks to Antinomianism
- Oliver Goldsmith â The History of England
- Samuel Johnson â Thoughts on the Late Transactions Respecting Falkland's Islands
- Martinez de Pasqually â Traité sur la réintégration des êtres dans leur première propriété, vertu et puissance spirituelle divine (approximate year)
- Thomas Pennant â A Tour in Scotland
- Richard Price â Observations on Reversionary Payments
- William Smellie â Encyclopædia Britannica (in 100 volumes)
- Emanuel Swedenborg â True Christian Religion
- John Wesley â Works
- Arthur Young â The Farmer's Tour Through the East of England
- Real Academia Española â Gramática
Births
- January 17 â Charles Brockden Brown, American novelist (died 1810)
- February 5 â John Lingard, English historian and Catholic priest (died 1851)
- March 23 â Lumley Skeffington, English playwright and fop (died 1850)
- June 13 â Sydney Smith, English wit and cleric (died 1845)
- August 15 â Sir Walter Scott, Scottish novelist and poet (died 1832)
- November 4 â James Montgomery, Scottish-born poet and hymnist (died 1854)
- December 25 â Dorothy Wordsworth, English diarist and poet (died 1855)
- December 26 â Heinrich Joseph von Collin, Austrian dramatist (died 1811)
Deaths
- January 11 â Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens, French philosopher (born 1704)
- February 2 â John Lockman, English historian, poet and translator (born 1698)
- March 9 â Henry Pemberton, English man of letters and physician (born 1694)
- May 21 â Christopher Smart, English poet (born 1722)
- July 30 â Thomas Gray, English poet (born 1716)
- September 17 â Tobias Smollett, Scottish novelist, journalist and translator (born 1721)
- October 14 â John Gill, English theologian (born 1697)
- December 26 â Claude Adrien Helvétius, French philosopher (born 1715)[8]
- probable â Luis Galiana y Cervera, Spanish theologian, philologist and writer (born 1740)