1767 in literature
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1766 in literature
See also: 1765 in literature, other events of 1766, 1767 in literature, list of years in literature.-New books:* Henry Brooke - The Fool of Quality*Genuine Memoirs of the Celebrated Miss Maria Brown...
, other events of 1767, 1768 in literature
1768 in literature
See also: 1767 in literature, other events of 1768, 1769 in literature, list of years in literature.-Events:*John Wilkes returns from exile in France and is elected to Parliament.*May 10 - John Wilkes is imprisoned for attacking King George III in print....
, list of years in literature.
Events
- The tax on tea and paper is imposed on the American colonies, leading to the Boston Tea PartyBoston Tea PartyThe Boston Tea Party was a direct action by colonists in Boston, a town in the British colony of Massachusetts, against the British government and the monopolistic East India Company that controlled all the tea imported into the colonies...
. - New TestamentNew TestamentThe New Testament is the second major division of the Christian biblical canon, the first such division being the much longer Old Testament....
translated into ManxManx languageManx , also known as Manx Gaelic, and as the Manks language, is a Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family, historically spoken by the Manx people. Only a small minority of the Island's population is fluent in the language, but a larger minority has some knowledge of it...
. - Richard PriceRichard PriceRichard Price was a British moral philosopher and preacher in the tradition of English Dissenters, and a political pamphleteer, active in radical, republican, and liberal causes such as the American Revolution. He fostered connections between a large number of people, including writers of the...
publishes his first volume of sermons.
New books
- Belisarius (anonymous)
- James BoswellJames BoswellJames Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck was a lawyer, diarist, and author born in Edinburgh, Scotland; he is best known for the biography he wrote of one of his contemporaries, the English literary figure Samuel Johnson....
- Dorando - The Female AmericanThe Female AmericanThe Female American; or, The Adventures of Unca Eliza Winkfield, is a novel, originally published in 1767, under the pseudonym of the main character/narrator, Unca Eliza Winkfield and edited in recent editions by Michelle Burnham. The novel describes the adventures of a half-Native American,...
(anonymous) - Phebe GibbesPhebe GibbesPhebe Gibbes was an 18th -century English novelist and early feminist. She authored twenty-two books between 1764 and 1790, and is best known for the novels The History of Mr. Francis Clive , The Fruitless Repentance; or, the History of Miss Kitty Le Fever , and The History of Miss Eliza Musgrove...
- The Woman of Fashion - Hugh Kelly - Memoirs of a MagdalenMemoirs of a MagdalenMemoirs of a Magdalen is a 1767 British novel by the Irish writer Hugh Kelly. Its full title is Memoirs of a Magdalen, or the History of Louisa Mildmay....
- Susannah Minifie - Barford Abbey
- Frances SheridanFrances SheridanFrances Sheridan was an Anglo-Irish novelist and playwright.Frances Sheridan was born in Dublin, Ireland. Her father, Dr. Phillip Chamberlaine, was an Anglican minister. In 1747 she married Thomas Sheridan, who was then an actor and theatre director, and at the same time she began work on her...
- Continuation of the Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph (posth)
- The History of Nourjahad
- Laurence SterneLaurence SterneLaurence Sterne was an Irish novelist and an Anglican clergyman. He is best known for his novels The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, and A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy; but he also published many sermons, wrote memoirs, and was involved in local politics...
- The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, GentlemanThe Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, GentlemanThe Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman is a novel by Laurence Sterne. It was published in nine volumes, the first two appearing in 1759, and seven others following over the next 10 years....
vol. ix - Arthur Young - The Adventures of Emmera
New drama
- Richard BentleyRichard BentleyRichard Bentley was an English classical scholar, critic, and theologian. He was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge....
- Philodamus - Isaac BickerstaffeIsaac BickerstaffeIsaac Bickerstaffe or Bickerstaff was an Irish playwright and Librettist.-Early life:Isaac John Bickerstaff was born in Dublin, on 26 September 1733, where his father John Bickerstaff held a government position overseeing the construction and management of sports fields including bowls and tennis...
- Lace in the City - George Colman the ElderGeorge Colman the ElderGeorge Colman was an English dramatist and essayist, usually called "the Elder", and sometimes "George the First", to distinguish him from his son, George Colman the Younger....
- The Oxonian in TownThe Oxonian in TownThe Oxonian in Town is a 1767 play by George Colman the Elder. It premiered on 7 November 1767 and was later published in 1769. A satire the work depicts a naive student of Oxford University travelling south to London where he becomes mixed up with shady company, only to be rescued by a fellow... - George Colman, the Elder - The English Merchant
- David GarrickDavid GarrickDavid Garrick was an English actor, playwright, theatre manager and producer who influenced nearly all aspects of theatrical practice throughout the 18th century and was a pupil and friend of Dr Samuel Johnson...
- Cymon - Hall Hartson - The Countess of Salisbury
- Arthur MurphyArthur MurphyArthur Murphy , also known by the pseudonym Charles Ranger, was an Irish writer.-Biography:He was born at Cloonyquin, County Roscommon, Ireland, the son of Richard Murphy and Jane French....
- The School for Guardians
Poetry
- Francis FawkesFrancis FawkesFrancis Fawkes was an English poet and translator. Fawkes translated Anacreon, Sappho, and other classics, modernised parts of the poems of Gavin Douglas, and was the author of the well-known song, The Brown Jug, and of two poems, Bramham Park and Partridge Shooting...
- Partridge-Shooting - Oliver GoldsmithOliver GoldsmithOliver Goldsmith was an Irish writer, poet and physician known for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield , his pastoral poem The Deserted Village , and his plays The Good-Natur'd Man and She Stoops to Conquer...
, ed. - The Beauties of English Poesy - Richard JagoRichard JagoRichard Jago was an English poet. He was the third son of Richard Jago, Rector of Beaudesert, Warwickshire.-Education:Jago was educated at Solihull School in the West Midlands. One of the school's five houses bears his name...
- Edge-Hill - Henry JonesHenry Jones-Arts:* Henry Jones , poet and dramatist, born Drogheda, Louth* Henry Arthur Jones , English playwright* Henry Festing Jones , author* Henry Jones Thaddeus , Irish painter...
- Kew Garden - Moses Mendes, ed. - A Collection of the Most Esteemed Pieces of Poetry
- William Mickle - The Concubine
- Christopher SmartChristopher SmartChristopher Smart , also known as "Kit Smart", "Kitty Smart", and "Jack Smart", was an English poet. He was a major contributor to two popular magazines and a friend to influential cultural icons like Samuel Johnson and Henry Fielding. Smart, a high church Anglican, was widely known throughout...
, trans. - The Works of Horace, Translated into Verse
Non-fiction
- John ByromJohn ByromJohn Byrom or John Byrom of Kersal or John Byrom of Manchester FRS was an English poet and inventor of a revolutionary system of shorthand. He is also remembered as the writer of the lyrics of Anglican hymn Christians Awake, salute the happy morn.- Early life :John Byrom was descended from an old...
- The Universal English Short-hand - William DuffWilliam Duff (writer)William Duff was a Scottish Presbyterian minister and one of the first writers to analyse the nature of genius as a property of human psychology...
- An Essay on Original Genius - Richard FarmerRichard FarmerDr Richard Farmer was a Shakespearean scholar and Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He is known for his Essay on the Learning of Shakespeare , in which he maintained that Shakespeare's knowledge of the classics was through translations, the errors of which he reproduced.-Life:He was born at...
- An Essay on the Learning of Shakespeare - Adam FergusonAdam FergusonAdam Ferguson FRSE, also known as Ferguson of Raith was a Scottish philosopher, social scientist and historian of the Scottish Enlightenment...
- An Essay on the History of Civil Society - Paul Henry Thiry, Baron d'HolbachBaron d'HolbachPaul-Henri Thiry, Baron d'Holbach was a French-German author, philosopher, encyclopedist and a prominent figure in the French Enlightenment. He was born Paul Heinrich Dietrich in Edesheim, near Landau in the Rhenish Palatinate, but lived and worked mainly in Paris, where he kept a salon...
-Christianisme dévoilé - Catherine MacaulayCatherine MacaulayCatharine Macaulay was an English historian.-Early life: 1731 – 1763:...
- Loose Remarks on Mr. Hobbes's Philosophical Rudiments of Government and Society (on Hobbes's 16511651 in literatureThe year 1651 in literature involved some significant events.-Events:*August 22 - Execution of Protestant preacher, Christopher Love, whose sermons were later published.-New books:...
work) - Joseph PriestleyJoseph PriestleyJoseph Priestley, FRS was an 18th-century English theologian, Dissenting clergyman, natural philosopher, chemist, educator, and political theorist who published over 150 works...
- The History and Present State of ElectricityElectricityElectricity is a general term encompassing a variety of phenomena resulting from the presence and flow of electric charge. These include many easily recognizable phenomena, such as lightning, static electricity, and the flow of electrical current in an electrical wire... - William WarburtonWilliam WarburtonWilliam Warburton was an English critic and churchman, Bishop of Gloucester from 1759.-Life:He was born at Newark, where his father, who belonged to an old Cheshire family, was town clerk. William was educated at Oakham and Newark grammar schools, and in 1714 he was articled to Mr Kirke, an...
- Sermons and Discourses - Arthur Young - The Farmer's Letters to the People of England
Births
- January 1 - Maria EdgeworthMaria EdgeworthMaria Edgeworth was a prolific Anglo-Irish writer of adults' and children's literature. She was one of the first realist writers in children's literature and was a significant figure in the evolution of the novel in Europe...
, novelist (died 1849) - February 4 - Andrew MarschalkAndrew MarschalkAndrew Marschalk was a New York-born printer, best known for championing the case of Ab-dul Rahman Ibrahima Ibn Sori, popularly known as the "Prince of Slaves"....
, printer (died 1838) - April 9 - Joseph FiévéeJoseph FiévéeJoseph Fiévée was a French journalist, novelist, essayist, playwright, civil servant and secret agent...
, French journalist, essayist, novelist and dramatist (died 1839) - September 10 - Melchiorre Gioia, philosophical writer (died 1829)
- October 25, Benjamin ConstantBenjamin ConstantHenri-Benjamin Constant de Rebecque was a Swiss-born French nobleman, thinker, writer and politician.-Biography:...
, novelist (died 1830) - December 8 - Fabre d'OlivetFabre d'OlivetAntoine Fabre d'Olivet was a French author, poet and composer whose Biblical and philosophical hermeneutics influenced many occultists, such as Eliphas Lévi and Gerard Encausse. His best known work today is his research on the Hebrew language, Pythagoras's thirty-six Golden Verses and the sacred...
, French poet and composer (died 1825) - date unknown
- Elizabeth BentleyElizabeth Bentley (writer)-Biography:She was born in Norwich to Elizabeth Lawrence and Daniel Bentley. The latter, a journeyman cordwainer who had himself received a good education, educated Elizabeth, his only child. The family faced financial difficulties after he had a stroke in 1777 and was unable to work at his usual...
, poet (died 1839) - Dorothy RipleyDorothy RipleyDorothy Ripley was an English missionary and writer who spent thirty years in the United States trying to secure better conditions for the slaves...
, missionary and reformist writer (died 1832)
- Elizabeth Bentley
Deaths
- February 28 - Charles BalguyCharles BalguyDr. Charles Balguy was an English physician and translator.Balguy was born at Derwent Hall, Derbyshire, and was educated at Chesterfield Grammar School and St. John's College, Cambridge, where he took the degree of M.B. in 1731, and M.D. in 1750. He practised at Peterborough, and was secretary of...
, translator (born 1708) - April 27 - Johann Gottlob CarpzovJohann Gottlob CarpzovJohann Gottlob Carpzov was a German Christian Old Testament scholar, a nephew of Johann Benedict Carpzov II and a son of Samuel Benedict Carpzov. He was the most famous and most important Biblical scholar of the Carpzov family...
, theologian (born 1679) - July 15 - Michael Bruce, poet (born 1746)
- July 26 - Paul Gottlieb WerlhofPaul Gottlieb WerlhofPaul Gottlieb Werlhof was a German physician and poet who was a native of Helmstedt. He studied medicine at the University of Helmstedt under Lorenz Heister and Brandanus Meibom , who was the son of Heinrich Meibom . After completing his studies, he practiced medicine in Peine for four...
, physician and poet (born 1699) - September 11 - Theophilus EvansTheophilus EvansTheophilus Evans was a Welsh clergyman and historian.Originally from Cardiganshire, Evans served curacies in Brecknockshire and incumbencies in both counties...
, clergyman and historian (born 1693) - October 1 - Léon MénardLéon MénardLéon Ménard was a French lawyer and historical writer.-Life:Ménard was born at Tarascon. When he had completed his study of the humanities under the Jesuits at Lyon, he studied jurisprudence at Toulouse and became counsellor at the Superior Court of Nîmes.From 1744 he was constantly in Paris...
, lawyer and historian (born 1706) - December 22 - John NewberyJohn NewberyJohn Newbery was an English publisher of books who first made children's literature a sustainable and profitable part of the literary market. He also supported and published the works of Christopher Smart, Oliver Goldsmith and Samuel Johnson...
, publisher (born 1713)