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Overview of the events of 1735 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1735 .
Events
May 10 –
Charles Macklin unintentionally kills another actor,
Thomas Hallam , during a fight at Drury Lane Theatre, in front of witnesses; Macklin is later convicted of manslaughter.
[1]
August 4 – A jury finds
John Peter Zenger not guilty of seditious
libel in
The New York Weekly Journal .
September 3 –
Samuel Johnson marries Elizabeth "Tetty" Porter, twenty years his senior, at
St Werburgh's Church, Derby .
Jesuit scholar
Jean-Baptiste Du Halde publishes Description Géographique, Historique, Chronologique, Politique et Physique de l'Empire de la Chine et de la Tartarie Chinois in
Paris , including Father
Joseph Henri Marie de Prémare 's translation of
The Orphan of Zhao ("L'Orphelin de la Maison de Tchao";
13th century ), the first Chinese play to have been published in any European language.
[2]
The
Sublime Society of Beef Steaks is established by
John Rich at the
Theatre Royal, Covent Garden , London, as a dining club mainly for literary men.
New books
Prose
Anonymous (attributed to
Eliza Haywood – The Dramatic Historiographer
John Atkins – A Voyage to Guinea, Brazil, and the West Indies
George Berkeley – The Querist
Jane Brereton – Merlin
Henry Brooke – Universal Beauty
Robert Dodsley – Beauty
Jean-Baptiste Du Halde – Geographical, Historical, Chronological, Political, and Physical Description of the Empire of China and Chinese Tartary
Benjamin Hoadly – A Plain Account of the Nature and End of the Sacrament of the Lord's-Supper
Hildebrand Jacob – Works
Samuel Johnson – A Voyage to Abyssinia
Carl Linnaeus – Systema Naturae
George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton – Letters from a Persian in England
Benoît de Maillet – Description de l'Egypte
William Melmoth – Of Active and Retired Life
John Oldmixon – The History of England, during the Reigns of William and Mary, Anne, George I
Alexander Pope
An Epistle from Mr. Pope to Dr. Arbuthnot (just after
Arbuthnot's death)
Of the Characters of Women (Moral Epistle II)
The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope
Letters of Mr. Pope, and Several Eminent Persons (a piracy by
Edmund Curll , with forgeries included)
Mr. Pope's Literary Correspondence for Thirty Years, 1704 to 1734 (authorized)
Antoine François Prévost – Le Doyen de Killerine
Samuel Richardson – A Seasonable Examination of the Pleas and Pretensions of the Proprietors of, and Subscribers to, Play-Houses
Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke – A Dissertation upon Parties
William Somervile – The Chace
Jonathan Swift , Pope, Arbuthnot, et al.
Miscellanies in Prose and Verse: Volume the Fifth
Works
Claudine Guérin de Tencin – Mémoires du comte de Comminge (Memoirs of the Count of Comminge)
Diego de Torres Villarroel – Conquista del reino de Nápoles por su rey don Carlos de Borbón
Drama
Poetry
Births
Deaths
References
^ Philip H. Highfill; Kalman A. Burnim; Edward A. Langhans (1984).
A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers & Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800 . SIU Press. p. 29.
ISBN
978-0-8093-1130-9 .
^ Liu, Wu-Chi (1953). "The Original Orphan of China ". Comparative Literature . 5 (3).
JSTOR
1768912 .
^ Thomas Philbrick (1970).
St. John de Crèvecoeur . Twayne Publishers. p. 11.
^
The Church History of England . 1742. p. 487.
^ George Edward Cokayne (1913).
The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom: Canonteign to Cutts . St. Catherine Press, Limited. p. 130.