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New books

• Claude Joseph Dorat - Les Sacrifices de l'amour
• Elizabeth Griffith - The History of Lady Barton
• Henry Mackenzie - The Man of Feeling
• Tobias Smollett - The Expedition of Humphry Clinker

Claude Joseph Dorat (December 31, 1734 _ April 29, 1780), was a French writer, also known as Le Chevalier Dorat. ... Elizabeth Griffith, née Griffith (born 1727?, died 1793), was an eighteenth-century Irish dramatist, fiction writer, essayist and actress, best known for her edition of Shakespeares comedies published in 1775. ... Henry Mackenzie (August, 1745 - January 14, 1831), Scottish novelist and miscellaneous writer, was born in Edinburgh. ... The Man of Feeling is a 1771 picaresque novel by Scottish author Henry Mackenzie. ... Tobias Smollett Tobias George Smollett (March 19, 1721 - September 17, 1771) was a Scottish author, best known for his picaresque novels, such as Roderick Random and Peregrine Pickle. ... The expedition of Humphry Clinker was the last of the picaresque novels of Tobias Smollett, and is considered by many to be his best and funniest work. ...

New drama

• Richard Cumberland - The West Indian
• Denis Diderot - Le Fils Naturel
• Carlo Goldoni - Le Bourru Bienfaisant

Richard Cumberland (February 19, 1732 - May 7, 1811) was an English dramatist and civil servant. ... Portrait of Diderot by Louis-Michel van Loo, 1767 Denis Diderot (October 5, 1713 – July 31, 1784) was a French philosopher and writer. ... Carlo Goldoni Carlo Osvaldo Goldoni (25 February 1707 - 6 February 1793) was a celebrated Italian playwright, whom critics today rank among the European theatres greatest authors. ...

Births

• August 14 - Walter Scott, novelist
• December 25 - Dorothy Wordsworth
• John Lingard

August 14 is the 226th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (227th in leap years), with 139 days remaining. ... Portrait of Sir Walter Scott, by Sir Edwin Henry Landseer Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet (15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832) was a prolific Scottish historical novelist and poet popular throughout Europe during his time. ... December 25 is the 359th day of the year (360th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 6 days remaining in the year. ... Dorothy Wordsworth (December 25, 1771 – January 25, 1855) was an English poet and diarist and the sister of poet William Wordsworth. ... Father John Lingard (1771-1851) was a Roman Catholic priest and the author of The History Of England, From the First Invasion by the Romans to the Accession of Henry VIII, an 8-volume work published in 1819. ...

Deaths

• July 30 - Thomas Gray, poet (* 1716)
• October 14 - John Gill, theologian (born 1697)
• December 26 - Claude Adrien Helvétius, philosopher (born 1715)
• probable - Henry Mill, inventor of the typewriter