This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1756.
Events
- March 1 – The first issue of The Critical Review is published, with Tobias Smollett as editor.[1]
- April–May – Beginning of the Seven Years' War in Europe.
- June 20 – The Black Hole of Calcutta incident inspires renewed British efforts in India.
- October 29 – Frances Abington first acts with the company of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London.
- November – Gilbert White becomes curate at his birthplace of Selborne in Hampshire, England, for the second time.
- December 14 – Rev. John Home's blank verse tragedy Douglas is performed for the first time, in Edinburgh, with considerable success, in spite of the opposition of the local church presbytery, who summon Rev. Alexander Carlyle to answer for having attended its representation.[2] However, it fails in its early promise to set up a new Scottish dramatic tradition.
New books
Fiction
- Anonymous – The Life and Memoirs of Mr. Ephraim Tristram Bates
- Thomas Amory – Life of John Buncle
- Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont – "La Belle et la Bête" ("Beauty and the Beast", abridged version, in Magasin des enfants, ou dialogues entre une sage gouvernante et plusieurs de ses élèves)
- Charlotte Lennox – The Memoirs of the Countess of Berci
- Samuel Richardson (anonymously) – The Paths of Virtue Delineated, children's versions of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison
Poetry
Drama
Non-fiction
- Corporate authorship – The Literary Magazine (periodical to 1758)
- Thomas Birch – The History of the Royal Society of London vol. i
- William Blackstone – An Analysis of the Laws of England
- Edmund Burke – A Vindication of Natural Society
- Alban Butler – The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints (frequently abridged and reprinted)
- Theophilus Cibber – Dissertations on Theatrical Subjects
- Daniel Fenning – The Universal Spelling Book, or, A New and Easy Guide to the English Language
- José Francisco de Isla – Triunfo del amor y de la lealtad o Día Grande de Navarra
- Johann Matthias Gesner – Primæ lineæ isagoges in eruditionem universalem
- James Grieve – translation of A. Cornelius Celsus of Medicine
- Eliza Haywood
- as "Mira" – The Wife
- posthumously – The Husband: in Answer to The Wife
- David Hume – The History of Great Britain vol. ii
- Leopold Mozart – Versuch einer gründlichen Violinschule
- Alexander Russell – The Natural History of Aleppo
- Tobias Smollett
- A Compendium of Authentic and Entertaining Voyages
- (et al.) The Critical Review (periodical to 1790)
- Voltaire – Essai sur les mœurs et l'esprit des nations
- Joseph Warton – An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope
- John Wesley – An Address to the Clergy
Births
Deaths
References
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