1769 in literature

1769 in literature

"See also:" 1768 in literature, other events of 1769, 1770 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

* John Wilkes is expelled from Parliament.
* Thomas Chatterton sends "Rowley"'s "History of England" to Horace Walpole.
* David Garrick holds his "Shakespeare Jubilee" at Stratford-upon-Avon.

New books

Fiction

* Elizabeth Bonhôte - "Hortensia, or, The Distressed Wife"
* Frances Brooke - "The History of Emily Montague" (the first novel written in Canada)
* Elizabeth Griffith and Richard Griffith
**"The Delicate Distress"
**"Two Novels: in Letters"
* Charles Jenner - "The Placid Man"
* Margaret Minifie with Susannah Minifie Gunning - "The Hermit"
* Susannah Minifie - "The Cottage"
* Tobias Smollett - "The History and Adventures of an Atom"
* William Tooke - "The Loves of Othniel and Achsah"

Poetry

* Mary Bowes, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne - "The Siege of Jerusalem"
* Basílio da Gama - "O Uruguai"
* Thomas Gray - "Ode Performed in the Senate-House at Cambridge"
* John Ogilvie - "Paradise"
* Clara Reeve - "Poems"

New drama

* George Colman the Elder - "The Oxonian in Town"
* Richard Cumberland - "The Brothers"
* Alexander Dow - "Zingis"
* Elizabeth Griffith - "The School for Rakes"
* John Home - "The Fatal Discovery"
* Charlotte Lennox - "The Sister"

Nonfiction

* William Blackstone - "A Reply to Dr. Priestley"
* William Buchan - "Domestic Medicine"
* Edmund Burke - "Observations on a Late State of the Nation"
* Charles Burney - "An Essay Towards a History of the Principal Comets that have Appeared Since 1742"
* Adam Ferguson - "Institutes of Moral Philosophy"
* "Junius" (unknown, but possibly Philip Francis)
**"The Political Contest" i - ii
**"The Letters from Junius to the D*** of G*****" (to the Duke of Grafton)
* Oliver Goldsmith - "The Roman History" (textbook)
* James Granger - "Biographical History of England from Egbert the Great to the Revolution"
* Elizabeth Montagu - "An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Shakespear"
* Joshua Reynolds - "A Discourse"
* William Robertson - "The History of the Reign of the Emperor Charles V"
* Laurence Sterne
**"A political Romance"
**"Sermons by the Late Rev. Mr. Sterne"

Births

* February 9 - Susette Gontard, lover of German poet Friedrich Hölderlin
* May 21 - John Hookham Frere, diplomat and author
* November 12 - Amelia Opie
* Napoleon Bonapart
* Alexander von Humboldt, educator.

Deaths

* February 26 - William Duncombe, author
* Edward Kimber, journal editor and novelist


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