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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1771.
Events
thumb|right|190px|Original edition of the Nouvi Zákonin the Murska Sobota library
April 9 – Pedro Correia Garção is arrested and committed to prison by Sebastião de Melo, Marquis of Pombal.
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Henry Mackenzie's The Man of Feeling inaugurates the fashion for sentimentalism in novels.Stefano Castelvecchi Sentimental Opera: Questions of Genre in the Age of Bourgeois Drama https://books.google.com/books?id=dQdCAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA229 24 October 2013 Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-46952-5 229
Sophie von La Roche's Geschichte des Fräuleins von Sternheim: Von einer Freundin derselben aus Original-Papieren und andern zuverläßigen Quellen gezogen ("History of Lady von Sternheim"), completed at Bönnigheim and published this year in Leipzig edited by the author's cousin Christoph Wieland in 2 volumes, is, within the tradition of German literature, the first significant novel by a woman,Baldwin, Claire (2000). "Sophie von La Roche." In Konzett, Matthias (ed.) Encyclopedia of German Literature 2. Chicago; London: Fitzroy Dearborn. the first epistolary novel and the first "sentimental" novel.
Matthias Claudius begins editing and publishing the newspaper Der Wandsbecker Bothe.Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi Main Philosophical Writings and the Novel Allwill https://books.google.com/books?id=Oeet5Lqd6nwC&pg=PA615 1994 McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP 978-0-7735-1018-0 615
Slovene literature: The Nouvi Zákon, a translation of the New Testament into the Prekmurje Slovene language by István Küzmics, the Hungarian Slovene writer and evangelical pastor, is published (in Halle).Sebastian Kempgen Peter Kosta Tilman Berger Karl Gutschmidt Die slavischen Sprachen / The Slavic Languages. Halbband 2 https://books.google.com/books?id=GACTBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA1432 26 November 2014 Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG 978-3-11-021547-2 1432
Archbishop Richard Robinson founds the Armagh Public Library in the north of Ireland.http://armaghpubliclibrary.arm.ac.uk/ Armagh Public Library - founded in 1771 armaghpubliclibrary.arm.ac.uk 14 January 2022 https://web.archive.org/web/20120804104716/http://armaghpubliclibrary.arm.ac.uk/ 4 August 2012 dead
New books
Fiction
Sophia Briscoe – Miss Melmoth; or the New Clarissa
Claude Joseph Dorat – Les Sacrifices de l'amour
Elizabeth Griffith – The History of Lady Barton
John Langhorne – Letters to Eleonara
Henry Mackenzie – The Man of FeelingDay Gary Lynch Jack The Encyclopedia of British Literature, 3 Volume Set: 1660 - 1789 9 March 2015 John Wiley & Sons 978-1-4443-3020-5 950 https://books.google.com/books?id=ThBhBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA950 en
Louis-Sébastien Mercier – L'An 2440, rêve s'il en fut jamaisWilkie Everett C. Jr 1984 Mercier's "L'An 2440": Its publishing history during the author's lifetime, Part I Harvard Library Bulletin New Series https://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/37364176 en-US 0017-8136
Tobias Smollett – The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
Sophie von La Roche – Geschichte des Fräuleins von Sternheim
Children
Christopher Smart – Hymns for the Amusement of Children
Drama
Isaac Bickerstaffe – He Wou'd If He Cou'd
José Cadalso – Sancho García
Richard Cumberland – The West Indian
Denis Diderot – Le Fils Naturel
Carlo Goldoni – Le Bourru Bienfaisant
Samuel Foote – The Maid of Bath
Hugh Kelly – Clementina
George Alexander Stevens – The Fair Orphan
Alexander Sumarokov – Dmitri the Usurper
Poetry
1771 in poetry
James Beattie – The Minstrel
James Cawthorn – Poems
John Langhorne – The Fables of Flora
Thomas Percy – The Hermit of Warkworth
Henry James Pye – The Triumph of Fashion
Christoph Martin Wieland – Der neue Amadis
Non-fiction
John Brown – Description of the Lake of Keswick
Charles Burney – The Present State of Music in France and Italy
John Dalrymple – Memoirs of Great Britain and Ireland
John William Fletcher – Five Checks to Antinomianism
Oliver Goldsmith – The History of England
Samuel Johnson – Thoughts on the Late Transactions Respecting Falkland's Islands
Martinez de Pasqually – Traité sur la réintégration des êtres dans leur première propriété, vertu et puissance spirituelle divine (approximate year)
Thomas Pennant – A Tour in Scotland
Richard Price – Observations on Reversionary Payments
William Smellie – Encyclopædia Britannica (in 100 volumes)
Emanuel Swedenborg – True Christian Religion
John Wesley – Works
Arthur Young – The Farmer's Tour Through the East of England
Real Academia Española – Gramática
Births
January 17 – Charles Brockden Brown, American novelist (died 1810)
February 5 – John Lingard, English historian and Catholic priest (died 1851)
March 23 – Lumley Skeffington, English playwright and fop (died 1850)
June 13 – Sydney Smith, English wit and cleric (died 1845)
August 15 – Sir Walter Scott, Scottish novelist and poet (died 1832)
November 4 – James Montgomery, Scottish-born poet and hymnist (died 1854)
December 25 – Dorothy Wordsworth, English diarist and poet (died 1855)
December 26 – Heinrich Joseph von Collin, Austrian dramatist (died 1811)
Deaths
January 11 – Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens, French philosopher (born 1704)
February 2 – John Lockman, English historian, poet and translator (born 1698)
March 9 – Henry Pemberton, English man of letters and physician (born 1694)
May 21 – Christopher Smart, English poet (born 1722)
July 30 – Thomas Gray, English poet (born 1716)
September 17 – Tobias Smollett, Scottish novelist, journalist and translator (born 1721)
October 14 – John Gill, English theologian (born 1697)
December 26 – Claude Adrien Helvétius, French philosopher (born 1715)National Cyclopaedia The National Encyclopædia. Libr. ed https://books.google.com/books?id=2vVb7yP8_4kC&pg=PA253 1879 253
probable – Luis Galiana y Cervera, Spanish theologian, philologist and writer (born 1740)
References
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External links
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