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      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.
      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. 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

      =

      Isaac Bickerstaffe – Leucothoe
      Richard Owen Cambridge – An Elegy Written in an Empty Assembly Room (parody of Pope's Eloisa to Abelard)
      Thomas Cole – The Arbour
      William Kenrick – Epistles to Lorenzo
      William Mason – Odes
      Christopher Pitt – Poems
      Christopher Smart
      Hymn to the Supreme Being
      The Works of Horace


      = Drama

      =
      Frances Brooke – Virginia
      John Brown – Athelstane
      Samuel Foote
      The Englishman Return'd from Paris
      The Green-Room Squabble or a Battle Royal between the Queen of Babylon and the Daughter of Darius
      David Garrick
      Catherine and Petruchio
      The Tempest (opera)
      Carlo Goldoni – Il campiello
      John Home – Douglas


      = 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


      March 3 – William Godwin, English writer (died 1836)
      April – William Gifford, English satirist (died 1826)
      June 13 – Edmund Lodge, English biographer and writer on heraldry (died 1839)
      July 13 – Thomas Rowlandson, English caricaturist (died 1827)
      July 25 (probable year) – Elizabeth Hamilton, Irish-born Scottish essayist, poet and novelist (died 1816)
      September 15 – Karl Philipp Moritz (C. P. Moritz), German essayist and travel writer (died 1793)
      November 2 – Pierre Laromiguière, French philosopher (died 1837)
      November 18 – Thomas Burgess, English philosopher and bishop (died 1837)


      Deaths


      February 25 – Eliza Haywood, English writer and actress (born 1693)
      March 26 – Gilbert West, English poet (born 1703)
      March 30 to April 2 – Stephen Duck, English poet (suicide, born c. 1705)
      June 4 – Benjamin Elbel, German theologian (born 1690)
      December 29 – Thomas Cooke, English translator, dramatist and critic (born 1703)


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