1715 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1715.

Events

• c. August – Nicholas Rowe becomes Poet Laureate of Great Britain.
• First record of the actress and writer Eliza Haywood, performing in Thomas Shadwell's Shakespeare adaptation, Timon of Athens; or, The Man-Hater at the Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin.^[1]

New books

Births

• January 14 (baptised) – Frances Vane, Viscountess Vane (Lady Fanny), English memoirist (died 1788)
• January 26 or February 26 – Claude Adrien Helvétius, French philosophical writer (died 1771)
• June 4 (c. 1715–1724) – Cao Xueqin, Chinese writer (died 1763)
• September 30 – Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, French philosophical writer (died 1780)
• October 1 – Richard Jago, English poet (died 1781)
• Probable year of birth
  • John Hawkesworth, English writer and editor (died 1773)^[2]
  • Alexander Russell, Scottish physician and naturalist (died 1768)

Deaths

• February 25 – Pu Songling (蒲松齡), Qing Dynasty Chinese writer (born 1640)
• March 8 – William Dampier, English explorer and writer (born 1651)
• March 17 – Gilbert Burnet, Scottish theologian and historian (born 1643)
• July 30 – Nahum Tate, Irish poet and hymnist (born 1652)
• Unknown date – Mary Monck, Irish poet (date of birth unknown)

In literature

• Walter Scott's novel Rob Roy (1817) climaxes around the time of the Jacobite rising of 1715.

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