1755 in literature

Events

• Fort Duquesne, the French defeat the English.
• Samuel Johnson publishes his dictionary of the English language.
• Paradise Lost is translated into French prose by Louis Racine.

New Books

• Mémoires de Madame de Maintenon
• Thomas Amory - Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain
• Theophilus Cibber - An Epistle to David Garrick
• Philip Doddridge - Hymns Founded on Various Texts
• Henry Fielding - The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon
• James Hervey - Theron and Aspasio
• Benjamin Hoadly - Twenty Sermons
• Francis Hutcheson - A System of Moral Philosophy
• Samuel Johnson - A Dictionary of the English Language
• Frederic Louis Norden - Voyage d'Egypte et de Nubie
• Charles Wesley - An Epistle to John Wesley
• Edward Young - The Centaur not Fabulous

Poetry

• John Byrom - Epistle in Defence of Rhyme
• George Colman, the Elder and Bonnell Thornton - Poems by Eminent Laides
• John Gilbert Cooper - The Tomb of Shakespear
• David Dalrymple - Edom of Gordon
• Stephen Duck - Caesar's Camp

Fiction

• Charlotte Charke - The History of Mr. Henry Dumont and Miss Charlotte Evelyn
• Eliza Haywood as "Exploralibus" - The Invisible Spy
• Samuel Richardson - A Collection of ... Sentiments
• John Shebbeare - Letters on the English Nation
• Tobias Smollett - The History and Adventures of the Renowned Don Quixote

Drama

• John Brown - Barbarosa
• John Cleland - Titus Vespasian
• Thomas Francklin - The Orphan of China
• David Garrick - The Fairies (opera)
• David Mallet - Britannia

Births

• February 21 : Anne Grant (died 1838)
• George Dyer
• Marie Antoinette

Deaths

• February 10 : Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (born 1689)
• Jane Collier