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The year 1760 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
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Events
- The death of George II leads to the accession of George III of the United Kingdom.
- James Beattie becomes a professor at the University of Aberdeen.
- Fanny Burney and her family move to London.
- Edward III (play) attributed to William Shakespeare by Edward Capell.
- The MS NKS 1867 4° (Den nye kongelige samling) manuscript is authored.
New books
- John Balguy - Sermons, vol. 2 (posthumously published)
- William Law - Of Justification by Faith and Works
- John Shebbeare - The History of the Sumatrans (satire on the Whigs)
- Tobias Smollett - The British Magazine (periodical)
- Laurence Sterne - The Sermons of Mr. Yorick (the author's sermons)
- William Tytler - An Historical and Critical Inquiry into the Evidence Against Mary Queen of Scots
Poetry
- James Beattie - Original Poems and Translations
- George Colman the Elder - Odes
- John Delap - Elegies
- Robert Lloyd - The Actor
- - The Tears and Triumphs of Parnassus
- George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton - Dialogues of the Dead
- James Macpherson as "translator" - Fragments of Ancient Poetry Collected in the Highlands of Scotland
- James Scott - Heaven
- John Scott - Four Elegies
Fiction
- Anonymous - Yorick's Meditations upon Various Interesting and Important Subjects (an imitation of Tristram Shandy)
- Frances Brooke - Letters from Juliet
- John Cleland - The Romance of a Day
- Sarah Fielding - The History of Ophelia
- Charles Johnstone - Chrysal vols. i - ii
- Tobias Smollett - The Life and Adventures of Sir Lancelot Greaves
New drama
- George Colman the Elder – Polly Honeycomb
- Carlo Goldoni - La casa nova
- Samuel Foote - The Minor
- John Home - The Siege of Aquileia
- Arthur Murphy - The Desert Island
- - The Way to Keep Him
- George Alexander Stevens - The French Flogged
Births
- March 10 - Leandro Fernández de Moratín, Spanish dramatist & poet (died 1828)
- May 10 - Johann Peter Hebel (died 1826)
- June 12 - Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvrai, French novelist, playwright, journalist, politician, and diplomat (d. 1797)
- October 25 - Arnold Hermann Ludwig Heeren, German historian (died 1842)
Deaths
- March 28 - Margaret Woffington, noted actress, subject of Charles Reade's novel, Peg Woffington (born c.1720)
- April 6 - Charlotte Charke, novelist and dramatist, daughter of Colley Cibber (born 1713)
- April 10 - Jean Lebeuf, historian (born 1687)
- date unknown - Isaac Hawkins Browne (poet) (born 1705)
- date unknown - Browne Willis, historian (born 1682)
