1773 in literature

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See also: 1772 in literature, other events of 1773, 1774 in literature, list of years in literature.

Contents 1 Events 2 New books 3 New drama 4 Births 5 Deaths

Events

• Richard Brinsley Sheridan marries Elizabeth Linley.
• Samuel Johnson and James Boswell tour the Western Isles of Scotland

New books

• Götz von Berlichingen - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral - Phillis Wheatley
• The Man of the World - Henry Mackenzie

New drama

• She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith
• The Adulateur by Mercy Otis Warren

Births

• October 23 - Francis Jeffrey

Deaths

• January 21 - Alexis Piron, dramatist and epigrammatist
• May 15 - Alban Butler, hagiographer
• July 5 - Francisco José Freire, historian and philologist
• August 20 - Enrique Florez, historian
• November 16 - John Hawkesworth, poet and editor