Publications
- While in debtor's prison, John Cleland writes the erotic novel Fanny Hill (Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure), the first part of which is published on 21 November.
- David Hume's philosophical treatise An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding.
- Samuel Richardson's novel Clarissa.
- Tobias Smollett's novel The Adventures of Roderick Random.
- James Thomson's poem The Castle of Indolence, shortly before his death.
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