1758 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1758. Events April 15 – Samuel Johnson begins publishing a series of essays, The Idler (1758–1760), in the Universal Chronicle. April 24 – Robert Dodsley and his brother James sign a contract with Edmund Burke to launch The Annual Register. April 27 – The French historian Jean-François Marmontel enters the service of Madame de Pompadour. July/August – The poet and children's writer Anna Laetitia Barbauld and her family move to Warrington in north-west England. October – Voltaire buys an estate at Ferney in eastern France. unknown date – The French mathematician and philosopher Pierre Louis Maupertuis moves to his final home in Basel, Switzerland. New books Prose John Armstrong as Launcelot Temple – Sketches, or, Essays on Various Subjects Charlotte Lennox – Henrietta Thomas Marryat – Therapeutics, or a New Practice of Physic (in Latin) Madame Riccoboni – Histoire du marquis de Cressy Horace Walpole A Dialogue Between Two Great Ladies Fugitive Pieces