1715 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1715. Events c. August – Nicholas Rowe becomes the Poet Laureate of Great Britain. The first record of the actress and writer Eliza Haywood tells of her performing in Thomas Shadwell's Shakespeare adaptation, Timon of Athens; or, The Man-Hater at the Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin. New books Prose Joseph Addison – The Free-Holder (periodical) Jane Barker – Exilius; or, The Banished Roman Richard Bentley – A Sermon upon Popery Samuel Croxall – The Vision Daniel Defoe An Appeal to Honour and Justice The Family Instructor A Hymn to the Mob Elizabeth Elstob – The Rudiments of Grammar for the English-Saxon Tongue, first given in English; with an apology for the study of northern antiquities, the first grammar of Old English Thomas-Simon Gueullette – Les Mille et un quarts-d’heure, contes tartares (The Thousand and One Quarters of an Hour, Tartarian Tales) Alain-René Lesage (anonymous) – L'Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane (Books 1–6) Charles Montagu – The Works and Life of the Late Earl of Halifax Jonathan Richardson – An Essay on the Theory of Painting "Captain" Alexander Smith – The Secret History of the Lives of the Most Celebrated Beauties, Ladies of Quality, and Jilts Richard Steele The Englishman: Second Series (periodical) Town-Talk (periodical)