1785 in literature
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See also: 1784 in literature, other events of 1785, 1786 in literature, list of years in literature.
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[edit] Events
- January 1 - First publication of the Daily Universal Register (later The Times)
- Thomas Warton becomes Poet Laureate
- Mary Bowes is abducted by her estranged husband, Andrew Robinson Stoney.
[edit] New books
- Sophia Lee - The Recess, or a Tale of other Times
- Karl Philipp Moritz - Anton Reiser (to 1790)
- Marquis de Sade - Les 120 journées de Sodome
[edit] New drama
- Elizabeth Kemble - Philander and Rose
- Elizabeth Inchbald - I'll Tell You What
[edit] Poetry
- János Bacsanyi - The Valour of the Magyars
- Friedrich Schiller - Ode to Joy
[edit] Non-fiction
- James Boswell - Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson
- William Paley - The Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy
[edit] Births
- January 4 - Jakob Grimm
- March 7 - Alessandro Manzoni, Italian poet and novelist
- March 21 - Henry Kirke White, poet
- May 18 - John Wilson ("Christopher North" of Blackwood's Magazine)
- August 15 - Thomas de Quincey
- October 18 - Thomas Love Peacock
