Prose •
Mary Astell (anonymous) –
A Serious Proposal to the Ladies, for the Advancement of Their True and Greatest Interest •
Charles Blount –
Miscellaneous Works (ed.
Charles Gildon) •
Gilbert Burnet –
An Essay on the Memory of the Late Queen (see
1694 in literature, as many memorials were written to
Mary II of England) •
Jeremy Collier –
Miscellanies upon Moral Subjects: The second part •
John Dennis –
The Court of Death •
John Dryden –
De Arte Graphica (trans. of
Charles Alphonse du Fresnoy) •
Laurence Echard –
The Roman History (vol. I) • "N. H." –
The Ladies Dictionary, being a general entertainment of the fair-sex: a work never attempted before in English (published by
John Dunton) •
Nicolaas Heinsius the Younger –
The Delightful Adventures and Wonderful Life of Mirandor () •
William Laud –
The History of the Troubles and Tryal of William Laud •
John Locke •
Further Considerations Concerning Raising the Value of Money •
The Reasonableness of Christianity as Delivered in the Scriptures •
A Vindication of the Reasonableness of Christianity (reply to John Edwards) •
John Norris –
Letters Concerning the Love of God (letters to
Mary Astell) • Sir
William Petty –
Quantulumcunque Concerning Money (published posthumously) •
John Phillips –
A Reflection on Our Modern Poetry • Sujan Rai –
Khulasat-ut-Tawarikh •
Robert South –
Tritheism (vs.
William Sherlock) •
Sir William Temple –
An Introduction to the History of England •
Lionel Wafer –
A New Voyage and Description of the Isthmus of America •
Ned Ward –
Female Policy Detected; or, The Arts of a Designing Woman Laid Open • Wu Chucai and Wu Diaohou (compiled and edited) –
Guwen Guanzhi, anthology of more than 200 works from Warring States period to Ming dynasty
Children •
Charles Perrault – '''' (Tales and stories of the past with morals.
Tales of Mother Goose)
Drama •
John Banks –
Cyrus the Great •
Catherine Trotter Cockburn –
Agnes de Castro •
William Congreve –
Love for Love •
Robert Gould –
The Rival Sisters •
George Granville –
The She-Gallants •
Charles Hopkins –
Pyrrhus King of Epirus •
Peter Anthony Motteux –
The Loves of Mars and Venus •
George Powell –
Bonduca, or the British Heroine •
Elkanah Settle –
Philaster; or, Love Lies A-Bleeding (adapted from
Fletcher's
Philaster) • Thomas Scott –
The Mock Marriage •
Thomas Southerne –
Oroonoko, or The Royal Slave: a tragedy (adapted from
Aphra Behn's novel
Oroonoko) •
Ariadne –
She Ventures and He Wins Poetry •
Joseph Addison –
A Poem to His Majesty •
Richard Blackmore –
Prince Arthur •
Colley Cibber –
A Poem on the Death of our Late Sovereign Lady, Queen Mary •
William Congreve –
The Mourning Muse of Alexas: A pastoral (on Mary II) •
John Milton –
The Poetical Works of Mr John Milton (ed. Patrick Hume) •
Matthew Prior – ''An English Ballad: In answer to Mr Despreaux's Pindarique ode on the taking of Namure'' •
Richard Steele –
The Procession: A poem on Her Majesties funeral •
See also 1695 in poetry ==Births==