1705 in literature

• April/May – Richard Steele, having left the army, marries a wealthy widow, Margaret Stretch. • July 29 – Richard Challoner enters the English College, Douai. • October 7 – William Somervile inherits his father's estate, where field sports will inspire much of his poetry. • October 30 – John Vanbrugh's play The Confederacy, adapted from the French, is first performed at his new London playhouse, The Queen's Theatre in the Haymarket. • December 27 – John Vanbrugh's play The Mistake is likewise adapted from the French and first performed at The Queen's Theatre. • Claude Pierre Goujet, religious historian and Jansenist, enters holy orders. • William Walsh begins a correspondence with Alexander Pope. • Work begins on Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire, England, designed by the playwright John Vanbrugh for the Duke of Marlborough. ==New books==

Prose • Joseph Addison – Remarks on Several Parts of Italy • Mary Astell – ''The Christian Religion as Profess'd by a Daughter of the Church'' • Dimitrie Cantemir – Historia Hieroglyphica (the first novel to use the Romanian language) • George Cheyne – Philosophical Principles of Natural Religion (deist) • Samuel Clarke – A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God • Mary Davys – The Fugitive • Daniel Defoe • The Consolidator; or, Memoirs of Sundry Transactions from the World in the Moon • A Second Volume of the Writings of the Author of the True-Born Englishman • John Dunton – The Life and Errors of John Dunton Late Citizen of London (humor) • Edmund Gibson – Family-Devotion • Charles Gildon – ''The Deist's Manual'' • Marie-Jeanne L'Héritier – La Tour ténébreuse, et les jours lumineux: contes anglois • Bernard de Mandeville – The Grumbling Hive (pirated edition) • Delarivière Manley – The Secret History, of Queen Zarah, and the Zarazians (roman à clef) • John Philips • Blenheim • The Splendid Shilling • Katherine Philips – Letters of Orinda to Poliarchus • John Toland – Primitive Constitution of the Christian Church Drama • Thomas Baker – Hampstead Heath • Susannah Centlivre • The Gamester (anonymously) • The Basset-Table • Colley Cibber – The Careless Husband • Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon – Idoménée • John Dennis – Gibraltar, or the Spanish Adventure • George Granville – The British Enchanters • William Grimston, 1st Viscount Grimston – The Lawyer’s Fortune or Love in a Hollow Tree • Peter Anthony Motteux • The Amorous Miser, or the Younger the Wiser • Arsinoe, Queen of Cyprus (opera) • William Mountfort – Zelmane • Mary Pix (attributed) – The Conquest of Spain (adapted from William Rowley's ''All's Lost by Lust'') • Nicholas Rowe – Ulysses • Richard Steele – The Tender Husband • John Vanbrugh – • The Confederacy • The Mistake Poetry • Richard Blackmore – Eliza • Daniel Defoe • The Double Welcome • The Dyet of Poland • Complete Tang Poems • Charles Johnson – The Queen; a Pindaric Ode • Matthew Prior – An English Padlock • Ned Ward – Hudibras Redidivus • Isaac Watts – Horae Lyricae See also 1705 in poetry ==Births==

• January 21 – Isaac Hawkins Browne, English poet (died 1760) • February 13 – Franciszka Urszula Radziwillowa, Polish dramatist (died 1753) • May – Ambrosius Stub, Danish poet (died 1758) • June 21 – David Hartley, English philosopher (died 1757) • September 2 – Abraham Tucker (Edward Search), English philosopher (died 1774) • October 29 – Gerhardt Friedrich Müller, German historian (died 1783) • November 23 – Thomas Birch, English historian (died 1766) • probable – Stephen Duck, English poet (died 1756) ==Deaths==

• January 4 – Madame d'Aulnoy, French author of fairy tales (born c. 1650) • January 10 – Étienne Pavillon, French lawyer and poet (born 1632) • February 5 – Philipp Jakob Spener, German theologian (born 1635) • April 2 – John Howe, English theologian (born 1630) • May 5 – Johann Ernst Glück, German writer and translator (born 1654) • June 10 – Michael Wigglesworth, English poet (born 1631) • October 17 – Ninon de l'Enclos, French courtesan and salonnière (born 1620) • November 10 – Justine Siegemund, German writer on midwifery (born 1636) ==References==