1736 in literature

• Charles Rivington founds a company of London booksellers known as the New Conger. ==New books==

Prose • Anonymous – The Life of Marianne (fiction, translation of Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux) • Joseph Addison – The Works of Petronius Arbiter (translation) • John Armstrong – The Oeconomy of Love • Thomas Bayes – An Introduction to the Doctrine of Fluxions, and a Defence of the Mathematicians Against the Objections of the Author of the Analyst • Isaac Hawkins Browne – A Pipe of Tobacco • Joseph Butler – Analogy of Religion • Thomas Carte – Life of James Duke of Ormonde • William Rufus Chetwood – The Voyages. . . of William Owen Gwin Vaughan • Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon – ''Les Égarements du cœur et de l'esprit (Strayings of the Heart and Mind),'' part one • John Gyles – Memoirs of Odd Adventures, Strange Deliverances, &c. in the Captivity of John Gyles, Esq • Eliza Haywood – Adventures of Eovaai (later as The Unfortunate Princess) • Muhammad ibn Abd-al-Wahhab – Kitab at-tawhidt • Isaac Newton – Method of Fluxions • Elizabeth Singer Rowe – The History of Joseph • William Stukeley – Palaeographia Sacra • James Thomson – Britain • William Warburton – The Alliance Between Church and State (an answer to Benjamin Hoadly from the year before) • Leonard Welsted – The Scheme and Conduct of Providence • Diego de Torres Villarroel • Los desahuciados del mundo y de la gloria (The Deathly Illness of the World and of Glory) • Historia de historias Drama • Henry Carey – The Honest Yorkshireman • Colley Cibber – Papal Tyranny in the Reign of King John • Mr. Connolly – The Connoisseur • Elizabeth Cooper – The Nobleman • Henry Fielding – Pasquin • Aaron Hill – • Alzira • Zara • Samuel Johnson – All Alive and Merry • James Sterling – The Parricide Poems • Stephen Duck – Poems on Several Occasions • William Melmoth – Two Epistles of Horace Imitated • Alexander Pope – The Works of Alexander Pope vols iii–iv • Voltaire – Le Mondain ==Births==

• May 10 – George Steevens, English Shakespearean editor and hoaxer (died 1800) • June 25 – John Horne Tooke, English controversialist and cleric (died 1812) • October 27 – James Macpherson, Scottish writer, poet and politician (died 1796) • Unknown dates • Robert Jephson, Irish dramatist and politician (died 1803) • James Ridley (Sir Charles Morell), English novelist and story writer (died 1765) ==Deaths==

• January 8 – Jean Le Clerc, Swiss theologian (born 1657) • February 9 – Barnaby Bernard Lintot, English bookseller and publisher (born 1675) • March 18 – Jacob Tonson, English bookseller and publisher (born c. 1655) • April 30 – Johann Albert Fabricius, German scholar and bibliographer (born 1668) • July 16 – Thomas Yalden, English poet and translator (born 1670) ==References==