1715 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1715.

Video 1715 in literature

c. August - Nicholas Rowe becomes Poet Laureate of Great Britain.
First record of the actress and writer Eliza Haywood, performing in Thomas Shadwell's Shakespeare adaptation, Timon of Athens; or, The Man-Hater at the Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin.

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
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)

Henry Carey - The Contrivances
Susanna Centlivre - The Gotham Election (unacted because of political content)
Chikamatsu Monzaemon - The Battles of Coxinga (?????, Kokusen'ya Kassen)
Charles Rivière Dufresny - La Coquette de village
John Gay, Alexander Pope, and John Arbuthnot - What d'ye call it?
Benjamin Griffin
- Injured Virtue; or, The Virgin Martyr
- Love in a Sack
Charles Molloy - The Perplex'd Couple
Nicholas Rowe -The Tragedy of Lady Jane Grey
Lewis Theobald - The Perfidious Brother (plagiarized)
John Vanbrugh - The Country House

Charles Cotton - The Genuine Works of Charles Cotton
Alexander Pope
- The Temple of Fame (based on Chaucer)
- The Iliad of Homer vol. i.
Thomas Tickell - The First Book of Homer's Iliad
Isaac Watts
- Divine Songs
- A Guide to Prayer

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January 14 (baptised) - Frances Vane, Viscountess Vane (Lady Fanny), English memoirist (died 1788)
January 26 or February 26 - Claude Adrien Helvétius, French philosophical writer (died 1771)
September 30 - Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, French philosophical writer (died 1780)
October 1 - Richard Jago, English poet (died 1781)
Probable year of birth
- John Hawkesworth, English writer and editor (died 1773)
- Alexander Russell, Scottish physician and naturalist (died 1768)

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Walter Scott's novel Rob Roy (1817) climaxes around the time of the Jacobite rising of 1715.

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