1695 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1695.

Events

• April – The Parliament of England decides not to renew the Licensing Order of 1643, thus effectively abolishing most press censorship.
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• After twelve years of de facto theatrical monopoly in London, the senior actors of the mismanaged United Company break away to form a rival cooperative company led by Thomas Betterton, Elizabeth Barry and Anne Bracegirdle. This makes a brilliant start with the première on April 30 of William Congreve's comedy Love for Love, at the New Theatre, Lincoln's Inn Fields.
• Antoine Le Maistre and his brother Louis-Isaac Lemaistre de Sacy complete their translation of the Catholic Bible into French (the Bible de Port-Royal).
• Wren Library, Cambridge, the library of Trinity College, designed by Christopher Wren, is completed.

New books

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)