Sophie von La Roche's Geschichte des Fräuleins von Sternheim: Von einer Freundin derselben aus Original-Papieren und andern zuverläßigen Quellen gezogen ("History of Lady von Sternheim"), completed at
Bönnigheim and published this year in
Leipzig edited by the author's cousin
Christoph Wieland in 2 volumes, is, within the tradition of
German literature, the first significant novel by a woman,[2] the first
epistolary novel and the first "sentimental" novel.
Matthias Claudius begins editing and publishing the newspaper Der Wandsbecker Bothe.[3]