1791 in literature

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Contents 1 Events 2 New books 3 Non-fiction 4 Births 5 Deaths 6 Awards

[edit] Events

• Samuel Taylor Coleridge begins his course at Jesus College, Cambridge.

[edit] New books

• Elizabeth Inchbald - A Simple Story
• Susanna Rowson - Charlotte, a Tale of Truth
• Marquis de Sade - Justine ou Les Malheurs de la vertu
• Charlotte Turner Smith - Celestina

[edit] Non-fiction

• James Boswell - Life of Johnson
• Olympe de Gouges - Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen
• Thomas Paine - The Rights of Man

[edit] Births

• March 15 - Charles Knight, publisher and author

[edit] Deaths

• January 11 - William Williams Pantycelyn, hymn-writer and poet
• March 2 - John Wesley, preacher and writer
• April 19 - Richard Price, philosopher
• date unknown - Francis Grose, antiquary and lexicographer

[edit] Awards