1796 in literature
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See also: 1795 in literature, other events of 1796, 1797 in literature, list of years in literature.
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[edit] Events
[edit] New books
- Robert Bage - Hermsprong or Man as he is not
- Elizabeth Bonhôte - Bungay Castle
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge - The Watchman (periodical)
- Denis Diderot - Jacques le fataliste et son maître
- Mary Hays - Memoirs of Emma Courtney
- Matthew Lewis - The Monk
- Jane Purbeck - Matilda and Elizabeth
[edit] New drama
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Egmont
- Mary Darby Robinson - The Sicilian Lover
[edit] Non-fiction
- Edmund Burke - A Letter to a Noble Lord
- Fanny Burney - Camilla
- Edward Gibbon - Memoirs of My Life and Writings
[edit] Births
- January 4 - Henry George Bohn, publisher
- September 19 - Hartley Coleridge
- July 15 - Thomas Bulfinch, American author
[edit] Deaths
- February 17 - James Macpherson, poet
- May 6 - Adolf Freiherr Knigge, writer on etiquette
- July 21 - Robert Burns
- October 7 - Thomas Reid, philosopher
