1796 in literature

Table of contents

1 Events 2 New Books 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Awards

Events

• The Watchman (periodical) - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• A Letter to a Noble Lord - Edmund Burke
• Camilla - Fanny Burney
• Memoirs of My Life and Writings - Edward Gibbon

• January 4 - Henry George Bohn, publisher
• September 19 - Hartley Coleridge
• July 15 - Thomas Bulfinch, American author

• July 21 - Robert Burns