1791 in literature

See also: 1790 in literature, other events of 1791, 1792 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

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

New books

• Life of Johnson – James Boswell
• A Simple Story – Elizabeth Inchbald
• The Rights of Man – Thomas Paine
• Celestina – Charlotte Turner Smith

Births

• March 15 – Charles Knight, publisher and author

Deaths

• January 11 – William Williams Pantycelyn, hymn-writer and poet
• March 2 – John Wesley

Awards