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EVENTS

Ann Ward marries William Radcliffe, gaining the surname under which she will become known as a writer of Gothic novels.

NEW BOOKS

Volumes IV, V, and VI of '' The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire '' - Edward Gibbon

''Letters to Archdeacon Travis'' by Richard Porson

''Paul et Virginie'' by Bernardin De Saint-Pierre

''Mary: a fiction'' by Mary Wollstonecraft

BIRTHS

January 22 - George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron , English poet (+ 1824)

September 22 - Theodore Edward Hook , English author

December 6 - Richard Harris Barham , author of '' The Ingoldsby Legends ''

DEATHS