1809 in literature
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The year 1809 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
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Events
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge founds The Friend (periodical, through 1810).
- On February 24, the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane is destroyed by fire.
- On September 18, the new Royal Opera House in Covent Garden opens, rebuilt after the fire of the previous year.
New books
- Thomas Campbell - Gertrude of Wyoming
- François-René de Chateaubriand - The Martyrs
- Catherine Cuthbertson - Romance of the Pyrenees
- Maria Edgeworth - Ennui and Manoeuvering
- Sophia Frances - Angelo Guicciardini
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Elective Affinities
- Stéphanie Félicité, Comtesse de Genlis - Alphonso
- Anne Grant - Memoirs of an American Lady
- Sarah Green - Tales of the Manor
- J. P. Hunt - The Iron Mask
- Washington Irving - A History of New-York from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty, by Diedrich Knickerbocker
- Ivan Kriloff - Fables
- Catherine Manners - The Lords of Erith
- Mary Meeke - Laughton Priory
- Hannah More - Coelebs in Search of a Wife
- Mary Pilkington - The Mysterious Orphan
- Anna Maria Porter - Don Sebastian
- Richard Sicklemore - Osrick
- Louisa Stanhope - The Age We Live In
- Elizabeth Thomas - Monte Video
- Sarah Wilkinson - The Mysterious Novice
- Henrietta Maria Young - The Novitiate de Roussillon
New drama
- Heinrich von Kleist - Die Hermannschlacht
Non-fiction
- Lord Byron - English Bards and Scotch Reviewers
- John Roberton - A Treatise on Medical Police, and on Diet, Regimen, &c
Births
- January 19 - Edgar Allan Poe, writer (died 1849)
- March 6 - David Bates, American poet (died 1870)
- March 31 - Nikolai Gogol, writer (died 1852)
- March 31 - Edward Fitzgerald, translator of Omar Khayyám (died 1883)
- June 13 - Heinrich Hoffmann, German writer, author of Struwwelpeter (died 1894)
- August 6 - Alfred Tennyson, poet (died 1892)
- August 29 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., poet (died 1894)
Deaths
- March 11 - Hannah Cowley, dramatist and poet
- March 25 - Anna Seward, the "Swan of Lichfield"
- June 8 - Thomas Paine, writer
Awards
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