1809 IN LITERATURE

The year '1809 in literature' involved some significant events and new books.

Contents

Events

New books

New drama

Non-fiction

Births

Deaths

Awards

Events

★ Samuel Taylor Coleridge founds ''The Friend '' (periodical, through 1810).

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 - ''Diedrich Knickerbocker's History of New York''

★ 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 - ''Montevideo''

★ Sarah Wilkinson - ''The Mysterious Novice''

★ Henrietta Maria Young - ''The Novitiate de Rousillon''

New drama

★ Heinrich von Kleist - ''Die Hermannschlacht''

Non-fiction

★ Lord Byron - ''English Bards and Scotch Reviewers''

Births

★ January 19 - Edgar Allan Poe, writer (d. 1849)

★ March 6 - David Bates, American poet (d. 1870)

★ March 31 - Nikolai Gogol, writer (d. 1852)

★ March 31 - Edward Fitzgerald, translator of Omar Khayyám (d. 1883)

★ August 6 - Alfred Tennyson, poet (d. 1892)

★ August 29 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., poet (d. 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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