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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