1809 in literature

1809 in literature

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

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 - "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"
*John Roberton - " [http://books.google.com/books?id=1ZEjmy8N_CsC&dq=john+roberton+medical+police A Treatise on Medical Police, and on Diet, Regimen, &c] "

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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