1809 in literature
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See also: 1808 in literature, other events of 1809, 1810 in literature, list of years in literature.
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[edit] Events
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge founds The Friend (periodical, through 1810).
[edit] 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
[edit] New drama
- Heinrich von Kleist - Die Hermannschlacht
[edit] Non-fiction
[edit] 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)
[edit] Deaths
- March 11 - Hannah Cowley, dramatist and poet
- March 25 - Anna Seward, the "Swan of Lichfield"
- June 8 - Thomas Paine, writer
