1809 In Literature

Events

New books

• The Age We Live In - Louisa Stanhope
• Angelo Guicciardini - Sophia Frances
• Diedrich Knickerbocker's History of New York - Washington Irving
• Don Sebastian - Anna Maria Porter
• English Bards and Scotch Reviewers - Lord Byron
• Ennui and Manoeuvering - Maria Edgeworth
• The Friend (periodical, through 1810) - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• The Iron Mask - J. P. Hunt
• Laughton Priory - Mary Meeke
• The Lords of Erith - Catherine Manners
• The Martyrs - Franois-Ren de Chateaubriand
• Memoirs of an American Lady - Anne Grant
• Monte Video - Elizabeth Thomas
• The Mysterious Novice - Sarah Wilkinson
• The Mysterious Orphan - Mary Pilkington
• The Novitiate de Rousillon - Henrietta Maria Young
• Osrick - Richard Sicklemore
• Romance of the Pyrenees - Catherine Cuthbertson
• Tales of the Manor - Sarah Green

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 Khayyam (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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