Overview of the events of 1809 in literature
Events from the year 1809 in literature .
Events
Chawton Cottage February 24 – The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane , London, is destroyed by fire. When found drinking wine in the street while watching the conflagration, Richard Brinsley Sheridan , the proprietor, is reported as saying: "A man may surely be allowed to take a glass of wine by his own fireside."[ 1] The History of Cardenio March 1 – The literary and political periodical The Quarterly Review John Murray in London.[ 2] June 1 – Samuel Taylor Coleridge founds The Friend , a weekly periodical which runs for some 25 issues.[ 3] July 7 – Jane Austen settles with her sister and mother at Chawton Cottage in Chawton , near Alton, Hampshire and she resumes writing regularly.September 18 – A new Theatre Royal, Covent Garden , London, opens to replace the first, which burnt down in 1808.[ 4] Macbeth Old Price Riots , which last for 64 days, until the manager, John Philip Kemble , reverses the increases.Uncertain dates
New books
Fiction
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
January 19 – Edgar Allan Poe , American poet, short story writer and literary critic (died 1849 )[ 13] March 6 – David Bates , American poet (died 1870 )March 31
June 3 – Margaret Gatty , English children's writer (died 1873 )[ 16] June 13 – Heinrich Hoffmann , German author and children's poet (died 1894 )[ 17] June 19 – Monckton Milnes , English man of letters, poet and politician (died 1885 )August 6 – Alfred Tennyson , English poet (died 1892 )[ 18] August 29 – Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. , American poet (died 1894 )[ 19] September 7 – Wilhelmina Gravallius , Swedish novelist (died 1884 )November 27 – Fanny Kemble , English actress (died 1893 )unknown date – George Ayliffe Poole , English writer and cleric (died 1883 )[ 20]
Deaths
January 3 – Richard Shepherd , English theologian (born c. 1732)February – John Andrews , English historical writer and pamphleteer (born 1736 )
March 11 – Hannah Cowley , English dramatist and poet (born 1743 )[ 21] March 23 – Thomas Holcroft , English dramatist and miscellanist (born 1745 )March 25 – Anna Seward , English poet (born 1747 )[ 22] June 8 – Thomas Paine , English political theorist (born 1737 )[ 23] August 8 – Ueda Akinari , Japanese writer (born 1734 )August 29 – Lucy Barnes , American writer (born 1780 )October 19 – Jean-Henri Gourgaud , French actor (born 1746 )December 20 – Joseph Johnson , English publisher (born 1738 )December 21 – Tiberius Cavallo , Italian physicist and natural philosopher (born 1749 )December 23 – József Fabchich , Hungarian translator of Greek poetry and lexicographer (born 1753 )
References
^ The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations ^ Courier (London newspaper), 1 March 1809, "Published this day". The first issue, however, carries a title page date of February.^ "The Friend" . Coleridge Corner . Retrieved 2013-06-05 .^ Associate Professor Department of History Marc Baer; Marc Baer (1992). Theatre and Disorder in Late Georgian London ISBN 978-0-19-811250-1 ^ "Walnut Street Theatre Historical Marker" . ExplorePAhistory.com . 2011. Retrieved 2013-12-03 .^ John Dixon Hunt; Peter Willis (1988). The Genius of the Place: The English Landscape Garden, 1620-1820 ISBN 978-0-262-58092-2 ^ François-René de Chateaubriand (1809). Les martyrs, ou Le triomphe de la religion chrétienne: 2 ^ Harvard University. Library (1971). English Literature ISBN 978-0-674-25663-7 ^ Annotated text Retrieved 31 July 2017.
^ Anna Maria Porter (1838). Don Sebastian, Or, The House of Braganza: An Historical Romance ^ Govind Sadashiv Ghurye (1948). Occidental Civilization ^ A Treatise on Medical Police, and on Diet, Regimen, &c ^ John Henry Ingram (1891). Edgar Allan Poe: His Life, Letters, and Opinions ^ Edward FitzGerald (1894). 1859-1883 ^ Nicholas Worrall (4 November 1982). Nikolai Gogol and Ivan Turgenev ISBN 978-1-349-16917-7 ^ Joseph Jackson Howard; Frederick Arthur Crisp (1894). Visitation of England and Wales ^ Tom Burns (27 April 2007). Children's Literature Review: Excerpts from Reviews, Criticism, and Commentary on Books for Children and Young People ISBN 978-0-7876-8053-4 ^ Leslie, Stephen (1898). "Life of Tennyson" Studies of a Biographer . Vol. 2. London: Duckworth and Co. pp. 196– 240.^ John R. Shook (1 January 2005). Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers ISBN 978-1-84371-037-0 ^ John McClintock (1889). Cyclopaedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature ^ William Harding (1845). The History of Tiverton ^ Sir John Benjamin Stone (1870). A history of Lichfield Cathedral. With a description of its architecture and monuments ^ Thomas Paine (1879). The Theological Works of Thomas Paine ...: The Whole Preceded by a Life of Paine
