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[?] - François-René 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 Allen Poe, writer (+ 1849)
• March 31 - Nikolai Gogol, writer (+ 1852)
• August 6 - Alfred Tennyson, poet (+ 1892)
• August 29 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, poet (+ 1894)

Deaths

• June 8 - Thomas Paine, writer

Awards