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1809 in literature
See also: 1808 in literature, other events of 1809, 1810 in literature, list of years in literature.
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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 Allan Poe, writer (+ 1849)
- March 6 - David Bates, American poet
- March 31 - Nikolai Gogol, writer (+ 1852)
- March 31 - Edward Fitzgerald, translator of Omar Khayyam
- August 6 - Alfred Tennyson, poet (+ 1892)
- August 29 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., poet (+ 1894)
Deaths
- June 8 - Thomas Paine, writer
Awards
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