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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 putative manuscript of
The History of Cardenio may have been lost in the blaze.
March 1 – The literary and political periodical
The Quarterly Review is first published by
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] The first play performed is
Macbeth . Raised ticket prices cause the
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 (1999). Oxford University Press.
^ 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 . Clarendon Press. p. 18.
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 . MIT Press. p. 368.
ISBN
978-0-262-58092-2 .
^ François-René de Chateaubriand (1809).
Les martyrs, ou Le triomphe de la religion chrétienne: 2 . Le Normant. p. 387.
^ Harvard University. Library (1971).
English Literature . Harvard University Press. p. 100.
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 . A.K. Newman and Company.
^ Govind Sadashiv Ghurye (1948).
Occidental Civilization . W. D. TenBroeck at International Book House. p. 93.
^
A Treatise on Medical Police, and on Diet, Regimen, &c
^ John Henry Ingram (1891).
Edgar Allan Poe: His Life, Letters, and Opinions . Ward, Lock, Bowden. p. 449.
^ Edward FitzGerald (1894).
1859-1883 . Macmillan and Company. p. 348.
^ Nicholas Worrall (4 November 1982).
Nikolai Gogol and Ivan Turgenev . Macmillan International Higher Education. p. 2.
ISBN
978-1-349-16917-7 .
^ Joseph Jackson Howard; Frederick Arthur Crisp (1894).
Visitation of England and Wales . Privately printed. p. 153.
^ Tom Burns (27 April 2007).
Children's Literature Review: Excerpts from Reviews, Criticism, and Commentary on Books for Children and Young People . Cengage Gale. p. 124.
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 . A&C Black. p. 1148.
ISBN
978-1-84371-037-0 .
^ John McClintock (1889).
Cyclopaedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature . Harper & brothers. p. 780.
^ William Harding (1845).
The History of Tiverton . p. 2.
^ Sir John Benjamin Stone (1870).
A history of Lichfield Cathedral. With a description of its architecture and monuments . p. 104.
^ Thomas Paine (1879).
The Theological Works of Thomas Paine ...: The Whole Preceded by a Life of Paine . Belfords, Clarke & Company. p. 83.