See also: 1808 in literature, other events of 1809, 1810 in literature, list of years in literature. See also: 1807 in literature, other events of 1808, 1809 in literature, list of years in literature. ... 1809 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... See also: 1809 in literature, other events of 1810, 1811 in literature, list of years in literature. ... This page indexes the individual year in literature pages. ...

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

Washington Irving Washington Irving (April 3, 1783 – November 28, 1859) was an American author of the early 19th century. ... Anna Maria Porter (1780 - 1832) and her sister, Jane (1776 - 1850), novelists, were the daughter of an Irish army surgeon, and sisters of Sir Robert Ker Porter, the painter and traveller. ... Lord Byron, English poet Lord Byron (1803), as painted by Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, (January 22, 1788 – April 19, 1824) was the most widely read English language poet of his day. ... Maria Edgeworth (January 1, 1767-May 22, 1849) was an Irish novelist. ... The Friend is a magazine for Quakers in Britain. ... Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet, 1795 Samuel Taylor Coleridge (October 21, 1772 – July 25, 1834) was an English poet, critic, and philosopher who was, along with his friend William Wordsworth, one of the founders of the Romantic Movement in England and as one of the Lake Poets. ... The Man in the Iron Mask was a prisoner believed to have been held in the Bastille prison from an unknown date to his death on November 19, 1703. ... Mary Meeke was a prolific author of around 30 novels during the early 19th century, and is believed to have died in October 1816. ... François-René de Chateaubriand, painting by Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson, beginning of 19th century. ... Anne Grant (née Mvicar) (February 21, 1755 - November 7, 1838), was a Scottish poet and author. ...

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 Khayyám (d. 1883)
• August 6 - Alfred Tennyson, poet (d. 1892)
• August 29 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., poet (d. 1894)

January 19 is the 19th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... This daguerreotype of Poe was taken less than a year before his death at the age of 40. ... 1849 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... March 6 is the 65th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (66th in Leap years). ... David Bates (March 6, 1809 - January 25, 1870) was an American poet. ... 1870 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... March 31 is the 90th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (91st in Leap years), with 275 days remaining, as the final day of March. ... Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol (Russian: ) (March 31, 1809 - March 4, 1852) was a Ukrainian-born Russian writer. ... 1852 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Edward Marlborough FitzGerald (March 31, 1809–June 14, 1883) was an English writer, best known as the poet of the English translation of Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. ... Tomb of Omar Khayyám, Neishapur, Iran. ... 1883 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... August 6 is the 218th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (219th in leap years), with 147 days remaining. ... The Lord Tennyson British poet Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (August 6, 1809 – October 6, 1892) was one of the most popular English poets of his time. ... 1892 was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... August 29 is the 241st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (242nd in leap years), with 124 days remaining. ... Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. ... 1894 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...

Deaths

• March 11 - Hannah Cowley, dramatist and poet
• March 25 - Anna Seward, the "Swan of Lichfield"
• June 8 - Thomas Paine, writer

11 March is the 70th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (71st in Leap year). ... Hannah Cowley (1743 - March 11, 1809) was an English dramatist and poet. ... March 25 is the 84th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (85th in leap years). ... Anna Seward (December 12, 1747 _ March 25, 1809) was an English writer, often called the Swan of Lichfield. ... June 8 is the 159th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (160th in leap years), with 206 days remaining. ... Thomas Paine Thomas Paine (January 29, 1737–June 8, 1809), intellectual, scholar, and idealist, is widely recognized as one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. ...

Awards