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Events from the year 1809 in literature.

Events

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  • 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."The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (1999). Oxford University Press. 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.Courier (London newspaper), 1 March 1809, "Published this day". The first issue, however, carries a title page date of February.
  • June 1 – Samuel Taylor Coleridge founds The Friend, a weekly periodical which runs for some 25 issues.{{Cite web |title=The Friend|url=http://inamidst.com/coleridge/friend/ |work=Coleridge Corner |accessdate=2013-06-05}}
  • 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.{{cite book|author1=Associate Professor Department of History Marc Baer|author2=Marc Baer|title=Theatre and Disorder in Late Georgian London|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1B5aAAAAMAAJ|year=1992|publisher=Clarendon Press|isbn=978-0-19-811250-1|page=18}} 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.
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  • The Walnut Street Theatre, Philadelphia, United States, is opened as "The New Circus" by the Circus of Pepin and Breschard. It becomes the oldest continually operating playhouse in the English-speaking world and the oldest in the United States.{{Cite web |title=Walnut Street Theatre Historical Marker |url=http://www.explorepahistory.com/hmarker.php?markerId=817 |work=ExplorePAhistory.com |year=2011 |accessdate=2013-12-03}}
  • William Combe begins publication of the verse Tour of Dr Syntax in search of the Picturesque in Ackermann's Political Magazine (London), illustrated by Thomas Rowlandson, satirising William Gilpin's views on the picturesque.{{cite book|author1=John Dixon Hunt|author2=Peter Willis|title=The Genius of the Place: The English Landscape Garden, 1620-1820|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W8FHNsw2uEoC&pg=PA368|year=1988|publisher=MIT Press|isbn=978-0-262-58092-2|pages=368}}

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Births

  • January 19 – Edgar Allan Poe, American poet, short story writer and literary critic (died 1849){{cite book|author=John Henry Ingram|title=Edgar Allan Poe: His Life, Letters, and Opinions|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x8dEAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA449|year=1891|publisher=Ward, Lock, Bowden|pages=449}}
  • March 6 – David Bates, American poet (died 1870)
  • March 31
  • Edward Fitzgerald, English poet (died 1883){{cite book|author=Edward FitzGerald|title=1859-1883|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_l4oAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA348|year=1894|publisher=Macmillan and Company|pages=348}}
  • Nikolai Gogol, Russian dramatist, novelist and short story writer (died 1852){{cite book|author=Nicholas Worrall|title=Nikolai Gogol and Ivan Turgenev|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QEBdDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA2|date=4 November 1982|publisher=Macmillan International Higher Education|isbn=978-1-349-16917-7|pages=2}}
  • June 3 – Margaret Gatty, English children's writer (died 1873){{cite book|author1=Joseph Jackson Howard|author2=Frederick Arthur Crisp|title=Visitation of England and Wales|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T1xAAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA153|year=1894|publisher=Privately printed|pages=153}}
  • June 13 – Heinrich Hoffmann, German author and children's poet (died 1894){{cite book|author=Tom Burns|title=Children's Literature Review: Excerpts from Reviews, Criticism, and Commentary on Books for Children and Young People|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TrlkAAAAMAAJ|date=27 April 2007|publisher=Cengage Gale|isbn=978-0-7876-8053-4|page=124}}
  • June 19 – Monckton Milnes, English man of letters, poet and politician (died 1885)
  • August 6 – Alfred Tennyson, English poet (died 1892){{cite book|last=Leslie|first=Stephen|author-link=Leslie Stephen|title=Studies of a Biographer|volume=2|year=1898|publisher=Duckworth and Co.|location=London|pages=196–240|chapter=Life of Tennyson}}
  • August 29 – Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., American poet (died 1894){{cite book|author=John R. Shook|title=Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ijpj1tB3Qr0C&pg=PA1148|date=1 January 2005|publisher=A&C Black|isbn=978-1-84371-037-0|pages=1148}}
  • 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){{cite book|author=John McClintock|title=Cyclopaedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ws5hOxs5feIC&pg=PA780|year=1889|publisher=Harper & brothers|pages=780}}

Deaths

References

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