1809 in literature

none 1809 literature poetry Events from the year 1809 in literature. Events thumb|Chawton Cottage thumb|Old Drury Lane Theatre on Fire by Abraham Pether, 1809 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.The Friend http://inamidst.com/coleridge/friend/ Coleridge Corner 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.Associate Professor Department of History Marc Baer Marc Baer Theatre and Disorder in Late Georgian London https://books.google.com/books?id=1B5aAAAAMAAJ 1992 Clarendon Press 978-0-19-811250-1 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. Uncertain dates 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.Walnut Street Theatre Historical Marker http://www.explorepahistory.com/hmarker.php?markerId=817 ExplorePAhistory.com 2011 2013-12-03 2009-07-18 https://web.archive.org/web/20090718224049/http://explorepahistory.com/hmarker.php?markerId=817 dead 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.John Dixon Hunt Peter Willis The Genius of the Place: The English Landscape Garden, 1620-1820 https://books.google.com/books?id=W8FHNsw2uEoC&pg=PA368 1988 MIT Press 978-0-262-58092-2 368 New books Fiction Thomas Campbell – Gertrude of Wyoming François-René de Chateaubriand – Les MartyrsFrançois-René de Chateaubriand Les martyrs, ou Le triomphe de la religion chrétienne: 2 https://books.google.com/books?id=jcY5AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA387 1809 Le Normant 387 Richard Cumberland – John de Lancaster Catherine Cuthbertson – Romance of the PyreneesHarvard University. Library English Literature https://books.google.com/books?id=bx3hAAAAMAAJ 1971 Harvard University Press 978-0-674-25663-7 100 Thomas Frognall Dibdin – Bibliomania; or Book-Madness: a bibliographical romance Maria Edgeworth – Ennui and Manœuvering E. M. Foster – The Corinna of England, and a Heroine in the Shade: A Modern RomanceAnnotated text Retrieved 31 July 2017. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – Elective Affinities (Die Wahlverwandtschaften) Stéphanie Félicité, Comtesse de Genlis – Alphonso Anne Grant – Memoirs of an American Lady Sarah Green – Tales of the Manor E. T. A. Hoffmann - Ritter Gluck Washington Irving – A History of New-York from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty, by Diedrich Knickerbocker Ivan Krylov – Basni (Fables) Catherine Manners – The Lords of Erith Mary Meeke – Laughton Priory Hannah More – Coelebs in Search of a Wife Mary Pilkington – The Mysterious Orphan Anna Maria Porter – Don SebastianAnna Maria Porter Don Sebastian, Or, The House of Braganza: An Historical Romance https://books.google.com/books?id=LgsGAAAAQAAJ 1838 A.K. Newman and Company Shikitei Sanba (式亭 三馬) – Ukiyoburo (publication begins) Louisa Stanhope – The Age We Live In Elizabeth Thomas – Monte Video Drama William Dimond – The Foundling of the Forest Richard Leigh – Grieving's a Folly Heinrich von Kleist – Die HermannschlachtGovind Sadashiv Ghurye Occidental Civilization https://books.google.com/books?id=DwsEAAAAYAAJ 1948 W. D. TenBroeck at International Book House 93 Adam Oehlenschläger – Palnatoke Poetry John Wilson Croker – The Battles of Talavera Non-fiction Jacob Boehme – De la Triple Vie de l'homme (translated into French by Louis Claude de Saint-Martin) Lord Byron – English Bards and Scotch Reviewers James Stanier Clarke and John McArthur – The Life of Lord Nelson Jean-Baptiste Lamarck – Philosophie Zoologique John Roberton – A Treatise on Medical Police, and on Diet, Regimen, &cA Treatise on Medical Police, and on Diet, Regimen, &c Births January 19 – Edgar Allan Poe, American poet, short story writer and literary critic (died 1849)John Henry Ingram Edgar Allan Poe: His Life, Letters, and Opinions https://books.google.com/books?id=x8dEAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA449 1891 Ward, Lock, Bowden 449 March 6 – David Bates, American poet (died 1870) March 31 Edward Fitzgerald, English poet (died 1883)Edward FitzGerald 1859-1883 https://books.google.com/books?id=_l4oAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA348 1894 Macmillan and Company 348 Nikolai Gogol, Russian dramatist, novelist and short story writer (died 1852)Nicholas Worrall Nikolai Gogol and Ivan Turgenev https://books.google.com/books?id=QEBdDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA2 4 November 1982 Macmillan International Higher Education 978-1-349-16917-7 2 June 3 – Margaret Gatty, English children's writer (died 1873)Joseph Jackson Howard Frederick Arthur Crisp Visitation of England and Wales https://books.google.com/books?id=T1xAAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA153 1894 Privately printed 153 June 13 – Heinrich Hoffmann, German author and children's poet (died 1894)Tom Burns Children's Literature Review: Excerpts from Reviews, Criticism, and Commentary on Books for Children and Young People https://books.google.com/books?id=TrlkAAAAMAAJ 27 April 2007 Cengage Gale 978-0-7876-8053-4 124 June 19 – Monckton Milnes, English man of letters, poet and politician (died 1885) August 6 – Alfred Tennyson, English poet (died 1892)Leslie Stephen Leslie Stephen Studies of a Biographer 2 1898 Duckworth and Co. London 196–240 Life of Tennyson August 29 – Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., American poet (died 1894)John R. Shook Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers https://books.google.com/books?id=Ijpj1tB3Qr0C&pg=PA1148 1 January 2005 A&C Black 978-1-84371-037-0 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)John McClintock Cyclopaedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature https://books.google.com/books?id=ws5hOxs5feIC&pg=PA780 1889 Harper & brothers 780 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)William Harding The History of Tiverton https://books.google.com/books?id=sQ45LXVF3_IC&pg=RA2-PA119 1845 2 March 23 – Thomas Holcroft, English dramatist and miscellanist (born 1745) March 25 – Anna Seward, English poet (born 1747)Sir John Benjamin Stone A history of Lichfield Cathedral. With a description of its architecture and monuments https://books.google.com/books?id=NhIIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA104 1870 104 June 8 – Thomas Paine, English political theorist (born 1737)Thomas Paine The Theological Works of Thomas Paine ...: The Whole Preceded by a Life of Paine https://books.google.com/books?id=fY_XAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA83 1879 Belfords, Clarke & Company 83 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 30em External links 1809 Books at Goodreads