1809 in literature

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The year 1809 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

Samuel Taylor Coleridge founds The Friend (periodical, through 1810).
On February 24, the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane is destroyed by fire.
On September 18, the new Royal Opera House in Covent Garden opens, rebuilt after the fire of the previous year.

Thomas Campbell - Gertrude of Wyoming
François-René de Chateaubriand - The Martyrs
Catherine Cuthbertson - Romance of the Pyrenees
Maria Edgeworth - Ennui and Manoeuvering
Sophia Frances - Angelo Guicciardini
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Elective Affinities
Stéphanie Félicité, Comtesse de Genlis - Alphonso
Anne Grant - Memoirs of an American Lady
Sarah Green - Tales of the Manor
J. P. Hunt - The Iron Mask
Washington Irving - A History of New-York from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty, by Diedrich Knickerbocker
Ivan Kriloff - 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 Sebastian
Richard Sicklemore - Osrick
Louisa Stanhope - The Age We Live In
Elizabeth Thomas - Montevideo
Sarah Wilkinson - The Mysterious Novice
Henrietta Maria Young - The Novitiate de Rousillon