 the year 1809 in literature involved some significant events and new books. ==events== *february 24 - the theatre royal, drury lane, london, is destroyed by fire. on being encountered 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. *july 7 - jane austen settles with her sister and mother at chawton cottage in chawton, near alton, hampshire, where she is able to resume writing regularly. *september 18 - a new theatre royal, covent garden, london opens to replace the first burnt down in 1808, with a performance of macbeth. an increase in ticket prices causes the old price riots which last for 64 days until the manager, john philip kemble, reverses the price rise. *the walnut street theatre in philadelphia is established as "the new circus" by the circus of pepin and breschard. it is the oldest continuously operating theatre in the english-speaking world and the oldest in the united states. *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. ==new books== *thomas campbell - gertrude of wyoming *franÃ§ois-renÃ© de chateaubriand - the martyrs *catherine cuthbertson - romance of the pyrenees *thomas frognall dibdin - bibliomania; or book-madness: a bibliographical romance *maria edgeworth - ennui and manoeuvering *sophia frances - angelo guicciardini *johann wolfgang von goethe - elective affinities *[[stÃ©phanie fÃ©licitÃ© ducrest de st-albin, comtesse de genlis
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