Calendar of Literary Facts
1809
- William Gifford and John Murray found the Tory Quarterly Review as an alternative to the Whiggish Edinburgh Review
- Jean-Baptiste Lamarck publishes an early work on evolution, Philsophie zoologique
- William Cullen Bryant publishes The Embargo
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson is born (August 6)
- Timothy Shay Arthur is born (June 6)
- Thomas Paine dies (June 8)
- Edgar Allan Poe is born (January 19)
- Nikolai Gogol is born (March 31)
