1810 in literature
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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1810.
Events
- February - Eccentric English amateur actor Robert Coates debuts in his favourite role, Romeo, at the Theatre Royal, Bath.
- April 10 - Percy Bysshe Shelley matriculates at University College, Oxford. His atheistic Gothic novella Zastrozzi: A Romance, written while he was still a schoolboy at Eton, is published this year under his initials in London, and its successor St. Irvyne; or, The Rosicrucian: A Romance is published as "By a Gentleman of the University of Oxford" in December (dated 1811) in London by J. J. Stockdale. In September, Shelley publishes through Stockdale Original Poetry by Victor and Cazire co-written with his sister Elizabeth before he came up to Oxford, but withdrawn due to plagiarism of one poem; and in November he and his friend Thomas Jefferson Hogg publish the burlesque Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson; Being Poems found amongst the Papers of that Noted Female who attempted the Life of the King in 1786 "Edited by John Fitzvictor" in Oxford.[1]
- The collection The British Novelists with an introductory essay and prefaces by Anna Laetitia Barbauld is published in 50 volumes in London by F. C. & J. Rivington.
New books
- Catherine Cuthbertson - The Forest of Montalbano
- Peter Middleton Darling - The Romance of the Highlands
- John English - The Grey Friar and the Black Spirit of the Wye
- Sarah Green - The Festival of St. Jago
- Lady Mary Hamilton - The Duc de Popoli
- Ann Hatton - Cambrian Pictures
- Anthony Frederick Holstein - The Assassin of St. Glenroy
- Caroline Horwood - The Castle of Vivaldi
- Mary Houghton - The Mysteries of the Forest
- Robert Huish - The Mysteries of Ferney Castle
- Emma Parker - A Soldier’s Offspring
- Jane Porter - The Scottish Chiefs
- Regina Marie Roche
- Percy Bysshe Shelley - Zastrozzi
- Anne Louise Germaine de Stael - De l'Allemagne
- Louisa Stanhope
- Catherine George Ward - The Daughter of St Omar
- Jane West - The Refusal
- Sarah Wilkinson
New drama
- Joanna Baillie - Family Legend
- James Sheridan Knowles - Leo; or, The Gipsy
- Adam Oehlenschläger - Axel og Valborg
- Sarah Richardson - Ethelred: A Legendary Tragic Drama
Poetry
- George Crabbe - The Borough
- Mary Russell Mitford - Poems
- Walter Scott - The Lady of the Lake
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
- with Elizabeth Shelley - Original Poetry by Victor and Cazire
- with Thomas Jefferson Hogg - Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson
Non-fiction
- Lucy Aikin - Epistles on Women, Exemplifying their Character and Condition in Various Ages and Nations, with Miscellaneous Poems
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Zur Farbenlehre (Theory of Colours)
- William Wordsworth - Guide to the Lakes
Births
- May 10 – E. Cobham Brewer, English lexicographer (died 1897)
- May 11 – Caroline Fox, English diarist (died 1870)
- May 23 – Margaret Fuller American feminist writer (died 1850)
- August 6 – William Ticknor, American publisher (died 1864)
- August 31 – František Doucha, Czech writer and translator (died 1884)
- September 22 – John Brown, Scottish physician and essayist (died 1882)
- September 29 – Elizabeth Gaskell, English novelist (died 1865)
- December 11 – Alfred de Musset, French poet (died 1857)
Deaths
- February 9 – Richard Chandler, English antiquary (born 1738)
- February 22 – Charles Brockden Brown, American novelist (tuberculosis, born 1771)
- March 14 – Ludwig Timotheus Spittler, German historian (born 1752)
- April 3 – Twm o'r Nant, Welsh-language dramatist and poet (born 1739)
- May 1 – Christoph Meiners, German philosopher (born 1747)
- May 17 – Robert Tannahill, Scottish poet (born 1774)
- December 15 – Sarah Trimmer, English children's writer and critic (born 1741)
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