1810 in literature

Overview of the events of 1810 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1810.

Events

February – The eccentric English amateur actor Robert Coates makes his début in a 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 still a schoolboy at Eton, is published this year under his initials in London. 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Stockdale Original Poetry by Victor and Cazire, co-written with his sister Elizabeth before he came up to Oxford, but withdrawn due to plagiarism of one poem. In November he and a 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]
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- Germaine de Staël's study of Germany De l'Allemagne is published in Paris but suppressed by order of Napoleon.
- A collection, The British Novelists, with an introductory essay and prefaces by Anna Laetitia Barbauld, appears in 50 volumes in London from F. C. & J. Rivington.

Johann August Apel and Friedrich Laun – Gespensterbuch
Catherine Cuthbertson – The Forest of Montalbano^[2]
Sarah Green – The Festival of St. Jago
Lady Mary Hamilton – The Duc de Popoli
Ann Hatton – Cambrian Pictures
Robert Huish – The Mysteries of Ferney Castle
Emma Parker – A Soldier's Offspring
Jane Porter – The Scottish Chiefs
Jan Potocki – The Manuscript Found in Saragossa (Manuscrit trouvé à Saragosse, 2nd version)
Regina Marie Roche – The Houses of Osma and Almeria; or, Convent of St. Ildefonso: a Tale
Percy Bysshe Shelley – Zastrozzi
Louisa Stanhope
- Di Montranzo
- The Novice of Corpus Domini
Catherine George Ward – The Daughter of St Omar
Jane West – The Refusal

Joanna Baillie – The Family Legend
James Sheridan Knowles – Leo; or, The Gipsy
Adam Oehlenschläger – Axel og Valborg
Heinrich von Kleist – The Prince of Homburg (Prinz Friedrich von Homburg oder die Schlacht bei Fehrbellin, written)

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)
Mirza Abu Taleb Khan (tr. Charles Stewart) – Travels of Mirza Abu Taleb Khan in Asia, Africa and Europe
Germaine de Staël – De l'Allemagne
William Wordsworth – Guide to the Lakes

February 10 – Giulietta Pezzi, Italian novelist, journalist, and poet (died 1878)
March 10 – Samuel Ferguson, Northern Irish lawyer, poet and artist (died 1886)^[3]
March 28 – Alexandre Herculano, Portuguese writer and historian (died 1877)^[4]
April 8 – Hégésippe Moreau, French writer and poet (died 1838)
May 10 – E. Cobham Brewer, English lexicographer (died 1897)
May 11 – Caroline Fox, English diarist (died 1870)
May 23 – Margaret Fuller American feminist writer (drowned 1850)^[5]
August 6 – William Ticknor, American publisher (died 1864)
August 15 – Louise Colet, French poet (died 1876)^[6]
August 29 – Juan Bautista Alberdi, Argentinian politician and writer (died 1884)
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)

February 9 – Richard Chandler, English antiquary (born 1738)
February 22 – Charles Brockden Brown, American novelist (born 1771; tuberculosis)^[7]
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)^[8]
May 17 – Robert Tannahill, Scottish poet (born 1774)
May 26 – Catharina Heybeek, Dutch journalist, feminist and editor (born 1764)
December 15 – Sarah Trimmer, English children's writer and critic (born 1741)

^ O'Neill, Michael (2004). "Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792–1822)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/25312. Retrieved 2015-11-13. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ Forest of Montalbano. OCLC 6715887. Retrieved 6 August 2022 – via WorldCat.
^ Boylan, Henry (1998). A Dictionary of Irish Biography, 3rd Edition. Dublin: Gill and MacMillan. p. 129. ISBN 978-0-7171-2945-4.
^ Ford, Jeremiah Denis Mathias (1910). "Alejandro Herculano de Carvalho e Araujo" . In Herbermann, Charles (ed.). Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 7. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
^ Nelson, Randy F. The Almanac of American Letters. Los Altos, California: William Kaufmann, Inc., 1981: 42. ISBN 0-86576-008-X
^ "Louise Colet | French writer | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 26 June 2022.
^ Doris Devine Fanelli; Karie Diethorn (2001). History of the Portrait Collection, Independence National Historical Park. American Philosophical Society. pp. 98–. ISBN 978-0-87169-242-9.
^ The Encyclopaedia Britannica: Or Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature. Black. 1857. p. 473.