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1810 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1810.

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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Stockdale Original Poetry by Victor and Cazire co-written with his sister Elizabeth before he came up to Oxford, but withdrawn due to plagiarism of one poem; and in November he and his friend Thomas Jefferson Hogg publish the burlesque Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson; Being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.
  • 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.

    • Fiction

  • Catherine Cuthbertson – The Forest of Montalbano
  • 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
  • Regina Marie Roche
  • Convent of St. Ildefonso
  • The Houses of Osma and Almeria
  • 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

    • Drama

  • Joanna Baillie – Family Legend
  • James Sheridan Knowles – Leo; or, The Gipsy
  • Adam Oehlenschläger – Axel og Valborg

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

    • Births

  • February 10 – Giulietta Pezzi, Italian novelist, journalist, and poet (died 1878)
  • 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)
  • 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)

    • References

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