1810 in literature

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

Events

February â The eccentric English amateur actor Robert Coates makes his dÃ©but in a favourite role: Romeo, at the Theatre Royal, Bath.
April 10 â 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Stockdale Original Poetry by Victor and Cazire, co-written with his sister Elizabeth before he came up to Oxford, but withdrawn due to plagiarism of one poem.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 StaÃ«l'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 â Gespensterbuch
Catherine Cuthbertson â The Forest of Montalbano^[2]
Sarah Green â The Festival of St. Jago
Lady Mary Hamilton â The Duc de Popoli
Ann Hatton â Cambrian Pictures
Robert Huish â The Mysteries of Ferney Castle
Emma Parker â A Soldier's Offspring
Jane Porter â The Scottish Chiefs
Jan Potocki â The Manuscript Found in Saragossa (Manuscrit trouvÃ© Ã Saragosse, 2nd version)
Regina Marie Roche â The Houses of Osma and Almeria; or, Convent of St. Ildefonso: a Tale
Percy Bysshe Shelley â Zastrozzi
Louisa Stanhope
- Di Montranzo
- The Novice of Corpus Domini
Catherine George Ward â The Daughter of St Omar
Heinrich von Kleist â "Das Bettelweib von Locarno" (The Beggarwoman of Locarno, short story)
Jane West â The Refusal

Lucy Aikin â Epistles on Women, Exemplifying their Character and Condition in Various Ages and Nations, with Miscellaneous Poems
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe â Zur Farbenlehre (Theory of Colours)
Mirza Abu Taleb Khan (tr. Charles Stewart) â Travels of Mirza Abu Taleb Khan in Asia, Africa and Europe
Germaine de StaÃ«l â De l'Allemagne
William Wordsworth â Guide to the Lakes

February 10 â Giulietta Pezzi, Italian novelist, journalist, and poet (died 1878)
March 10 â Samuel Ferguson, Northern Irish lawyer, poet and artist (died 1886)^[3]
March 28 â Alexandre Herculano, Portuguese writer and historian (died 1877)^[4]
May 10 â E. Cobham Brewer, English lexicographer (died 1897)
May 11 â Caroline Fox, English diarist (died 1870)
May 23 â Margaret Fuller American feminist writer (drowned 1850)^[5]
August 6 â William Ticknor, American publisher (died 1864)
August 15 â Louise Colet, French poet (died 1876)^[6]
August 29 â Juan Bautista Alberdi, Argentinian politician and writer (died 1884)^[7]
August 31 â FrantiÅ¡ek Doucha, Czech writer and translator (died 1884)
September 22 â John Brown, Scottish physician and essayist (died 1882)
September 29 â Elizabeth Gaskell, English novelist (died 1865)^[8]
December 11 â Alfred de Musset, French poet (died 1857)^[9]

February 9 â Richard Chandler, English antiquary (born 1738)
February 22 â Charles Brockden Brown, American novelist (born 1771; tuberculosis)^[10]
March 14 â Ludwig Timotheus Spittler, German historian (born 1752)
April 3 â Twm o'r Nant, Welsh-language dramatist and poet (born 1739)
May 1 â Christoph Meiners, German philosopher (born 1747)^[11]
May 17 â Robert Tannahill, Scottish poet (born 1774)
May 26 â Catharina Heybeek, Dutch journalist, feminist and editor (born 1764)
December 15 â Sarah Trimmer, English children's writer and critic (born 1741)