1810 in literature

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Stockdale Original Poetry by Victor and Cazire co-written with his sister Elizabeth before he came up to Oxford, but withdrawn due to plagiarism of one poem; and in November he and his friend Thomas Jefferson Hogg publish the burlesque Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson; Being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

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

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

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)

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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