1810 in literature

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Stockdale Original Poetry by Victor and Cazire , co-written with his sister Elizabeth before he came up to Oxford, but withdrawn due to plagiarism of one poem.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]
• unknown dates
  • 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.

New books

Fiction

• 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

Drama

• 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)

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
• Germaine de Staël – De l'Allemagne
• William Wordsworth – Guide to the Lakes

Births

• 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) ^[7]
• 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) ^[8]
• December 11 – Alfred de Musset, French poet (died 1857) ^[9]

Deaths

• February 9 – Richard Chandler, English antiquary (born 1738)
• February 22 – Charles Brockden Brown, American novelist (born 1771; tuberculosis) ^[10]
• 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) ^[11]
• 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)

References

1. 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.)
2. Forest of Montalbano. OCLC   6715887.
3. Boylan, Henry (1998). A Dictionary of Irish Biography, 3rd Edition. Dublin: Gill and MacMillan. p. 129. ISBN   978-0-7171-2945-4.
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.
5. Nelson, Randy F. The Almanac of American Letters. Los Altos, California: William Kaufmann, Inc., 1981: 42. ISBN   0-86576-008-X
6. "Louise Colet | French writer | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 26 June 2022.
7. Carlos A. Solé; Maria Isabel Abreu (1989). Latin American Writers. Scribner. p. 153. ISBN   9780684185972.
8. "Elizabeth Gaskell Biography - The Gaskell Society". Gaskellsociety.co.uk. Retrieved 20 January 2025.
9. Alfred de Musset (1925). The Confession of a Child of the Century. Current Lit. Publishing Company. p. 224.
10. 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.
11. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: Or Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature. Black. 1857. p. 473.