1810 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1810.
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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Stockdale Original Poetry by Victor and Cazire, co-written with his sister Elizabeth before he came up to Oxford, but withdrawn due to plagiarism of one poem.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.
New books
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
- Jan Potocki – The Manuscript Found in Saragossa (Manuscrit trouvé à Saragosse, 2nd version)
- 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
- 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)
- 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 (born 1771; tuberculosis)[2]
- 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)[3]
- May 17 – Robert Tannahill, Scottish poet (born 1774)
- December 15 – Sarah Trimmer, English children's writer and critic (born 1741)
References
- 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)
- 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.
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