This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1810.
Events
- February â The eccentric English amateur actor Robert Coates makes his début 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Stockdale Original Poetry by Victor and Cazire, co-written with his sister Elizabeth before he came up to Oxford, but withdrawn due to plagiarism of one poem.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.
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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
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
- 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)
- March 28 â Alexandre Herculano, Portuguese writer and historian (died 1877)
- April 8 â Hégésippe Moreau, French writer and poet (died 1838)
- 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)
- August 6 â William Ticknor, American publisher (died 1864)
- August 15 â Louise Colet, French poet (died 1876)
- August 29 â Juan Bautista Alberdi, Argentinian politician and writer (died 1884)
- August 31 â FrantiÃ
¡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)
- December 11 â Alfred de Musset, French poet (died 1857)
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