1810 in literature

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Stockdale Original Poetry by Victor and Cazire co-written with his sister Elizabeth before he came up to Oxford, but withdrawn due to plagiarism of one poem; and in November he and his friend Thomas Jefferson Hogg publish the burlesque Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson; Being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

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
• 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

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
• Anne Louise Germaine de Stael – De l'Allemagne (On Germany)
• 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 (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)