1810 in literature explained
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Stockdale Original Poetry by Victor and Cazire, co-written with his sister Elizabeth before he came up to Oxford, but withdrawn due to plagiarism of one poem.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]
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New books
Fiction
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Non-fiction
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)
- 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
Notes and References
- Michael O'Neill (academic) . Michael . O'Neill . Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792–1822) . 2004 . Online . 2015-11-13 . 10.1093/ref:odnb/25312.
- Book: Forest of Montalbano. WorldCat. 6715887 . 6 August 2022.
- Book: Boylan, Henry . 1998. A Dictionary of Irish Biography, 3rd Edition. 129. Dublin. Gill and MacMillan. 978-0-7171-2945-4.
- Ford . Jeremiah Denis Mathias . Alejandro Herculano de Carvalho e Araujo . 7.
- Nelson, Randy F. The Almanac of American Letters. Los Altos, California: William Kaufmann, Inc., 1981: 42.
- Web site: Louise Colet French writer Britannica . www.britannica.com . 26 June 2022 . en.
- Book: Doris Devine Fanelli. Karie Diethorn. History of the Portrait Collection, Independence National Historical Park. 2001. American Philosophical Society. 978-0-87169-242-9. 98–.
- Book: The Encyclopaedia Britannica: Or Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature. 1857. Black. 473.