1810 in literature
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The year 1810 in literature involved some significant new books.
New books
- Catherine CuthbertsonCatherine CuthbertsonCatherine Cuthbertson was an English-language novelist in the early 19th-century. Among her works were Romance of the Pyrenees , Forest of Montalbano , and The Hut and the Castle: a Romance ....
- The Forest of Montalbano - Peter Middleton Darling - The Romance of the Highlands
- John EnglishJohn EnglishJohn Richard English, CM, FRSC is a Canadian academic who has also been very active in Canadian public life.A native of Plattsville, Ontario, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1967 from the University of Waterloo. He completed his A.M. degree in 1968 and PhD in 1973 at Harvard University...
- The Grey Friar and the Black Spirit of the Wye - Sarah Green - The Festival of St. Jago
- Caroline Horwood - The Castle of Vivaldi
- Ann HattonAnn HattonAnn Julia Hatton , was a popular novelist in Britain in the early 19th century.-Biography:...
- Cambrian Pictures - Anthony Frederick Holstein - The Assassin of St. Glenroy
- Mary Houghton - The Mysteries of the Forest
- Robert HuishRobert HuishRobert Huish was a prolific, but generally poorly regarded, English author of history books, novels, and miscellaneous other works.-Life:...
- The Mysteries of Ferney Castle - Emma ParkerEmma ParkerEmma Parker , novelist.Parker seems to have lived at Fairfield House, Denbighshire. She was the author of several novels which were favourably criticised by the critical and monthly reviews...
– A Soldier’s Offspring - Jane PorterJane PorterJane Porter was a Scottish historical novelist and dramatist.-Life and work:Jane Porter was an avid reader. Said to rise at four in the morning in order to read and write, she read the whole of Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene while still a child...
- The Scottish Chiefs - Regina Marie Roche
- Convent of St. Ildefonso
- The Houses of Osma and Almeria
- Percy Bysshe ShelleyPercy Bysshe ShelleyPercy Bysshe Shelley was one of the major English Romantic poets and is critically regarded as among the finest lyric poets in the English language. Shelley was famous for his association with John Keats and Lord Byron...
- ZastrozziZastrozziZastrozzi: A Romance is a Gothic novel by Percy Bysshe Shelley first published in 1810 in London by George Wilkie and John Robinson anonymously, with only the initials of the author's name, as "by P.B.S."... - Anne Louise Germaine de StaelAnne Louise Germaine de StaëlAnne Louise Germaine de Staël-Holstein , commonly known as Madame de Staël, was a French-speaking Swiss author living in Paris and abroad. She influenced literary tastes in Europe at the turn of the 19th century.- Childhood :...
- De l'Allemagne - Louisa StanhopeLouisa StanhopeLouisa Sidney Stanhope was an English novelist of the early 19th century. She wrote mainly historical and Gothic romances.-Novels:*Montbrasil Abbey: or, Maternal Trials...
- Di Montranzo
- The Novice of Corpus Domini
- Catherine George Ward – The Daughter of St Omar
- Jane WestJane WestJane West [née Iliffe] , who published as "Prudentia Homespun" and "Mrs. West," was an English novelist, poet, playwright, and writer of conduct literature and educational tracts.- Life :...
- The Refusal - Sarah Wilkinson
- The Orphan Sisters
- Torbolton Abbey
Poetry
- Sir Walter Scott - The Lady of the Lake
- Percy Bysshe ShelleyPercy Bysshe ShelleyPercy Bysshe Shelley was one of the major English Romantic poets and is critically regarded as among the finest lyric poets in the English language. Shelley was famous for his association with John Keats and Lord Byron...
with Elizabeth Shelley - Original Poetry by Victor and CazireOriginal Poetry by Victor and CazireOriginal Poetry by Victor and Cazire was a poetry collection published anonymously by Percy Bysshe Shelley in September, 1810 by C. and W. Phillips in Worthing and sold by publisher John Joseph Stockdale. The work was Shelley's first published volume of poetry. Shelley wrote the poems in... - Percy Bysshe ShelleyPercy Bysshe ShelleyPercy Bysshe Shelley was one of the major English Romantic poets and is critically regarded as among the finest lyric poets in the English language. Shelley was famous for his association with John Keats and Lord Byron...
with Thomas Jefferson HoggThomas Jefferson HoggThomas Jefferson Hogg was a British barrister and writer best known for his friendship with the Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. Hogg was raised in County Durham, but spent most of his life in London. He and Shelley became friends while studying at University College, Oxford, and remained close...
- Posthumous Fragments of Margaret NicholsonPosthumous Fragments of Margaret NicholsonPosthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson was a collection of poetry published in November, 1810 by Percy Bysshe Shelley and his friend Thomas Jefferson Hogg while they were students at Oxford University. The pamphlet was subtitled: "Being Poems found amongst the Papers of that Noted Female who...
Births
- May 11 - Caroline FoxCaroline FoxCaroline Fox was an English diarist. She was the daughter of Robert Were Fox FRS of the influential Fox family of Falmouth, and was the younger sister of both Barclay Fox, also a diarist, and Anna Maria Fox....
, diarist - May 23 - Sarah Margaret FullerMargaret FullerSarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli, commonly known as Margaret Fuller, was an American journalist, critic, and women's rights advocate associated with the American transcendentalism movement. She was the first full-time American female book reviewer in journalism...
(d. 18501850 in literatureThe year 1850 in literature involved some significant new books.-Events:*Alfred Lord Tennyson named Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, succeeding William Wordsworth.*Periodical Household Words begins publication...
) - September 22 - John Brown (physician)John Brown (physician)John Brown FRSE FRCPE was a Scottish physician and essayist. He was the son of the clergyman John Brown , and was born in Biggar, Scotland. He is best known for his 3 volume collection Horae Subsecivae—"Leisure Hours" , including essays and papers on art, medical history and biography...
- September 29 - Elizabeth GaskellElizabeth GaskellElizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, née Stevenson , often referred to simply as Mrs Gaskell, was a British novelist and short story writer during the Victorian era...
(d. 18651865 in literatureThe year 1865 in literature involved some significant new books.-Events:* June 9 - Charles Dickens is involved in the Staplehurst rail crash....
) - December 11 - Alfred de MussetAlfred de MussetAlfred Louis Charles de Musset-Pathay was a French dramatist, poet, and novelist.Along with his poetry, he is known for writing La Confession d'un enfant du siècle from 1836.-Biography:Musset was born on 11 December 1810 in Paris...
, French poet
Deaths
- February 2 - James HumphreysJames Humphreys (printer)James Humphreys was a printer, publisher, merchant and politician in Nova Scotia and Pennsylvania. He represented Shelburne County in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1793 to 1796....
, printer and publisher (b. 17481748 in literatureThe year 1748 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* While in debtor's prison in London, John Cleland writes Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, also known as Fanny Hill, considered the first modern "erotic novel" by some.* Euler’s fifth paper on nautical topics, E137,...
) - February 9 - Richard ChandlerRichard ChandlerRichard Chandler was an English antiquary.Chandler was educated at Winchester and at Queen's College, Oxford and Magdalen College, Oxford....
, antiquarian writer - February 22 - Charles Brockden BrownCharles Brockden BrownCharles Brockden Brown , an American novelist, historian, and editor of the Early National period, is generally regarded by scholars as the most ambitious and accomplished US novelist before James Fenimore Cooper...
, American novelist (b. 17711771 in literatureSee also: 1770 in literature, other events of 1771, 1772 in literature, list of years in literature.-Events:*April 9 - Pedro Correia Garção is arrested and committed to prison by Sebastião de Melo, Marquis of Pombal....
) (tuberculosis) - March 14 - Ludwig Timotheus SpittlerLudwig Timotheus SpittlerLudwig Timotheus Spittler was a German historian who was born in Stuttgart. He published works on national, church and political history....
, historian (b. 17521752 in literatureThe year 1752 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* John Hill and Henry Fielding begin the Paper War of 1752-1753.* Tobias Smollett quarrels with Henry Fielding, accusing him of plagiarism.-New Books:...
) - April 3 - Twm o'r NantTwm o'r NantTwm o’r Nant was the pen name of Welsh language dramatist and poet Thomas Edwards . He was born in Llannefydd, Denbighshire, north-east Wales. He was famous for his anterliwtau , performed mainly around his native Denbighshire, north Wales.-External links:...
, Welsh-language dramatist and poet (b. 17391739 in literatureThe year 1739 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* War between the United Kingdom and Spain begins.* Celebrity hanging of Dick Turpin.* Handel's Saul performed....
) - May 17 - Robert TannahillRobert TannahillRobert Tannahill was a Scottish poet. Known as the 'Weaver Poet', his music and poetry is contemporaneous with that of Robert Burns.He was born at Castle Street in Paisley on 3 June 1774, the fourth son in a family of seven...
, poet - date unknown - Christoph MeinersChristoph MeinersChristoph Meiners was a German philosopher and historian, born in Hemmoor. He supported a polygenist theory of human origins....
, philosopher (b. 17471747 in literatureThe year 1747 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* Samuel Johnson begins work on his dictionary of the English language* David Garrick becomes one of the managers of Drury Lane Theatre-New books:...
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