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Overview of the events of 1810 in literature
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Original Poetry by Victor and Cazire , co-written with his sister Elizabeth before he came up to Oxford, but withdrawn due to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]
unknown dates
New books
Fiction
Drama
Poetry
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
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.)
^
Forest of Montalbano .
OCLC
6715887 . Retrieved 6 August 2022 – via WorldCat.
^ Boylan, Henry (1998). A Dictionary of Irish Biography, 3rd Edition . Dublin: Gill and MacMillan. p. 129.
ISBN
978-0-7171-2945-4 .
^ Ford, Jeremiah Denis Mathias (1910).
"Alejandro Herculano de Carvalho e Araujo" . In Herbermann, Charles (ed.).
Catholic Encyclopedia . Vol. 7. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
^ Nelson, Randy F. The Almanac of American Letters . Los Altos, California: William Kaufmann, Inc., 1981: 42.
ISBN
0-86576-008-X
^
"Louise Colet | French writer | Britannica" . www.britannica.com . Retrieved 26 June 2022 .
^ 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.