1810 in literature - Definition and Overview

See also: 1809 in literature, other events of 1810, 1811 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

New Books

• De l'Allemagne - Anne Louise Germaine de Stael
• The Assassin of St. Glenroy - Anthony Frederick Holstein
• The Castle of Vivaldi - Caroline Harwood
• Convent of St. Ildefonso - Regina Marie Roche
• Family Legend - Joanna Baillie
• The Festival of St. Jago - Sarah Green
• The Forest of Montalbano - Catherine Cuthbertson
• The Grey Friar and the Black Spirit of the Wye - John English
• The Houses of Osma and Almeria - Regina Maria Roche
• The Lady of the Lake (poem) - Sir Walter Scott
• Di Montranzo - Louisa Stanhope
• The Mysteries of Ferney Castle - Robert Huish
• The Mysteries of the Forest - Mary Houghton
• The Novice of Corpus Domini - Louisa Stanhope
• The Orphan Sisters - Sarah Wilkinson
• The Refusal - Jane West
• The Romance of the Highlands - Peter Middleton Darling
• The Scottish Chiefs - Jane Porter
• Torbolton Abbey - Sarah Wilkinson
• Zastrozzi - Percy Shelley

Births

• May 11 - Caroline Fox, diarist
• May 23 - Sarah Margaret Fuller (+ 1850)
• September 22 - John Brown (author)
• September 29 - Elizabeth Gaskell (+ 1865)
• December 11 - Alfred de Musset

Deaths

• February 9 - Richard Chandler, antiquarian writer
• February 22 - Charles Brockden Brown, American novelist
• May 17 - Robert Tannahill, poet

Awards