1810 in literature

• 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Stockdale Original Poetry by Victor and Cazire, co-written with his sister Elizabeth before he came up to Oxford, but withdrawn due to plagiarism of one poem.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.{{Cite ODNB |authorlink=Michael O'Neill (academic) |first=Michael |last=O'Neill |title=Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792–1822) |year=2004 |edition=Online |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/25312 |accessdate=2015-11-13 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/25312}}
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• Germaine de Staël's study of Germany De l'Allemagne is published in Paris but suppressed by order of Napoleon.
• A collection, The British Novelists, with an introductory essay and prefaces by Anna Laetitia Barbauld, appears in 50 volumes in London from F. C. & J. Rivington.

• Johann August Apel and Friedrich Laun – {{lang|de|Gespensterbuch}}
• Catherine Cuthbertson – The Forest of Montalbano{{cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/6715887|title=Forest of Montalbano|via=WorldCat|oclc=6715887 |access-date=6 August 2022}}
• 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
• Jan Potocki – The Manuscript Found in Saragossa (Manuscrit trouvé à Saragosse, 2nd version)
• Regina Marie Roche – The Houses of Osma and Almeria; or, Convent of St. Ildefonso: a Tale
• 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

• Joanna Baillie – The Family Legend
• James Sheridan Knowles – Leo; or, The Gipsy
• Adam Oehlenschläger – Axel og Valborg
• Heinrich von Kleist – The Prince of Homburg (Prinz Friedrich von Homburg oder die Schlacht bei Fehrbellin, written)

• 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

• 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
• Germaine de Staël – De l'Allemagne
• William Wordsworth – Guide to the Lakes

• February 10 – Giulietta Pezzi, Italian novelist, journalist, and poet (died 1878)
• March 10 – Samuel Ferguson, Northern Irish lawyer, poet and artist (died 1886){{cite book|last=Boylan|first= Henry |year=1998|title=A Dictionary of Irish Biography, 3rd Edition|page= 129|location=Dublin|publisher= Gill and MacMillan|isbn = 978-0-7171-2945-4}}
• March 28 – Alexandre Herculano, Portuguese writer and historian (died 1877){{Cite CE1913|last=Ford |first=Jeremiah Denis Mathias |wstitle=Alejandro Herculano de Carvalho e Araujo |volume=7}}
• 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)Nelson, Randy F. The Almanac of American Letters. Los Altos, California: William Kaufmann, Inc., 1981: 42. {{ISBN|0-86576-008-X}}
• August 6 – William Ticknor, American publisher (died 1864)
• August 15 – Louise Colet, French poet (died 1876){{cite web |title=Louise Colet {{!}} French writer {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Louise-Colet |website=www.britannica.com |access-date=26 June 2022 |language=en}}
• August 29 – Juan Bautista Alberdi, Argentinian politician and writer (died 1884){{cite book|author1=Carlos A. Solé|author2=Maria Isabel Abreu|title=Latin American Writers|publisher=Scribner|year=1989|isbn=9780684185972|page=153}}
• 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){{cite web|url=https://gaskellsociety.co.uk/elizabeth-gaskell/|title=Elizabeth Gaskell Biography - The Gaskell Society|website=Gaskellsociety.co.uk|access-date=20 January 2025}}
• December 11 – Alfred de Musset, French poet (died 1857){{cite book|author=Alfred de Musset|title=The Confession of a Child of the Century|publisher=Current Lit. Publishing Company|year=1925|page=224}}

• February 9 – Richard Chandler, English antiquary (born 1738)
• February 22 – Charles Brockden Brown, American novelist (born 1771; tuberculosis){{cite book|author1=Doris Devine Fanelli|author2=Karie Diethorn|title=History of the Portrait Collection, Independence National Historical Park|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UWvU0cjtJVEC&pg=PA98|year=2001|publisher=American Philosophical Society|isbn=978-0-87169-242-9|pages=98–}}
• 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){{cite book|title=The Encyclopaedia Britannica: Or Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JmRVAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA473|year=1857|publisher=Black|pages=473}}
• May 17 – Robert Tannahill, Scottish poet (born 1774)
• May 26 – Catharina Heybeek, Dutch journalist, feminist and editor (born 1764)
• December 15 – Sarah Trimmer, English children's writer and critic (born 1741)

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