1810 in literature

The year 1810 in literature involved some significant new books.

New books

 * Catherine Cuthbertson - The Forest of Montalbano
 * Peter Middleton Darling - The Romance of the Highlands
 * John English - The Grey Friar and the Black Spirit of the Wye
 * Sarah Green - The Festival of St. Jago
 * Caroline Horwood - The Castle of Vivaldi
 * Ann Hatton - Cambrian Pictures
 * Anthony Frederick Holstein - The Assassin of St. Glenroy
 * Mary Houghton - The Mysteries of the Forest
 * Robert Huish - The Mysteries of Ferney Castle
 * Emma Parker – A Soldier’s Offspring
 * Jane Porter - The Scottish Chiefs
 * Regina Marie Roche
 * Convent of St. Ildefonso
 * The Houses of Osma and Almeria
 * Percy Bysshe Shelley - Zastrozzi
 * Anne Louise Germaine de Stael - De l'Allemagne
 * Louisa Stanhope
 * Di Montranzo
 * The Novice of Corpus Domini
 * Catherine George Ward – The Daughter of St Omar
 * Jane West - The Refusal
 * Sarah Wilkinson
 * The Orphan Sisters
 * Torbolton Abbey

New drama

 * Joanna Baillie - Family Legend
 * Sarah Richardson - Ethelred

Poetry

 * Sir Walter Scott - The Lady of the Lake
 * Percy Bysshe Shelley with Elizabeth Shelley - Original Poetry by Victor and Cazire
 * Percy Bysshe Shelley with Thomas Jefferson Hogg - Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson

Births

 * May 11 - Caroline Fox, diarist
 * May 23 - Sarah Margaret Fuller (d. 1850)
 * September 22 - John Brown (physician)
 * September 29 - Elizabeth Gaskell (d. 1865)
 * December 11 - Alfred de Musset, French poet

Deaths

 * February 2 - James Humphreys, printer and publisher (b. 1748)
 * February 9 - Richard Chandler, antiquarian writer
 * February 22 - Charles Brockden Brown, American novelist (b. 1771) (tuberculosis)
 * March 14 - Ludwig Timotheus Spittler, historian (b. 1752)
 * April 3 - Twm o'r Nant, Welsh-language dramatist and poet (b. 1739)
 * May 17 - Robert Tannahill, poet
 * date unknown - Christoph Meiners, philosopher (b. 1747)