- 1841 in literature
The year 1841 in literature involved some significant new books.
Events
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Horace Greeley begins publication of the "New York Tribune ".
*"Punch" magazine is founded in London.New books
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William Harrison Ainsworth - "Old St. Paul's "
*Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda - "Sab "
*Honoré de Balzac - "A Shady Business "
*Edward George Bulwer-Lytton - "Night and Morning "
*James Fenimore Cooper - "The Deerslayer"
*Catherine Crowe - "Susan Hopley "
*Charles Dickens
**"The Old Curiosity Shop "
**""
**"Master Humphrey's Clock "
*Catherine Gore
**"Adventures of a Coxcomb "
**"Season in Paris "
*Jeremias Gotthelf - "Uli der Knecht "
*Washington Irving - "Biography and Poetical Remains of the Late Margaret Miller Davidson "
*Frederick Marryat
**"Joseph Rushbroo "
**"Masterman Ready "
*Theodor Mundt - "Thomas Münzer "
*Edgar Allan Poe - "The Murders in the Rue Morgue " (short story)
*Eugène Sue - "Mathilde"
*Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna
**"Conformity"
**"Falsehood and Truth "
**""New drama
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Dion Boucicault - "London Assurance"
*Robert Browning - "Pippa Passes "
*Mary Russell Mitford - "Inez de Castro"Poetry
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Alexander Pushkin - "The Bronze Horseman "
*Mikhail Lermontov - ""
*James Russell Lowell - "A Year's Life"
*Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - "Excelsior"Non-fiction
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Thomas Carlyle - "On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History"
*Ralph Waldo Emerson - "Essays"
*Ludwig Feuerbach - "Das Wesen des Christentums (The Essence of Christianity )"
*Washington Irving - "Biography and Poetical Remains of the Late Margaret Miller Davidson"Births
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February 28 -Jean Mounet-Sully , actor (d.1904 )
*May 22 -Catulle Mendès , poet (d.1909 )
*June -Hermann Eduard von Holst , historian (d. 1904)
*August 4 -William Henry Hudson , naturalist and author (d.1922 )
*August 18 -Robert Williams Buchanan , author (d.1901 )
*October 6 -Clement Scott , critic and travel writer (d.1916 )
*November 8 -John Charles Dent , journalist and historian (d.1888 )
*November 13 -William Black , novelist (d.1898 )Deaths
*April -
James Browne , journalist and critic
*May 7 - Thomas Barnes, editor of "The Times "
*May 20 -Joseph Blanco White , poet and theologian
*July 27 -Mikhail Lermontov , poet
*August 11 -Johann Friedrich Herbart , philosopher
*September 16 -Thomas John Dibdin , dramatist
*October 31 -Georg Anton Friedrich Ast , philologist and philosopher
*December 12 -Denis-Luc Frayssinous , theologianAwards
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