1841 in literature

1841 in literature

The year 1841 in literature involved some significant new books.

Events

*Horace Greeley begins publication of the "New York Tribune".
*"Punch" magazine is founded in London.

New books

*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

*Dion Boucicault - "London Assurance"
*Robert Browning - "Pippa Passes"
*Mary Russell Mitford - "Inez de Castro"

Poetry

*Alexander Pushkin - "The Bronze Horseman"
*Mikhail Lermontov - ""
*James Russell Lowell - "A Year's Life"
*Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - "Excelsior"

Non-fiction

*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

*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, theologian

Awards

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