1841 in literature

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Contents 1 Events 2 New books 3 Poetry 4 New drama 5 Poetry 6 Non-fiction 7 Births 8 Deaths 9 Awards

[edit] Events

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

[edit] New books

• William Harrison Ainsworth - Old St. Paul's
• Edward George Bulwer-Lytton - Night and Morning
• James Fenimore Cooper - The Deerslayer
• Charles Dickens
  • Barnaby Rudge
  • Master Humphrey's Clock
• Catherine Gore
  • Adventures of a Coxcomb
  • Season in Paris
• Jeremias Gotthelf - Uli der Knecht
• Frederick Marryat
  • Joseph Rushbroo
  • Masterman Ready
• Theodor Mundt - Thomas Münzer
• Edgar Allan Poe - The Murders in the Rue Morgue
• Eugène Sue - Mathilde
• Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna
  • Conformity
  • Falsehood and Truth
  • Helen Fleetwood: Tales of the Factories
• Susan Hopley - Catherine Crowe
• A Shady Business - Honoré de Balzac

[edit] Poetry

• Alexander Pushkin - The Bronze Horseman
• Mikhail Lermontov - The Demon: An Eastern Tale

[edit] New drama

• Dion Boucicault - London Assurance
• Robert Browning - Pippa Passes

[edit] Poetry

• James Russell Lowell - A Year's Life

[edit] 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)

[edit] Births

• February 28 - Jean Mounet-Sully, actor († 1904)
• May 22 - Catulle Mendès, poet († 1909)
• June - Hermann Eduard von Holst, historian († 1904)
• August 4 - William Henry Hudson, naturalist and author († 1922)
• August 18 - Robert Williams Buchanan, author († 1901)
• October 6 - Clement Scott, critic and travel writer († 1916)
• November 8 - John Charles Dent, journalist and historian († 1888)
• November 13 - William Black, novelist († 1898)

[edit] 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

[edit] Awards