1842 in literature

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Contents 1 Events 2 New books 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Awards

[edit] Events

• Fanny Burney's diary and letters are posthumously published.

[edit] New books

• The Adventures of Mr Ledbury - Albert Smith
• The Ambassador's Wife - Catherine Gore
• The Black Sheep - Honoré de Balzac
• Consuelo - George Sand
• Dead Souls - Nikolai Gogol
• Handy Andy - Samuel Lover
• The Mysteries of Paris - Eugène Sue
• The Overcoat - Nikolai Gogol
• Percival Keene - Frederick Marryat
• Le Rhin - Victor Hugo
• The Two Admirals - James Fenimore Cooper
• Zanoni - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
• Ojisan Zanoni - Michael C. Willey

[edit] Births

• February 4 - Arrigo Boito, poet (+ 1918)
• February 25 - Karl May, writer (+ 1912)
• June 24 - Ambrose Bierce (+ 1914)

[edit] Deaths

• March 23 - Stendhal, novelist
• July 28 - Clemens Brentano, poet and novelist
• October 23 - Wilhelm Gesenius, Biblical commentator
• November 6 - William Hone, publisher and bookseller
• December 7 - Thomas Hamilton, novelist
• date unknown - Charlotte Dacre, novelist

[edit] Awards