1841 in literature

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The year 1841 in literature involved some significant new books.

Contents

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

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
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
- Helen Fleetwood: Tales of the Factories

New drama

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

Poetry

Alexander Pushkin - The Bronze Horseman
Mikhail Lermontov - The Demon: An Eastern Tale
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
Søren Kierkegaard - On the Concept of Irony with Continual Reference to Socrates

Births

February 28 - Jean Mounet-Sully, actor (d. 1904)
April 6 - Ivan Surikov, poet (d.1880)
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
- Märta Helena Reenstierna, diarist