1841 in literature
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[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
- 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
- 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
[edit] New drama
- Mary Russell Mitford - Inez de Castro
[edit] Poetry
- Alexander Pushkin - The Bronze Horseman
- Mikhail Lermontov - The Demon: An Eastern Tale
- James Russell Lowell - A Year's Life
[edit] New drama
- Dion Boucicault - London Assurance
- Robert Browning - Pippa Passes
[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
