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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1841.

Events

January – The poetElizabeth Barrett Browningis given a goldencocker spaniel,"Flush", by the writerMary Russell Mitford.^[1]
March 4–Dion Boucicault's first London première, the comedyLondon Assurance(originallyOut of Town), opens at theTheatre Royal, Covent Garden.It is presented by the husband-and-wife teamCharles MatthewsandElizabeth Vestris.
April 10–Horace Greeleybegins publication of theNew-York Tribune.^[2]
April 20–Edgar Allan Poe'sshort story"The Murders in the Rue Morgue"appears inGraham's Magazine(Philadelphia), where he has become editor in February. It will be recognized as the first significant work ofdetective fiction.^[3]^[4]
May – TheLondon Libraryis founded inPall Mall, Londonon the initiative ofThomas Carlyle.^[5]
June 23– London publisherEdward Moxonis tried and convicted ofblasphemous libelfor an edition ofShelley's poemQueen Mab(1813) with its atheistic passages restored.^[6]
July 17–Punchmagazine, founded in London byHenry Mayhewand engraverEbenezer Landells,is edited by Mayhew andMark Lemon.^[7]
July 20– The English "peasant poet"John Clareabsconds from an asylum for the insane atHigh Beachin Essex and walks 90 miles (140 km) to his home atNorthboroughin the East Midlands. In late December he is admitted toNorthampton General Lunatic Asylumwhere he will spend the remaining 23 years of his life.
July 28–Mary Rogers,the "Beautiful Cigar Girl", is found murdered in New York City. This will inspire Edgar Allan Poe's story "The Mystery of Marie Rogêt"of the following year, as a sequel to" The Murders in the Rue Morgue ".
unknown dates
- Anthony Panizziand his staff at theBritish MuseumLibrary in London devise "Ninety-One Cataloguing Rules".
- Tauchnitz publishersof Leipzig begin theirCollection of British and American AuthorswithDickens'The Pickwick PapersandBulwer-Lytton'sPelham.This authorized series of cheap reprints will become popular with Anglophone travelers in continental Europe.

New books

Fiction

Khachatur Abovian(posthumous) –Wounds of Armenia(Armenian:Վերք ՀայաստանիVerk Hayastani;first Armenian novel)^[8]
W. Harrison Ainsworth–Old St. Paul's(serialized)^[9]
Peter Christen AsbjørnsenandJørgen Moe(collected anonymously) –Norwegian Folktales(Norske folkeeventyr)
Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda–Sab
Honoré de Balzac–Le Curé de village
Edward Bulwer–Night and Morning
James Fenimore Cooper–The Deerslayer
Catherine Crowe–The Adventures of Susan Hopley
Charles Dickens
- Master Humphrey's Clock(serialization including full-length novels)
- The Old Curiosity Shop
- Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty
Catherine Gore
- Greville, or a Season in Paris
- Cecil, or Adventures of a Coxcomb
- Cecil, A Peer
Jeremias Gotthelf–Uli der Knecht(Uli the Farmhand)
James Justinian Morier–The Mirza
Theodor Mundt–Thomas Münzer
Edgar Allan Poe– short stories
- "The Murders in the Rue Morgue"
- "A Descent into the Maelström"
- "Eleonora"
- "Never Bet the Devil Your Head"
- "Three Sundays in a Week"
Eugène Sue–Mathilde
A. K. Tolstoy–The Vampire(«Упырь»,Oupyr,novella)
Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna
- Conformity
- Falsehood and Truth
- Helen Fleetwood: Tales of the Factories
Samuel Warren–Ten Thousand a Year^[10]

Children

Frederick Marryat
- Joseph Rushbrook, or The Poacher
- Masterman Ready, or the Wreck of the Pacific
Agnes Strickland–Alda, the British Captive
Hans Christian Andersen–Fairy Tales Told for Children. New Collection. Third Booklet(Eventyr, fortalte for Børn. Ny Samling. Tredie Hefte) comprising "Ole Lukoie"(" Ole Lukøje "),"The Rose Elf"(" Rosen-Alfen "),"The Swineherd"(" Svinedrengen ") and" The Buckwheat "(" Boghveden ")

Drama

Dion Boucicault–London Assurance
Robert Browning–Pippa Passes
James Sheridan Knowles–Old Maids
Mary Russell Mitford–Inez de Castro
George Dibdin Pitt(adapted from Catherine Crowe) –Susan Hopley; or, The Vicissitudes of a Servant Girl
Jules-Édouard Alboize de Pujol–Le Tribut des cent vierges
Juliusz Słowacki–Fantazy(published posthumously in 1866)
John Watkins –John Frost: a Chartist play^[11]

Poetry

Mikhail Lermontov–The Demon: An Eastern Tale
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow–Excelsior
James Russell Lowell–A Year's Life
Alexander Pushkin–The Bronze Horseman

Non-fiction

George Borrow–The Zincali; or an Account of the Gypsies of Spain
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
Edgar Allan Poe– "A Few Words on Secret Writing"
Augustus Pugin–The True Principles of Pointed or Christian Architecture

Births

January 15–Sarah Doudney,English novelist, hymnist and children's writer (died1926)
January 18–Lucie Fulton Isaacs,American writer, philanthropist, suffragist (died1916)
February 28–Jean Mounet-Sully,French actor (died1904)
March 21–Mathilde Blind,German-born English poet (died1896)
March 31–Iosif Vulcan,Romanian poet, playwright and novelist (died1907)
April 6–Ivan Surikov,Russian poet (died1898)
April 18–Georges de Peyrebrune(Mathilde-Marie Georgina Élisabeth Johnston of Pierrebrune), French novelist (died1917)
April 30–Laura Jacinta Rittenhouse,American author and poet (died1911)
May 20–Sara Louisa Oberholtzer,American poet and economist (died1930)
May 22–Catulle Mendès,French poet (died1909)
June 19–Hermann Eduard von Holst,German historian (died1904)
June 21–Charitie Lees Smith,American hymnwriter (died1923)
July 4–Susan Marr Spalding,American poet (died1908)
July 27–Harriette A. Keyser,American author, industrial reformer (died1936)
August 3–Juliana Horatia Ewing,English children's writer (died1885)
August 4–William Henry Hudson,Argentinian-born English writer and naturalist (died1922)
August 18–Robert Williams Buchanan,Scottish author (died1901)
September 20–Walter Bradford Woodgate,English boating writer and oarsman (died1920)
September 24–Kate Brownlee Sherwood,American poet, journalist, and translator (died1914)
September 27–Aubertine Woodward Moore,American musician and writer (died1929)
October 6–Clement Scott,English critic and travel writer (died1916)
November 3–Isabella Macdonald Alden,American author (died1930)
November 8–John Charles Dent,English-born Canadian journalist and historian (died1888)
November 13–William Black,Scottish novelist (died1898)
December 29–Henrietta A. Bingham,American writer and editor (died1877)
unknown dates
- Annie Somers Gilchrist(1841-1912), American author (died1912)
- Emily Pitts Stevens,American editor, publisher, educator, and activist (died1906)^[12]
- Emily Elizabeth Veeder,American novelist and poet (died after 1896)^[13]
probable–Liu Qingyun( nháo nguyên tiêu ), Chinese playwright and poet (died 1900 or later)

Deaths

January 12–Märta Helena Reenstierna,Swedish diarist (born1753)
February 21–Dorothea Tieck,German translator (born1799)
April 8–James Browne,Scottish man of letters (born1793)
April 16–Frederick Reynolds,English playwright (born1764)
May 7–Thomas Barnes,English editor ofThe Times(born1785)
May 20–Joseph Blanco White,Spanish-born English poet and theologian (born1775)
July 27–Mikhail Lermontov,Russian poet (duel, born1814)
August 11–Johann Friedrich Herbart,German philosopher (born1776)
September 16–Thomas John Dibdin,English playwright (born1771)
October 31–Georg Anton Friedrich Ast,German philologist and philosopher (born1778)
December 12–Denis-Luc Frayssinous,French theologian and bishop (born1765)

References

^Sullivan, Mary Rose; Raymond, Meredith B., eds. (1983).The letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 1836–1854.Waco: Armstrong Browning Library of Baylor University.ISBN 978-0-911459-00-5.Retrieved2011-10-22.Virginia Woolflater fictionalizes the dog's life, as the protagonist of her1933novelFlush: A Biography.
^New-York Tribune and New York Daily Tribune,Library of Congress.
^Silverman, Kenneth(1991).Edgar A. Poe: Mournful and Never-Ending Remembrance(Paperback ed.). New York: Harper Perennial. p.171.ISBN 978-0-06-092331-0.
^Meyers, Jeffrey (1992).Edgar Allan Poe: His Life and Legacy(Paperback ed.). New York: Cooper Square Press. p. 123.ISBN 978-0-8154-1038-6.
^Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992).The Chronology of British History.London: Century Ltd. pp. 264–266.ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
^Studies in Philology.University of North Carolina Press. 1925. p. 35.
^Spielmann, Marion Harry (1895).The History of "Punch".p.27.
^Hacikyan, Agop Jack; Basmajian, Gabriel; Franchuk, Edward S. (2005).The Heritage of Armenian Literature: From The Eighteenth Century To Modern Times.Detroit: Wayne State University Press. p. 213.ISBN 9780814332214.
^Hahn, Daniel (2015).The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature(2nd ed.). Oxford. University Press. p. 11.ISBN 9780198715542.
^Leavis, Q. D.(1965).Fiction and the Reading Public(2nd ed.). London: Chatto & Windus.
^Vargo, Gregory (Autumn 2018). "Chartist Drama: The Performance of Revolt".Victorian Studies.61(1). Indiana University Press: 9–34.doi:10.2979/victorianstudies.61.1.01.JSTOR 10.2979/victorianstudies.61.1.01.S2CID 151162097.
^Roger Levenson (1994).Women in Printing: Northern California, 1857-1890.Capra Press. p. 89.ISBN 978-0-88496-365-3.
^Charles Dudley Warner (1 July 2008).A Library of the World's Best Literature - Ancient and Modern - Vol.XLIII (Forty-Five Volumes); Dictionary of Authors (K-Z).Cosimo, Inc. p. 544.ISBN 978-1-60520-251-8.

[1] Sullivan, Mary Rose; Raymond, Meredith B., eds. (1983).The letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 1836–1854.Waco: Armstrong Browning Library of Baylor University.ISBN 978-0-911459-00-5.Retrieved2011-10-22.Virginia Woolflater fictionalizes the dog's life, as the protagonist of her1933novelFlush: A Biography.

[2] New-York Tribune and New York Daily Tribune,Library of Congress.

[3] Silverman, Kenneth(1991).Edgar A. Poe: Mournful and Never-Ending Remembrance(Paperback ed.). New York: Harper Perennial. p.171.ISBN 978-0-06-092331-0.

[4] Meyers, Jeffrey (1992).Edgar Allan Poe: His Life and Legacy(Paperback ed.). New York: Cooper Square Press. p. 123.ISBN 978-0-8154-1038-6.

[CBH-5] Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992).The Chronology of British History.London: Century Ltd. pp. 264–266.ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.

[6] Studies in Philology.University of North Carolina Press. 1925. p. 35.

[7] Spielmann, Marion Harry (1895).The History of "Punch".p.27.

[8] Hacikyan, Agop Jack; Basmajian, Gabriel; Franchuk, Edward S. (2005).The Heritage of Armenian Literature: From The Eighteenth Century To Modern Times.Detroit: Wayne State University Press. p. 213.ISBN 9780814332214.

[9] Hahn, Daniel (2015).The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature(2nd ed.). Oxford. University Press. p. 11.ISBN 9780198715542.

[10] Leavis, Q. D.(1965).Fiction and the Reading Public(2nd ed.). London: Chatto & Windus.

[11] Vargo, Gregory (Autumn 2018). "Chartist Drama: The Performance of Revolt".Victorian Studies.61(1). Indiana University Press: 9–34.doi:10.2979/victorianstudies.61.1.01.JSTOR 10.2979/victorianstudies.61.1.01.S2CID 151162097.

[12] Roger Levenson (1994).Women in Printing: Northern California, 1857-1890.Capra Press. p. 89.ISBN 978-0-88496-365-3.

[13] Charles Dudley Warner (1 July 2008).A Library of the World's Best Literature - Ancient and Modern - Vol.XLIII (Forty-Five Volumes); Dictionary of Authors (K-Z).Cosimo, Inc. p. 544.ISBN 978-1-60520-251-8.

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