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Overview of the events of 1841 in literature
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1841 .
Events
January – Poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning is given her golden cocker spaniel "Flush" by writer Mary Russell Mitford .[ 1]
March 4 – Dion Boucicault 's first London première, the comedy London Assurance Out of Town ), opens at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden , presented by the company run by the husband-and-wife partnership of Charles Matthews and Elizabeth Vestris .April 10 – Horace Greeley begins publication of the New-York Tribune [ 2] April 20 – Edgar Allan Poe 's short story "The Murders in the Rue Morgue " is published in Graham's Magazine Philadelphia ) (of which he became editor in February). The story will be recognized as the first significant work of detective fiction .[ 3] [ 4] July 17 – Punch Henry Mayhew and engraver Ebenezer Landells , edited by Mayhew and Mark Lemon .[ 5] 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 " written the following year as a sequel to "The Murders in the Rue Morgue".London publisher Edward Moxon is convicted of blasphemous libel for issuing an edition of Shelley 's poem Queen Mab 1813 ) with its atheistic passages restored.
Anthony Panizzi and his staff at the British Museum Library in London devise the "Ninety-One Cataloguing Rules".London Library founded in Pall Mall, London on the initiative of Thomas Carlyle .[ 6] Tauchnitz publishers of Leipzig begin their Collection of British and American Authors , an authorized series of cheap paperback reprints which will become popular with anglophone travellers in continental Europe, with Dickens ' The Pickwick Papers Bulwer-Lytton 's Pelham .
New books
Fiction
Children
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
January 15 – Sarah Doudney , English novelist, hymnist and children's writer (died 1926 )February 28 – Jean Mounet-Sully , French actor (died 1904 )March 21 – Mathilde Blind , German-born English poet (died 1896 )March 31 – Iosif Vulcan , Romanian poet, playwright and novelist (died 1907 )April 6 – Ivan Surikov , Russian poet (died 1898 )April 18 – Georges de Peyrebrune (Mathilde-Marie Georgina Élisabeth Johnston of Pierrebrune), French novelist (died 1917 )April 30 – Laura Jacinta Rittenhouse , American author and poet (died 1911 )May 20 – Sara Louisa Oberholtzer , American poet and economist (died 1930 )May 22 – Catulle Mendès , French poet (died 1909 )June 19 – Hermann Eduard von Holst , German historian (died 1904 )June 21 – Charitie Lees Smith , American hymnwriter (died 1923 )July 4 – Susan Marr Spalding , American poet (died 1908 )August 3 – Juliana Horatia Ewing , English children's writer (died 1885 )August 4 – William Henry Hudson , Argentinian-born English writer and naturalist (died 1922 )August 18 – Robert Williams Buchanan , Scottish author (died 1901 )September 20 – Walter Bradford Woodgate , English boating writer and oarsman (died 1920 )September 24 – Kate Brownlee Sherwood , American poet, journalist, and translator (died 1914 )September 27 – Aubertine Woodward Moore , American musician and writer (died 1929 )October 6 – Clement Scott , English critic and travel writer (died 1916 )November 3 – Isabella Macdonald Alden , American author (died 1930 )November 8 – John Charles Dent , English-born Canadian journalist and historian (died 1888 )November 13 – William Black , Scottish novelist (died 1898 )December 29 – Henrietta A. Bingham , American writer and editor(died 1877 )Approximate date – Liu Qingyun , Chinese playwright and poet (died 1900 or later)
Unknown dates
Deaths
Dorothea Tieck January 12 – Märta Helena Reenstierna , Swedish diarist (born 1753 )February 21 – Dorothea Tieck , German translator (born 1799 )April 8 – James Browne , Scottish man of letters (born 1793 )May 7 – Thomas Barnes , English editor of The Times 1785 )May 20 – Joseph Blanco White , Spanish-born English poet and theologian (born 1775 )July 27 – Mikhail Lermontov , Russian poet (duel, born 1814 )August 11 – Johann Friedrich Herbart , German philosopher (born 1776 )September 16 – Thomas John Dibdin , English playwright (born 1771 )October 31 – Georg Anton Friedrich Ast , German philologist and philosopher (born 1778 )December 12 – Denis-Luc Frayssinous , French theologian and bishop (born 1765 )
References
^ Sullivan, Mary Rose; Raymond, Meredith B., eds. (1983). The letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 1836–1854 ISBN 978-0-911459-00-5 . Retrieved 2011-10-22 . Virginia Woolf later fictionalises the life of the dog, making him the protagonist of her 1933 novel Flush: 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 ^ Spielmann, Marion Harry (1895). The History of "Punch" . p. 27. ^ Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History . London: Century Ltd. pp. 264–266. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2 ^ 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 ^ Leavis, Q. D. (1965). Fiction and the Reading Public (2nd ed.). London: Chatto & Windus.
