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1842
in
literature&o=10616
1842 in literature&o=10616
1842 in literature
The year
1842 in literature
involved some significant new books.
Events
Fanny Burney
's diary and letters are posthumously published.
The Book of Abraham
is published in two installments in the
Times and Seasons
.
Washington Irving
presides over a public dinner for
Charles Dickens
in New York.
New books
Honoré de Balzac
-
The Black Sheep
Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
-
Zanoni
James Fenimore Cooper
-
The Two Admirals
Nikolai Gogol
Dead Souls
The Overcoat
Catherine Gore
-
The Ambassador's Wife
Victor Hugo
-
Le Rhin
Samuel Lover
-
Handy Andy
Frederick Marryat
-
Percival Keene
George Sand
-
Consuelo
Albert Smith
-
The Adventures of Mr Ledbury
New drama
Isabel Hill
-
Brian the Probationer
Johann Nestroy
-
Einen Jux will er sich machen
Poetry
Robert Browning
-
Dramatic Lyrics
Alfred Tennyson
-
Locksley Hall
Non-fiction
Charles Dickens
-
American Notes
Ralph Waldo Emerson
-
The Transcendentalist
Udney Hay Jacob
-
Peace Maker
Henry David Thoreau
-
A Walk to Wachusett
Births
February 4
-
Arrigo Boito
,
poet
(+
1918
)
February 25
-
Karl May
, writer (+
1912
)
June 24
-
Ambrose Bierce
(+
1914
)
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
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