1842 in literature

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

Awards

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