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This article presentscontains listsinformation ofabout the literary events and publications inof '''1841'''.
 
==Events==
*January – PoetThe poet [[Elizabeth Barrett Browning]] is given hera golden [[cocker spaniel]], "Flush", by the writer [[Mary Russell Mitford]].<ref>{{citeCite book |editor1=Sullivan, Mary Rose |editor2=Raymond, Meredith B. |title=The letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 1836–1854 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2VFaAAAAMAAJ |accessdate=2011-10-22 |year=1983 |publisher=Armstrong Browning Library of Baylor University |location=Waco |isbn=978-0-911459-00-5}} [[Virginia Woolf]] later fictionalisesfictionalizes the dog's life of the dog, making himas the protagonist of her [[1933 in literature|1933]] novel ''[[Flush: A Biography]]''.</ref>
*[[March 4]] – [[Dion Boucicault]]'s first London première, the comedy ''[[London Assurance]]'' (originally entitled ''Out of Town''), opens at the [[Theatre Royal, Covent Garden]],. presentedIt byis the company runpresented by the husband-and-wife partnership ofteam [[Charles James Mathews|Charles Matthews]] and [[Elizabeth Vestris]].
*[[April 10]] – [[Horace Greeley]] begins publication of the ''[[New-York Tribune]]''.<ref>[http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/essays/25/ ''New-York Tribune and New York Daily Tribune''], [[Library of Congress]].]</ref>
*[[April 20]] – [[Edgar Allan Poe]]'s [[short story]] "[[The Murders in the Rue Morgue]]" is publishedappears in ''[[Graham's Magazine]]'' ([[Philadelphia]]), (of whichwhere he becamehas become editor in February). The storyIt will be recognized as the first significant work of [[detective fiction]].<ref>{{citeCite book |last=Silverman |first=Kenneth |year=1991 |authorlink=Kenneth Silverman |title=Edgar A. Poe: Mournful and Never-Ending Remembrance |publisher=Harper Perennial |location=New York |edition=Paperback |page=[https://archive.org/details/edgarpoe00kenn/page/171 171] |isbn=978-0-06-092331-0 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/edgarpoe00kenn/page/171 }}</ref><ref>{{citeCite book |last=Meyers |first=Jeffrey |year=1992 |title=Edgar Allan Poe: His Life and Legacy |publisher=Cooper Square Press |location=New York |edition=Paperback |pages=123 |isbn=978-0-8154-1038-6}}</ref>
*[[JulyMay 17]]– –The ''[[PunchLondon (magazine)|PunchLibrary]]'' magazine is founded in London by [[HenryPall Mayhew]]Mall, and engraver [[Ebenezer LandellsLondon]], editedon bythe Mayhewinitiative andof [[MarkThomas LemonCarlyle]].<ref name=CBH>{{citeCite book |last=Palmer |first=Alan |last2=Palmer |first2=Veronica |year=1992 |title=The HistoryChronology of "Punch"British History |firstpublisher=MarionCentury HarryLtd |lastlocation=SpielmannLondon |yearpages=1895264–266 |pageisbn=270-7126-5616-2}}</ref>
*[[June 23]] – London publisher [[Edward Moxon]] is tried and convicted of [[blasphemous libel]] for issuing an edition of [[Percy Bysshe Shelley|Shelley]]'s poem ''[[Queen Mab (poem)|Queen Mab]]'' ([[1813 in literature|1813]]) with its atheistic passages restored.<ref>{{cite book|title=Studies in Philology|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-jg5AAAAMAAJ|year=1925|publisher=University of North Carolina Press|page=35}}</ref>▼
*[[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".▼
*[[July 17]] – ''[[Punch (magazine)|Punch]]'' magazine, founded in London by [[Henry Mayhew]] and engraver [[Ebenezer Landells]], is edited by Mayhew and [[Mark Lemon]].<ref>{{Cite book |title=The History of "Punch" |url=https://archive.org/details/historypunch04spiegoog |first=Marion Harry |last=Spielmann |year=1895 |page=[https://archive.org/details/historypunch04spiegoog/page/n48 27]}}</ref>
▲* London publisher [[Edward Moxon]] is convicted of [[blasphemous libel]] for issuing an edition of [[Shelley]]'s poem ''[[Queen Mab (poem)|Queen Mab]]'' ([[1813 in literature|1813]]) with its atheistic passages restored.
*[[July 20]] – The English "peasant poet" [[John Clare]] absconds from an asylum for the insane at [[High Beach]] in Essex and walks 90 miles (140 km) to his home at [[Northborough, Cambridgeshire|Northborough]] in the East Midlands. In late December he is admitted to [[St Andrew's Hospital|Northampton General Lunatic Asylum]] where he will spend the remaining 23 years of his life.
* [[Anthony Panizzi]] and his staff at the [[British Museum]] Library in London devise the "Ninety-One Cataloguing Rules".▼
▲*[[July 28]] – [[Mary Rogers]], the "Beautiful Cigar Girl", is found murdered in New York City;. thisThis will inspire Edgar Allan Poe's story "[[The Mystery of Marie Rogêt]]" writtenof the following year, as a sequel to "The Murders in the Rue Morgue".
* [[London Library]] founded in [[Pall Mall, London]] on the initiative of [[Thomas Carlyle]].<ref name=CBH>{{cite book |last=Palmer |first=Alan |author2=Veronica |year=1992 |title=The Chronology of British History |publisher=Century Ltd |location=London |pages=264–266 |isbn=0-7126-5616-2}}</ref>
*''unknown dates''
* [[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]]'' and [[Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton|Bulwer-Lytton]]'s ''Pelham''.▼
▲* *[[Anthony Panizzi]] and his staff at the [[British Museum]] Library in London devise the "Ninety-One Cataloguing Rules".
▲* *[[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]]'' and [[Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton|Bulwer-Lytton]]'s ''Pelham''. This authorized series of cheap reprints will become popular with Anglophone travelers in continental Europe.
 
==New books==
===Fiction===
*[[Khachatur Abovian]] (posthumous) – ''[[Wounds of Armenia]]'' ({{lang-hy|Վերք Հայաստանի}} ''Verk Hayastani''; first Armenian novel)<ref>{{citeCite book |title=The Heritage of Armenian Literature: From The Eighteenth Century To Modern Times |year=2005 |publisher=Wayne State University Press |location=Detroit |isbn=9780814332214 |page=213 |author1=Hacikyan, Agop Jack |author2=Basmajian, Gabriel |author3=Franchuk, Edward S.}}</ref>
*[[W. Harrison Ainsworth]] – ''[[Old St. Paul's (novel)|Old St. Paul's]]'' (serialized)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hahn |first1=Daniel |title=The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature |date=2015 |publisher=Oxford. University Press |isbn=9780198715542 |page=11 |edition=2nd}}</ref>
*[[Peter Christen Asbjørnsen]] and [[Jørgen Moe]] (collected anonymously) – ''[[Norwegian Folktales]] (Norske folkeeventyr)''
*[[Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda]] – ''[[Sab (novel)|Sab]]''
*[[Honoré de Balzac]] – ''[[Le Curé de village]]''
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*[[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 (short story)|Eleonora]]"
**"[[Never Bet the Devil Your Head]]"
**"Three Sundays in a Week"
*[[Eugene Sue|Eugène Sue]] – ''Mathilde''
*[[Alexey Konstantinovich Tolstoy|A. K. Tolstoy]] – ''[[The Vampire (novella)|The Vampire]]'' («Упырь», ''Oupyr'', novella)
*[[Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna]]
**''Conformity''
**''Falsehood and Truth''
**''Helen Fleetwood: Tales of the Factories''
*[[Samuel Warren (English lawyer)|Samuel Warren]] – ''Ten Thousand a Year''<ref>{{citeCite book |first=Q. D. |last=Leavis |authorlink=Q. D. Leavis |title=Fiction and the Reading Public |edition=2nd |location=London |publisher=Chatto & Windus |year=1965}}</ref>
 
===Children===
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**''[[Masterman Ready, or the Wreck of the Pacific]]''
*[[Agnes Strickland]] – ''Alda, the British Captive''
*[[Hans Christian Andersen]] – ''[[Fairy Tales Told for Children. New Collection#Fairy Tales Told for Children. New Collection. Third Booklet|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''<ref>{{Cite journal |title=Chartist Drama: The Performance of Revolt |first=Gregory |last=Vargo |journal=[[Victorian Studies]] |volume=61 |issue=1 |date=Autumn 2018 |pages=9–34 |publisher=Indiana University Press |doi=10.2979/victorianstudies.61.1.01 |jstor=10.2979/victorianstudies.61.1.01 |s2cid=151162097 }}</ref>
 
===Poetry===
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*[[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 (died [[1926 in literature|1926]])
*[[January 18]] – [[Lucie Fulton Isaacs]], American writer, philanthropist, suffragist (died [[1916 in literature|1916]])
*[[February 28]] – [[Jean Mounet-Sully]], French actor (died [[1904 in literature|1904]])
*[[March 21]] – [[Mathilde Blind]], German-born English poet (died [[1896 in literature|1896]])
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*[[June 21]] – [[Charitie Lees Smith]], American hymnwriter (died [[1923 in literature|1923]])
*[[July 4]] – [[Susan Marr Spalding]], American poet (died [[1908 in literature|1908]])
*[[July 27]] – [[Harriette A. Keyser]], American author, industrial reformer (died [[1936 in literature|1936]])
*[[August 3]] – [[Juliana Horatia Ewing]], English children's writer (died [[1885 in literature|1885]])
*[[August 4]] – [[William Henry Hudson]], Argentinian-born English writer and naturalist (died [[1922 in literature|1922]])
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*[[November 8]] – [[John Charles Dent]], English-born Canadian journalist and historian (died [[1888 in literature|1888]])
*[[November 13]] – [[William Black (novelist)|William Black]], Scottish novelist (died [[1898 in literature|1898]])
*[[December 29]] – [[Henrietta A. Bingham]], American writer and editor (died [[1877 in literature|1877]])
*''unknown dates''
*Approximate date – [[Liu Qingyun]], Chinese playwright and poet (died 1900 or later)▼
**[[Annie Somers Gilchrist]] (1841-1912), American author (died [[1912 in literature|1912]])
*Unknown dates
**[[Emily Pitts Stevens]], American editor, publisher, educator, and activist (died [[1906 in literature|1906]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Roger Levenson|title=Women in Printing: Northern California, 1857-1890|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BJDgAAAAMAAJ|year=1994|publisher=Capra Press|isbn=978-0-88496-365-3|page=89}}</ref>
**[[Emily Elizabeth Veeder]], American novelist and poet (died after 1896)<ref>{{cite book|author=Charles Dudley Warner|title=A Library of the World's Best Literature - Ancient and Modern - Vol.XLIII (Forty-Five Volumes); Dictionary of Authors (K-Z)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j6k3F_89oyEC&pg=PA544|date=1 July 2008|publisher=Cosimo, Inc.|isbn=978-1-60520-251-8|pages=544}}</ref>
**[[Emily Elizabeth Veeder]], American novelist and poet (unknown year of death])
▲*Approximate date''probable'' – [[Liu Qingyun]] (闹元宵), Chinese playwright and poet (died 1900 or later)
 
==Deaths==
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*[[February 21]] – [[Dorothea Tieck]], German translator (born [[1799 in literature|1799]])
*[[April 8]] – [[James Browne (writer)|James Browne]], Scottish man of letters (born [[1793 in literature|1793]])
* [[April 16]] – [[Frederick Reynolds (writer)|Frederick Reynolds]], English playwright (born [[1764 in literature|1764]])
*[[May 7]] – [[Thomas Barnes (journalist)|Thomas Barnes]], English editor of ''[[The Times]]'' (born [[1785 in literature|1785]])
*[[May 20]] – [[Joseph Blanco White]], Spanish-born English poet and theologian (born [[1775 in literature|1775]])
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