1841 in literature - Definition

See also: 1840 in literature, other events of 1841, 1842 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

New Books

• Adventures of a Coxcomb - Catherine Gore
• Barnaby Rudge - Charles Dickens
• The Bronze Horseman (poem) - Alexander Pushkin
• Charles O'Malley - Charles Lever
• Conformity - Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna
• The Deerslayer - James Fenimore Cooper
• (poem) - Mikhail Lermontov
• Falsehood and Truth - Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna
• - Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna
• Joseph Rushbroo - Frederick Marryat
• Master Humphrey's Clock - Charles Dickens
• Masterman Ready - Frederick Marryat
• Mathilde - Eugène Sue
• The Murders in the Rue Morgue - Edgar Allan Poe
• Night and Morning - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
• Old St. Paul's - William Harrison Ainsworth
• Season in Paris - Catherine Gore
• Susan Hopley - Catherine Crowe
• A Shady Business - Honoré de Balzac

Births

• August 18 - Robert Williams Buchanan, author († 1901)

Deaths

• May 7 - Thomas Barnes, editor of The Times

Awards