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| *[[Charles Dickens]] - ''[[American Notes]]'' | *[[Charles Dickens]] - ''[[American Notes]]'' | ||
| *[[Ralph Waldo Emerson]] - ''[[The Transcendentalist]]'' | *[[Ralph Waldo Emerson]] - ''[[The Transcendentalist]]'' | ||
| - | *[[Udney Hay Jacob]] - ''[[Peace Maker (pamphlet)|Peace Maker]]'' | ||
| *[[Henry David Thoreau]] - ''[[A Walk to Wachusett]]'' | *[[Henry David Thoreau]] - ''[[A Walk to Wachusett]]'' | ||
| == Births == | == Births == | ||
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Art and culture
- Gaspard de la nuit by Aloysius Bertrand first published posthumously
- "The Quadroons"
- Dead Souls by Gogol
- "The Black Spider"
- "The Mystery of Marie Roget"
- Charles Baudelaire inherits his father's fortune
- Charles Baudelaire meets Jeanne Duval
- The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe
- On May 14th 1842, the first issue of the Illustrated London News was published.
New books
- Honoré de Balzac - The Black Sheep
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton -Zanoni
- Nikolai Gogol
- Victor Hugo - Le Rhin
- George Sand - Consuelo
- Eugène Sue - Les Mystères de Paris
Poetry
Non-fiction
- Charles Dickens - American Notes
- Ralph Waldo Emerson - The Transcendentalist
- Henry David Thoreau - A Walk to Wachusett
Births
- Charles Cros (1842 - 1888)
- January 11 - William James, American psychologist and philosopher (d. 1910)
- February 25 - Karl May, German writer (d. 1912)
- March 18 - Stéphane Mallarmé, French poet (d. 1898)
- June 24 - Ambrose Bierce , American writer (d. 1914)
- December 9 - Peter Kropotkin, Russian anarchist (d. 1921)
Deaths
- March 23 - Stendhal, French writer (b. 1783)
- July 28 - Clemens Brentano, German poet (b. 1778)
- November 17 - John Varley, watercolour painter
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