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| ===New books=== | ===New books=== | ||
| - | *[[Honoré de Balzac]] - ''[[The Black Sheep]]'' | ||
| *[[Edward George Bulwer-Lytton]] -''[[Zanoni]]'' | *[[Edward George Bulwer-Lytton]] -''[[Zanoni]]'' | ||
| *[[Nikolai Gogol]] | *[[Nikolai Gogol]] | ||
| **''[[Dead Souls]]'' | **''[[Dead Souls]]'' | ||
| **''[[The Overcoat]]'' | **''[[The Overcoat]]'' | ||
| - | *[[Victor Hugo]] - ''[[Le Rhin]]'' | ||
| - | *[[George Sand]] - ''[[Consuelo]]'' | ||
| *[[Eugène Sue]] - ''[[Les Mystères de Paris]]'' | *[[Eugène Sue]] - ''[[Les Mystères de Paris]]'' | ||
| ===Poetry=== | ===Poetry=== | ||
| *[[Robert Browning]] - ''[[Dramatic Lyrics]]'' | *[[Robert Browning]] - ''[[Dramatic Lyrics]]'' | ||
| - | *[[Alfred Tennyson]] - ''[[Locksley Hall]]'' | ||
| ===Non-fiction=== | ===Non-fiction=== | ||
| *[[Charles Dickens]] - ''[[American Notes]]'' | *[[Charles Dickens]] - ''[[American Notes]]'' | ||
| *[[Ralph Waldo Emerson]] - ''[[The Transcendentalist]]'' | *[[Ralph Waldo Emerson]] - ''[[The Transcendentalist]]'' | ||
| - | *[[Henry David Thoreau]] - ''[[A Walk to Wachusett]]'' | ||
| == Births == | == Births == | ||
| * [[January 11]] - [[William James]], American psychologist and philosopher (d. [[1910]]) | * [[January 11]] - [[William James]], American psychologist and philosopher (d. [[1910]]) | ||
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Art and culture
- Charles Baudelaire inherits his father's fortune
- Charles Baudelaire meets Jeanne Duval
- Gaspard de la nuit by Aloysius Bertrand first published posthumously
- "The Quadroons", a short story by Lydia Marie Child on the tragic mulatto trope
- Dead Souls and The Overcoat by Gogol
- "The Black Spider" by Jeremias Gotthelf
- "The Mystery of Marie Roget" by Poe
- 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
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
- 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)
- October 1 - Charles Cros, French poet and inventor (d. 1888)
- 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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