1842
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
Related e |
Featured: |
Contents |
Art and culture
- 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"
- 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
Unless indicated otherwise, the text in this article is either based on Wikipedia article "1842" or another language Wikipedia page thereof used under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License; or on research by Jahsonic and friends. See Art and Popular Culture's copyright notice.