1842 in literature

The year 1842 in literature involved some significant new books.

Events

 * Fanny Burney's diary and letters are posthumously published.
 * The Book of Abraham is published in two installments in the Times and Seasons.
 * Washington Irving presides over a public dinner for Charles Dickens in New York.

New books
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 * Honoré de Balzac - The Black Sheep
 * Edward George Bulwer-Lytton -Zanoni
 * James Fenimore Cooper - The Two Admirals
 * Nikolai Gogol
 * Dead Souls
 * The Overcoat
 * Catherine Gore - The Ambassador's Wife
 * Victor Hugo - Le Rhin
 * Samuel Lover - Handy Andy
 * Frederick Marryat - Percival Keene
 * George Sand - Consuelo
 * Albert Smith - The Adventures of Mr Ledbury

New drama

 * Isabel Hill - Brian the Probationer
 * Johann Nestroy - Einen Jux will er sich machen

Poetry

 * Robert Browning - Dramatic Lyrics
 * Alfred Tennyson - Locksley Hall

Non-fiction

 * Charles Dickens - American Notes
 * Ralph Waldo Emerson - The Transcendentalist
 * Udney Hay Jacob - Peace Maker
 * Henry David Thoreau - A Walk to Wachusett

Births

 * February 4 - Arrigo Boito, poet (+ 1918)
 * February 25 - Karl May, writer (+ 1912)
 * June 24 - Ambrose Bierce (+  1914)

Deaths

 * March 23 - Stendhal, novelist
 * July 28 - Clemens Brentano, poet and novelist
 * October 23 - Wilhelm Gesenius, Biblical commentator
 * November 6 - William Hone, publisher and bookseller
 * December 7 - Thomas Hamilton, novelist