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This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of literature during 1841. ==Events== *January – Poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning is given her golden cocker spaniel "Flush" by writer Mary Russell Mitford.〔 Virginia Woolf later fictionalises the life of the dog, making him the protagonist of her 1933 novel ''Flush: A Biography''.〕 *March 4 – Dion Boucicault's first London première, the comedy ''London Assurance'' (originally entitled ''Out of Town''), opens at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, presented by the company run by the husband-and-wife partnership of Charles Matthews and Elizabeth Vestris. *April 10 – Horace Greeley begins publication of the ''New-York Tribune''.〔(''New-York Tribune and New York Daily Tribune'', Library of Congress. )〕 *April 20 – Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" is published in ''Graham's Magazine'' (Philadelphia) (of which he became editor in February). The story will be recognized as the first significant work of detective fiction. *July 17 – ''Punch'' magazine is founded in London by Henry Mayhew and engraver Ebenezer Landells, edited by Mayhew and Mark Lemon. * London publisher Edward Moxon is convicted of blasphemous libel for issuing an edition of Shelley's poem ''Queen Mab'' (1813) with its atheistic passages restored. * Anthony Panizzi and his staff at the British Museum Library in London devise the "Ninety-One Cataloguing Rules". * London Library founded in Pall Mall, London on the initiative of Thomas Carlyle. * Tauchnitz publishers of Leipzig begin their ''Collection of British and American Authors'', an authorized series of cheap paperback reprints which will become popular with anglophone travellers in continental Europe, with Dickens' ''The Pickwick Papers'' and Bulwer-Lytton's ''Pelham''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「1841 in literature」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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