See also: 1840 in literature, other events of 1841, 1842 in literature, list of years in literature.Events
- Horace Greeley begins publication of the New York Tribune.
- Punch magazine is founded in London.
New books
- Adventures of a Coxcomb - Catherine Gore
- Barnaby Rudge - Charles Dickens
- The Bronze Horseman (poem) - Alexander Pushkin
- Charles O'Malley - Charles Lever
- Conformity - Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna
- The Deerslayer - James Fenimore Cooper
- The Demon: An Eastern Tale (poem) - Mikhail Lermontov
- Falsehood and Truth - Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna
- Helen Fleetwood: Tales of the Factories - Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna
- Joseph Rushbroo - Frederick Marryat
- Master Humphrey's Clock - Charles Dickens
- Masterman Ready - Frederick Marryat
- Mathilde - Eugène Sue
- The Murders in the Rue Morgue - Edgar Allan Poe
- Night and Morning - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
- Old St. Paul's - William Harrison Ainsworth
- Season in Paris - Catherine Gore
- Susan Hopley - Catherine Crowe
- A Shady Business - Honoré de Balzac
- Uli der Knecht - Jeremias Gotthelf
New drama
- Dion Boucicault - London Assurance
- Robert Browning - Pippa Passes
Poetry
- James Russell Lowell - A Year's Life
Non-fiction
- Thomas Carlyle - On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History
- Ralph Waldo Emerson - Essays
- Ludwig Feuerbach - Das Wesen des Christentums (The Essence of Christianity)
Births
- February 28 - Jean Mounet-Sully, actor († 1904)
- May 22 - Catulle Mendès, poet († 1909)
- June - Hermann Eduard von Holst, historian († 1904)
- August 4 - William Henry Hudson, naturalist and author († 1922)
- August 18 - Robert Williams Buchanan, author († 1901)
- October 6 - Clement Scott, critic and travel writer († 1916)
- November 8 - John Charles Dent, journalist and historian († 1888)
- November 13 - William Black, novelist († 1898)
Deaths
- April - James Browne, journalist and critic
- May 7 - Thomas Barnes, editor of The Times
- May 20 - Joseph Blanco White, poet and theologian
- July 27 - Mikhail Lermontov, poet
- August 11 - Johann Friedrich Herbart, philosopher
- September 16 - Thomas John Dibdin, dramatist
- October 31 - Georg Anton Friedrich Ast, philologist and philosopher
- December 12 - Denis-Luc Frayssinous, theologian
Awards
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