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| *"[[The Black Spider]]" by Jeremias Gotthelf | *"[[The Black Spider]]" by Jeremias Gotthelf | ||
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"And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all." --"The Masque of the Red Death (1842) - Edgar Allan Poe |
Image:Richard Dadd - Come unto These Yellow Sands.jpg
Come unto These Yellow Sands (1842) by Richard Dadd. Images of nude and semi-nude fairies dancing in rings became popular during the Victorian era.
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1842 (MDCCCXLII) is the 1842nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 842nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 42nd year of the 19th century, and the 3rd year of the 1840s decade.
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Art and culture
- Charles Baudelaire inherits his father's fortune
- Charles Baudelaire meets Jeanne Duval
- The term Dinosauria is coined.
- The first issue of the The Illustrated London News is published.
Literature
- "The Quadroons", a short story by Lydia Marie Child on the tragic mulatto trope
- "The Black Spider" by Jeremias Gotthelf
- "The Mystery of Marie Roget" by Poe
- The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe
- Gaspard de la nuit by Aloysius Bertrand first published posthumously
- Zanoni by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
- Nikolai Gogol
- Eugène Sue - The Mysteries of Paris
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)
- September 4 - Peter Fendi, German artist (b. 1796)
- November 17 - John Varley, watercolour painter
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