Calendar of Literary Facts
1841
- George Rex Graham founds Graham’s magazine in Philadelphia
- George Ripley establishes the community known as Brook Farm
- Sir James Clark Ross discovers the Ross Sea, off Antarctica
- The slave-ship Creole is taken over by the slaves and sailed to Nassau, in the Bahamas
- Hsadullah Khan Ghalib publishes Divan-i-Ghalib
- Ralph Waldo Emerson publishes Essays
