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