1839 in literature
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"The Last Scene", engraved by George Cruikshank in 1839 to illustrate William Harrison Ainsworth's serialised novel, Jack Sheppard. The caption reads: "Blueskin cutting down Jack Sheppard". In reality, Joseph "Blueskin" Blake was already dead by the time of Jack Sheppard's execution in 1724.
1841 in literature
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1839 in literature
…magazine. April – Washington Irving begins contributing regularly to The Knickerbocker, and will publish thirty new pieces in the magazine through March 1841 — including "The Creole Village," where he coins the phrase "the almighty dollar". May 31 – An important British constitutional case of Stockdale v…
Illustration by Daniel Vierge of "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", 1870