1852 in literature

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Contents 1 Events 2 New books 3 New drama 4 Poetry 5 Non-fiction 6 Births 7 Deaths 8 Awards

[edit] Events

• Pierre Larousse founded his publishing house in Paris, France

[edit] New books

• Basil: A Story of Modern Life - Wilkie Collins
• The Blithedale Romance - Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Canadian Crusoes -Catharine Parr Traill
• The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon - Karl Marx
• Eoline - Caroline Lee Hentz
• Henry Esmond - William Makepeace Thackeray
• Marcus Warland - Caroline Lee Hentz
• Mary Price - G.W.M. Reynolds
• Pierre - Herman Melville
• Queechy - Susan Bogert Warner
• Roughing It in the Bush - Susanna Moodie
• A Sportsman's Sketches - Ivan Turgenev
• Three Years in Europe - William Wells Brown
• Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe

[edit] New drama

• Alexandre Dumas, fils - La Dame aux Caméllias
• Gustav Freytag - Die Journalisten
• Christian Friedrich Hebbel - Agnes Bernauer
• Charles Reade - Masks and Faces

[edit] Poetry

• Théophile Gautier - Emaux et camées

[edit] Non-fiction

• Sir Edward Creasy - Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World
• Kuno Fischer - History of Modern Philosophy
• Leopold von Ranke - History of France

[edit] Births

• February 24 - George Moore, writer (+ 1933)
• March 15 - Lady Gregory, writer (+ 1932)
• October 31 - Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, writer (+ 1930)
• Edwin Austin Abbey - author

[edit] Deaths

• February 17 - Micah Joseph Lebensohn, poet
• February 25 - Thomas Moore, poet
• March 4 - Nikolai Gogol, Russian author
• May 12 - John Richardson, novelist
• November 28 - Ludger Duvernay, printer and publisher
• date unknown - Thomas Griffiths Wainewright, journalist

[edit] Awards