1851 in literature
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[edit] Events
- November 14 - Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick is published in full, in a single volume, for the first time.
[edit] New books
- Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly - Une Vieille Maltresse
- George Henry Borrow - Lavengro
- Elizabeth Gaskell - Cranford
- Nathaniel Hawthorne - The House of the Seven Gables
- Gottfried Keller - Der Grüne Heinrich
- Sheridan Le Fanu - The Watcher
- Herman Melville - Moby Dick
- John Ruskin - The King of the Golden River
[edit] Poetry
- Heinrich Heine - Romanzero
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - The Golden Legend
- Matthew Arnold - Dover Beach - written not published
[edit] Non-fiction
- John Ruskin - The Stones of Venice, vol 1
[edit] Births
- February 8 - Kate Chopin, American writer
- June 11 - Mary Augusta Ward, author (+ 1920)
[edit] Deaths
- February 1 - Mary Shelley, author
- February 23 - Joanna Baillie, Scottish poet, dramatist
- May 23 - Richard Lalor Sheil, dramatist and journalist
- August 10 - Heinrich Paulus, theologian
- September 14 - James Fenimore Cooper, writer
- October 12 - Augusta Leigh, half-sister and lover of Lord Byron
- December 19 - Henry Luttrell, poet
- date unknown - Abigail Mott, writer