1853 in literature

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... 1843 ^. 1844 ^. 1845 ^. 1846 ^. 1847 ^. 1848 ^. 1849 ... 1850 1851 1852 -1853- 1854 1855 1856 ... 1857 ^. 1858 ^. 1859 ^. 1860 ^. 1861 ^. 1862 ^. 1863 ... In poetry: 1850 1851 1852 -1853- 1854 1855 1856
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The year 1853 in literature involved some significant new books.

Events

September - The 20th and final instalment of Charles Dickens's Bleak House is published, followed shortly by its book publication.
November 25 - English poet Alfred Tennyson settles at Farringford House on the Isle of Wight.^[1]
Poet Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald completes the Estonian national epic Kalevipoeg but it is unpublishable at this time in its original form due to Russian censorship.
Abraham Mapu's historical novel Ahavat Zion ("Love of Zion"), set in ancient Israel and self-published in Kaunas (Lithuania), is the first narrative novel in the Hebrew language.

April 23 - Thomas Nelson Page, novelist (died 1922)
April 27 - Jules Lemaître, French dramatist and critic (died 1914)
May 3 - Edgar Watson Howe, author and editor (died 1937)
May 14 - Hall Caine, novelist and playwright (died 1931)
date unknown - Dharmavaram Ramakrishnamacharyulu, Telugu dramatist and playwright (died 1912)

January 3 - János Majláth, Hungarian poet and historian, 68
January 26 - Sylvester Judd, novelist, 39
February 3 - August Kopisch, German poet, 53
April 4 - James Scholefield, classicist, 63
April 28 - Ludwig Tieck, German poet, novelist and translator, 79
May 3 - Juan Donoso Cortés, Spanish diplomat and writer, 43
June 4 - Pavel Katenin, Russian classicist poet, dramatist, and literary critic, 60
September 5 - Georges Depping, German-French historian, 69
October 29 - Thomas Jonathan Wooler, satirist, 67
December 2 - Amelia Opie, poet and novelist, 84

↑ Pinion, F. B. (1990). "1853". A Tennyson Chronology. Basingstoke: Macmillan. p. 66. ISBN 0-333-46020-0.
↑ Its full title is Nouvelle Biographie Générale, depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu'a nos jours, avec les renseignements bibliographiques et l'indication des sources a consulter ("New General Biography, from earliest times to the present, with bibliographic information and details of sources to consult").

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