1854 in literature

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The year 1854 in literature involved some significant literary events and new books.

Events

April 1–August 12 - Charles Dickens's novel Hard Times is serialised in his magazine Household Words. From September 2, it is followed in the magazine by Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South, another social novel based in the Lancashire manufacturing district.
The Polyglotta Africana, an early classification of African languages based on field work under freed slaves in Freetown, Sierra Leone, is published by Sigismund Wilhelm Koelle.

George Boole - The Laws of Thought
Ludwig Feuerbach - The Essence of Christianity (Das Wesen des Christentums)
Elisha Kane - The U.S. Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin: a Personal Narrative^[2]
Eliphas Levi - Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie ("Dogma and Ritual of High Magic") vol. 1, Dogme
Theodor Mommsen - History of Rome (Römische Geschichte) vol. 1
Henry David Thoreau - Walden, or Life in the Woods

March 13 - Kolachalam Srinivasa Rao, Indian dramatist (died 1919)
June 10
- François, Vicomte de Curel, French dramatist (died 1928)
- Sarah Grand, author and women's rights advocate (died 1943)
August 2 - Francis Marion Crawford, novelist (died 1909)
October 16 - Oscar Wilde, poet, dramatist and wit (died 1900)

January 5 - Gottschalk Eduard Guhrauer, German philologist and biographer (born 1809)
February 4 - George Watterston, librarian of Congress (born 1783)
April 3 - John Wilson, poet and journalist (born 1785)
April 7 - Pierre François Tissot, historian and memoirist (born 1768)
April 16 - Julia Nyberg, Swedish poet (born 1784)
April 24 - Gabriele Rossetti, poet (born 1783)
October 14 - Samuel Phillips, journalist (born 1814)
November 25 - John Kitto, Biblical commentator (born 1804)
December 9 - Almeida Garrett, poet, novelist and dramatist (born 1799)
date unknown - Abraham John Valpy, printer and publisher (born 1787)

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