1853 in literature
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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.
- Uriah Maggs establishes what will become the antiquarian bookselling business of Maggs Bros Ltd in London.
New books
- 'Cuthbert Bede' (Edward Bradley) - The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green
- Charlotte Brontë - Villette
- William Wells Brown - Clotel; or, The President's Daughter
- Martha Haines Butt - Antifanaticism: A Tale of the South
- Philip J. Cozans - Little Eva: The Flower of the South
- Charles Dickens - Bleak House
- Alexandre Dumas, père - La Comtesse de Charny
- Elizabeth Gaskell
- Sarah J. Hale - Liberia; or, Mr. Peyton's Experiments
- Caroline Lee Hentz - Helen and Arthur
- Charles Kingsley - Hypatia
- Sheridan Le Fanu - An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street
- Maria McIntosh - The Lofty and the Lowly, or Good in All and None All Good
- Abraham Mapu - Ahavat Zion
- Herman Melville - Bartleby, the Scrivener
- Susanna Moodie - Life in the Clearings
- Gérard de Nerval - Sylvie
- J. W. Page - Uncle Robin, in His Cabin in Virginia, and Tom Without One in Boston
- Charles Reade
- George Sand - Les Maîtres sonneurs
- Robert Smith Surtees - Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour
- Vidi - Mr. Frank, the Underground Mail-Agent
- George J. Whyte-Melville - Digby Grand
- Charlotte M. Yonge - The Heir of Redclyffe
New drama
- Gustav Freytag - Die Journalisten
- Charles Reade - Gold
- George Sand - Le Pressoir
Poetry
- Álvares de Azevedo - Lira dos Vinte Anos (published posthumously)
- Matthew Arnold - The Scholar Gipsy
- Victor Hugo - Les Châtiments
Non-fiction
- Judge Edmonds, George Dexter - Spiritualism
- Johann Jakob Herzog - Real-Encyklopädie für protestantische Theologie und Kirche ("Encyclopedia of Protestant Theology") begins publication
- Ferdinand Hoefer (ed.) - Nouvelle Biographie Générale, vol. 1[2]
- Solomon Northup - Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of Solomon Northup, citizen of New-York, kidnapped in Washington city in 1841, and rescued in 1853, from a cotton plantation near the Red River in Louisiana
- Karl Rosenkrantz - Aesthetic of Ugliness (Aesthetik des Hässlichen)
- Hippolyte Taine - Essai sur les fables de La Fontaine
Births
- April 17 – Mrs. Henry Clarke (Amy Clarke), English historical novelist and children's writer (died 1908)
- April 23 – Thomas Nelson Page, American writer and lawyer (died 1922)
- April 27 – Jules Lemaître, French dramatist and critic (died 1914)
- May 3 – E. W. Howe (Edgar Watson Howe), American author and editor (died 1937)
- May 14 – Hall Caine, Manx novelist and playwright (died 1931)
- Unknown date – Dharmavaram Ramakrishnamacharyulu, Telugu dramatist (died 1912)
Deaths
- January 26 – Sylvester Judd, American novelist (born 1813)
- February 3 – August Kopisch, German poet (born 1799)
- April 4 – James Scholefield, classicist (born 1789)
- April 28 – Ludwig Tieck, German poet, novelist and translator (born 1773)
- May 3 – Juan Donoso Cortés, Spanish diplomat and writer (born 1809)
- June 4 – Pavel Katenin, Russian classicist, poet and dramatist (born 1792)
- September 5 – Georges Depping, German-French historian (born 1784)
- October 29 – Thomas Jonathan Wooler, English satirist (born 1786)
- December 2 – Amelia Opie, English poet and novelist (born 1769)
Awards
References
- ↑ 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").