1854 in literature

1854 in literature

The year 1854 in literature involved some significant new books.

Events

* 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.

New books

*Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly -"L'Ensorcelée"
*William Wells Brown - "Sketches of Places and People Abroad"
*John Esten Cooke - "The Virginia Comedians"
*Wilkie Collins - "Hide and Seek"
*Maria Cummins - "The Lamplighter"
*Charles Dickens - "Hard Times"
*Fanny Fern - "Ruth Hall"
*Francesco Domenico Guerrazzi - "Beatrice Cenci"
*Nathaniel Hawthorne - "Mosses from an Old Manse"
*Caroline Lee Hentz - "The Planter's Northern Bride"
*Mary Jane Holmes - "Tempest and Sunshine"
*Mary Russell Mitford - "Atherton"
*Gérard de Nerval - "Les Filles du feu" (short stories)
*E. D. E. N. Southworth - "The Lost Heiress"
*Leo Tolstoy - "Boyhood"
*Charlotte Mary Yonge - "The Heir of Redclyffe"

New drama

*Émile Augier and Jules Sandeau - "Le Gendre de M. Poirier"

Poetry

*R. D. Blackmore - "Poems by Melanter"
*Coventry Patmore - "The Angel in the House"
*Alfred Tennyson - "The Charge of the Light Brigade"

Non-fiction

*George Boole - "The Laws of Thought"
*Ludwig Feuerbach - "The Essence of Christianity"
*Theodor Mommsen - "Römische Geschichte"
*Henry David Thoreau - "Walden or Life in the Woods"

Births

* Sarah Grand, author and women's rights advocate (+ 1943)
* October 16 - Oscar Wilde (+ 1900)

Deaths

*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)
*December 9 - Almeida Garrett, poet, novelist and dramatist (born 1799)
*"date unknown"
**Gottschalk Eduard Guhrauer, philologist and biographer (born 1809)
**John Kitto, Biblical commentator (born 1804)
**Abraham John Valpy, printer and publisher (born 1787)

Awards

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