1853 in literature

1853 in literature

The year 1853 in literature involved some significant new books.

Events

*Charles Dickens writes "Bleak House", the first English novel to feature a detective.
*William Wells Brown becomes the first African American novelist to be published.

New books

*Charlotte Brontë - "Villette"
*William Wells Brown - "Clotel; or, The President's Daughter"
*Charles Dickens - "Bleak House"
*Alexandre Dumas, père - "The Countess de Charny"
*Elizabeth Gaskell
**"Cranford"
**"Ruth"
*Caroline Lee Hentz - "Helen and Arthur"
*Victor Hugo - "Les Châtiments"
*Charles Kingsley - "Hypatia"
*Sheridan Le Fanu - "An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street"
*Herman Melville - "Bartleby, the Scrivener"
*Susanna Moodie - "Life in the Clearings"
*Charles Reade - "Peg Woffington"
*Robert Smith Surtees - "Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour"
*George J. Whyte-Melville - "Digby Grand"

New drama

*Gustav Freytag - "Die Journalisten"
*Charles Reade - "Gold"

Poetry

*Manuel António Álvares de Azevedo - "Lira dos Vinte Anos" (published posthumously)
*Matthew Arnold - "The Scholar-Gipsy"

Non-fiction

*Johann Herzog - "Encyclopedia of Protestant Theology"
*Theodor Mommsen - "History of Rome"
*Karl Rosenkrantz - "Aesthetic of Ugliness"
*Hippolyte Taine - "Essai sur les fables de La Fontaine"

Births

* April 23 - Thomas Nelson Page, novelist (+ 1922)
*May 3 - Edgar Watson Howe, author and editor (+ 1937)
* May 14 - Hall Caine, author (+ 1931)
*William Herrick Macaulay

Deaths

*January 3 - János Majláth, poet and historian
*January 26 - Sylvester Judd, novelist
*February 3 - August Kopisch, poet
*April 4 - James Scholefield, classicist
*April 28 - Ludwig Tieck, poet, novelist and translator
*May 3 - Juan Donoso Cortés, political author
*September 5 - Georges Depping, historian
*October 29 - Thomas Jonathan Wooler, satirist
*December 2 - Amelia Opie, poet and novelist

Awards

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