- 1853 in literature
The year 1853 in literature involved some significant new books.
Events
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Charles Dickens writes "Bleak House ", the first English novel to feature a detective.
*William Wells Brown becomes the firstAfrican American novelist to be published.New books
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 novelistAwards
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