1852 in literature
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The year 1852 in literature involved some significant new books.
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[edit] Events
- Pierre Larousse founded his publishing house in Paris, France.
[edit] New books
- Manuel Antônio de Almeida - Memoirs of a Police Sergeant
- Wilkie Collins - Basil: A Story of Modern Life
- Robert Criswell - "Uncle Tom's Cabin" Contrasted with Buckingham Hall, the Planter's Home
- Mary Eastman - Aunt Phillis's Cabin
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Baynard R. Hall - Frank Freeman's Barber Shop
- Caroline Lee Hentz
- Herman Melville - Pierre
- Susanna Moodie - Roughing It in the Bush
- Charles Jacobs Peterson (as J. Thornton Randolph) - The Cabin and Parlor; or, Slaves and Masters
- George W. M. Reynolds - Mary Price
- Caroline Rush - The North and the South; or, Slavery and Its Contrasts
- W.L.G. Smith - Life at the South; or, "Uncle Tom's Cabin" As It Is
- Harriet Beecher Stowe - Uncle Tom's Cabin
- William Makepeace Thackeray
- Leo Tolstoy - Childhood
- Catharine Parr Traill - Canadian Crusoes
- Ivan Turgenev - A Sportsman's Sketches
- Susan Bogert Warner - Queechy
[edit] New drama
- Alexandre Dumas, fils - La Dame aux Caméllias
- Gustav Freytag - Die Journalisten
- Christian Friedrich Hebbel - Agnes Bernauer
- Charles Reade - Masks and Faces
[edit] Poetry
- Théophile Gautier - Emaux et camées
[edit] Non-fiction
- Juan Bautista Alberdi - Bases and points of Departure for Argentine Political organization.
- William Wells Brown - Three Years in Europe
- Sir Edward Creasy - Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World
- Kuno Fischer - History of Modern Philosophy
- Victor Hugo - Napoléon le Petit
- Karl Marx - The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon
- Leopold von Ranke - History of France
- Roget's Thesaurus (first edition)
[edit] Births
- February 24 - George Moore, writer (d. 1933)
- March 15 - Lady Gregory, writer (died 1932)
- April 23 - Edwin Markham, poet (died 1940)
- October 31 - Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, writer (died 1930)
[edit] Deaths
- February 17 - Micah Joseph Lebensohn, poet
- February 25 - Thomas Moore, poet
- March 4 - Nikolai Gogol, Russian author
- May 12 - John Richardson, novelist
- November 28 - Ludger Duvernay, printer and publisher
- date unknown - Thomas Griffiths Wainewright, journalist
