1854 in literature
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The year 1854 in literature involved some significant new books.
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[edit] 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.
[edit] 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
- Mathilde Fibiger - Minona
- 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)
- Charles Reade - The Courier of Lyons
- E. D. E. N. Southworth - The Lost Heiress
- Leo Tolstoy - Boyhood
[edit] New drama
- Émile Augier and Jules Sandeau - Le Gendre de M. Poirier
[edit] Poetry
- R. D. Blackmore - Poems by Melanter
- Coventry Patmore - The Angel in the House
- Alfred Tennyson - The Charge of the Light Brigade
[edit] 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
[edit] Births
- August 2 - Francis Marion Crawford, novelist (died 1909)
- October 16 - Oscar Wilde, author (died 1900)
- Date unknown
- Sarah Grand, author and women's rights advocate (died 1943)
[edit] 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)
