1852 in literature
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The year 1852 in literature involved some significant new books.

New books

  • Manuel Antônio de Almeida
    Manuel Antônio de Almeida
    Manuel Antônio de Almeida was a Brazilian writer, medician and teacher. He is famous for the book Memoirs of a Police Sergeant, written under the pen name Um Brasileiro...

     - Memoirs of a Police Sergeant
    Memoirs of a Police Sergeant
    Memoirs of a Police Sergeant is a novel written by the Brazilian author Manuel Antônio de Almeida. It was first published in 1852. It tells the colorful story of a problem child that grows up into an immoral, reckless young man until he is arrested by the police and given the chance of becoming an...

  • Wilkie Collins
    Wilkie Collins
    William Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and author of short stories. He was very popular during the Victorian era and wrote 30 novels, more than 60 short stories, 14 plays, and over 100 non-fiction pieces...

     - Basil: A Story of Modern Life
  • Robert Criswell - "Uncle Tom's Cabin" Contrasted with Buckingham Hall, the Planter's Home
    "Uncle Tom's Cabin" Contrasted with Buckingham Hall, the Planter's Home
    "Uncle Tom's Cabin" Contrasted with Buckingham Hall, the Planter's Home is an 1852 novel by Robert Criswell, combining elements of Anti-Tom literature and romantic fiction.- Overview :...

  • Mary Eastman - Aunt Phillis's Cabin
    Aunt Phillis's Cabin
    Aunt Phillis's Cabin; or, Southern Life As It Is by Mary Henderson Eastman is a plantation fiction novel, and is perhaps the most read anti-Tom novel in American literature. It was published by Lippincott, Grambo & Co of Philadelphia in 1852 as a response to Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, published...

  • Nathaniel Hawthorne
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist and short story writer.Nathaniel Hawthorne was born in 1804 in the city of Salem, Massachusetts to Nathaniel Hathorne and the former Elizabeth Clarke Manning. His ancestors include John Hathorne, a judge during the Salem Witch Trials...

    • The Blithedale Romance
      The Blithedale Romance
      The Blithedale Romance is Nathaniel Hawthorne's third major romance. In Hawthorne , Henry James called it "the lightest, the brightest, the liveliest" of Hawthorne's "unhumorous fictions."-Plot summary:...

    • The Snow-Image, and Other Twice-Told Tales
      The Snow-Image, and Other Twice-Told Tales
      The Snow-Image, and Other Twice-Told Tales was the final collection of short stories published by Nathaniel Hawthorne in his lifetime, appearing in 1852.-Contents:* Preface * "The Snow-Image" * "The Great Stone Face"...

  • Baynard R. Hall - Frank Freeman's Barber Shop
    Frank Freeman's Barber Shop
    Frank Freeman's Barber Shop is an 1852 plantation fiction novel written by the Reverend Baynard Rush Hall.- Overview :Frank Freeman's Barber Shop is an example of the numerous anti-Tom novels produced in the Southern United States in response to the publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet...

  • Caroline Lee Hentz
    Caroline Lee Hentz
    Caroline Lee Whiting Hentz was an American novelist and author, most noted for her opposition to the abolitionist movement and her widely-read rebuttal to the popular anti-slavery book, Uncle Tom's Cabin...

    • Eoline
    • Marcus Warland
  • Herman Melville
    Herman Melville
    Herman Melville was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet. He is best known for his novel Moby-Dick and the posthumous novella Billy Budd....

     - Pierre
    Pierre: or, The Ambiguities
    Pierre: or, The Ambiguities is a novel written by Herman Melville, and published in 1852 by Harper & Brothers.The publication of Pierre was a critical and financial disaster for Melville. It was universally condemned for both its morals and its style...

  • Susanna Moodie
    Susanna Moodie
    Susanna Moodie, born Strickland , was an English-born Canadian author who wrote about her experiences as a settler in Canada, which was a British colony at the time.-Biography:...

     - Roughing It in the Bush
    Roughing it in the Bush
    Roughing It in the Bush is an account of life as a Canadian settler by Susanna Moodie. Moodie immigrated to Canada West, near modern-day Peterborough, Ontario during the 1830s. At the suggestion of her editor, she wrote a "guide" to settler life for British subjects considering coming to Canada...

  • Charles Jacobs Peterson (as J. Thornton Randolph) - The Cabin and Parlor; or, Slaves and Masters
    The Cabin and Parlor; or, Slaves and Masters
    The Cabin and Parlor; or, Slaves and Masters is an 1852 novel written by Charles Jacobs Peterson under the pseudonym of J. Thornton Randolph.- Overview :...

  • George W. M. Reynolds
    George W. M. Reynolds
    George William MacArthur Reynolds was a British author and journalist.He was born in Sandwich, Kent, the son of Captain Sir George Reynolds, a flag officer in the Royal Navy. Reynolds was educated first at Dr. Nance's school in Ashford, Kent, and then passed on to the Royal Military College,...

     - Mary Price
  • Caroline Rush - The North and the South; or, Slavery and Its Contrasts
    The North and the South; or, Slavery and Its Contrasts
    The North and the South; or, Slavery and Its Contrasts is an 1852 plantation fiction novel by Caroline Rush, and among the first examples of the genre, alongside others such as Aunt Phillis's Cabin by Mary Henderson Eastman and Life at the South; or, "Uncle Tom's Cabin" As It Is by W.L.G...

  • W.L.G. Smith - Life at the South; or, "Uncle Tom's Cabin" As It Is
    Life at the South; or, "Uncle Tom's Cabin" As It Is
    Life at the South; or, "Uncle Tom's Cabin" As It Is is an 1852 plantation fiction novel written by W.L.G...

  • Harriet Beecher Stowe
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    Harriet Beecher Stowe was an American abolitionist and author. Her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin was a depiction of life for African-Americans under slavery; it reached millions as a novel and play, and became influential in the United States and United Kingdom...

     - Uncle Tom's Cabin
    Uncle Tom's Cabin
    Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel "helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War", according to Will Kaufman....

  • William Makepeace Thackeray
    William Makepeace Thackeray
    William Makepeace Thackeray was an English novelist of the 19th century. He was famous for his satirical works, particularly Vanity Fair, a panoramic portrait of English society.-Biography:...

    • The History of Henry Esmond
      The History of Henry Esmond
      The History of Henry Esmond is a historical novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, originally published in 1852. The book tells the story of the early life of Henry Esmond, a colonel in the service of Queen Anne of England...

    • Men's Wives
      Men's Wives
      Men's Wives is a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray...

  • Leo Tolstoy
    Leo Tolstoy
    Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy was a Russian writer who primarily wrote novels and short stories. Later in life, he also wrote plays and essays. His two most famous works, the novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina, are acknowledged as two of the greatest novels of all time and a pinnacle of realist...

     - Childhood
    Childhood (novel)
    Childhood is the first published novel by Leo Tolstoy, released under the initials L. N. in the November 1852 issue of the popular Russian literary journal The Contemporary....

  • Catharine Parr Traill
    Catharine Parr Traill
    Catharine Parr Traill, born Strickland was an English-Canadian author who wrote about life as a settler in Canada.-Biography:...

     - Canadian Crusoes
    Canadian Crusoes
    Canadian Crusoes: A Tale of the Rice Lake Plains is a novel by Catharine Parr Traill. Written after The Backwoods of Canada , it is her second Canadian book. It was first published in 1852 by London publisher Arthur Hall, Virtue, and Company...

  • Ivan Turgenev
    Ivan Turgenev
    Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev was a Russian novelist, short story writer, and playwright. His first major publication, a short story collection entitled A Sportsman's Sketches, is a milestone of Russian Realism, and his novel Fathers and Sons is regarded as one of the major works of 19th-century...

     - A Sportsman's Sketches
    A Sportsman's Sketches
    A Sportsman's Sketches was an 1852 collection of short stories by Ivan Turgenev. It was the first major writing that gained him recognition...

  • Susan Bogert Warner  - Queechy

New drama

  • Alexandre Dumas, fils
    Alexandre Dumas, fils
    Alexandre Dumas, fils was a French author and dramatist. He was the son of Alexandre Dumas, père, also a writer and playwright.-Biography:...

     - La Dame aux Caméllias
    The Lady of the Camellias
    The Lady of the Camellias is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, fils, first published in 1848, and subsequently adapted for the stage. The Lady of the Camellias premiered at the Théâtre du Vaudeville in Paris, France on February 2, 1852. The play was an instant success, and Giuseppe Verdi immediately set...

  • Gustav Freytag
    Gustav Freytag
    Gustav Freytag was a German novelist and playwright.-Life:Freytag was born in Kreuzburg in Silesia...

     - Die Journalisten
  • Christian Friedrich Hebbel
    Christian Friedrich Hebbel
    Christian Friedrich Hebbel , was a German poet and dramatist.-Biography:Hebbel was born at Wesselburen in Ditmarschen, Holstein, the son of a bricklayer. He was educated at the Gelehrtenschule des Johanneums...

     - Agnes Bernauer
  • Charles Reade
    Charles Reade
    Charles Reade was an English novelist and dramatist, best known for The Cloister and the Hearth.-Life:Charles Reade was born at Ipsden, Oxfordshire to John Reade and Anne Marie Scott-Waring; William Winwood Reade the influential historian , was his nephew. He studied at Magdalen College, Oxford,...

     - Masks and Faces

Non-fiction

  • Juan Bautista Alberdi
    Juan Bautista Alberdi
    Juan Bautista Alberdi was an Argentine political theorist and diplomat. Although he lived most of his life in exile in Montevideo and Chile, he was one of the most influential Argentine liberals of his age.-Biography:...

     - Bases and points of Departure for Argentine Political organization.
  • William Wells Brown
    William Wells Brown
    William Wells Brown was a prominent African-American abolitionist lecturer, novelist, playwright, and historian. Born into slavery in the Southern United States, Brown escaped to the North in 1834, where he worked for abolitionist causes and was a prolific writer...

     - Three Years in Europe
  • Sir Edward Creasy - Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World
  • Kuno Fischer
    Kuno Fischer
    Kuno Fischer, born Ernst Kuno Berthold Fischer, was a German philosopher, a historian of philosophy and a critic.-Biography:After studying philosophy at Leipzig and Halle,...

     - History of Modern Philosophy
  • Victor Hugo
    Victor Hugo
    Victor-Marie Hugo was a Frenchpoet, playwright, novelist, essayist, visual artist, statesman, human rights activist and exponent of the Romantic movement in France....

     - Napoléon le Petit
    Napoléon le Petit
    Napoleon le Petit was an influential political pamphlet by Victor Hugo which condemned the reign of Napoleon III, Emperor of the French. Hugo lived in exile in Guernsey for most of Napoleon III's reign, and his criticism of the monarch was significant as he was one of the most prominent Frenchmen...

  • Karl Marx
    Karl Marx
    Karl Heinrich Marx was a German philosopher, economist, sociologist, historian, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. His ideas played a significant role in the development of social science and the socialist political movement...

     - The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon
    The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon
    Der 18te Brumaire des Louis Napoleon was written by Karl Marx between December 1851 and March 1852, and originally published in 1852 in Die Revolution, a German-language monthly magazine published in New York and established by Joseph Weydemeyer...

  • Leopold von Ranke
    Leopold von Ranke
    Leopold von Ranke was a German historian, considered one of the founders of modern source-based history. Ranke set the standards for much of later historical writing, introducing such ideas as reliance on primary sources , an emphasis on narrative history and especially international politics .-...

     - History of France
  • Roget's Thesaurus
    Roget's Thesaurus
    Roget's Thesaurus is a widely-used English language thesaurus, created by Dr. Peter Mark Roget in 1805 and released to the public on 29 April 1852. The original edition had 15,000 words, and each new edition has been larger...

    (first edition)

Births

  • February 24 - George Moore
    George Moore (novelist)
    George Augustus Moore was an Irish novelist, short-story writer, poet, art critic, memoirist and dramatist. Moore came from a Roman Catholic landed family who lived at Moore Hall in Carra, County Mayo. He originally wanted to be a painter, and studied art in Paris during the 1870s...

    , writer (d. 1933)
  • March 15 - Lady Gregory, writer (d. 1932)
  • April 23 - Edwin Markham
    Edwin Markham
    Charles Edwin Anson Markham was an American poet. From 1923 to 1931 he was Poet Laureate of Oregon.-Life:Edwin Markham was born in Oregon City, Oregon and was the youngest of 10 children; his parents divorced shortly after his birth...

    , poet (d. 1940)
  • October 31 - Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, writer (d. 1930)

Deaths

  • February 17 - Micah Joseph Lebensohn
    Micah Joseph Lebensohn
    Micah Joseph Lebensohn Russian Hebrew poet.His father, the poet Abraham Bär Lebensohn, implanted in him the love of Hebrew poetry, and Micah Joseph began very early to translate and to compose Hebrew songs. He suffered from consumption during the last five or six years of his short life...

    , poet
  • February 25 - Thomas Moore
    Thomas Moore
    Thomas Moore was an Irish poet, singer, songwriter, and entertainer, now best remembered for the lyrics of The Minstrel Boy and The Last Rose of Summer. He was responsible, with John Murray, for burning Lord Byron's memoirs after his death...

    , poet
  • March 4 - Nikolai Gogol
    Nikolai Gogol
    Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol was a Ukrainian-born Russian dramatist and novelist.Considered by his contemporaries one of the preeminent figures of the natural school of Russian literary realism, later critics have found in Gogol's work a fundamentally romantic sensibility, with strains of Surrealism...

    , Russian author
  • May 12 - John Richardson
    John Richardson (author)
    John Richardson was a British Army officer and the first Canadian-born novelist to achieve international recognition....

    , novelist
  • November 28 - Ludger Duvernay
    Ludger Duvernay
    Ludger Duvernay was born in Verchères, Quebec, Canada.He was a printer by profession and published a number of newspapers including the Gazette des Trois-Rivières, the first newspaper in Lower Canada outside of Quebec City and Montreal, and also La Minerve, which supported the Parti patriote and...

    , printer and publisher
  • date unknown - Thomas Griffiths Wainewright
    Thomas Griffiths Wainewright
    Thomas Griffiths Wainewright was an English artist, writer and criminal, widely believed to have been a multiple poisoner.-Early life:...

    , journalist
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