1853 in literature

none 1853 literature poetry This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1853. Events thumb|Newspaper illustration from abridged version of Villette, 1909 January 28 – Charlotte Brontë's novel Villette appears (as by Currer Bell), its publication having been delayed in order to allow Ruth, by her friend Elizabeth Gaskell, to be given a head start in the press.Miriam Allott The Brontës: The Critical Heritage https://books.google.com/books?id=CV8P1Lt3-s4C&pg=PA171 1995 Psychology Press 978-0-415-13461-3 171 September – The 20th and final instalment of Charles Dickens's Bleak House is published, followed shortly by its book publication. November – Poet Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald completes the Estonian national epic Kalevipoeg, but Russian censorship makes the work impossible to publish.István Balogh Ancient Cultures of the Uralian Peoples https://books.google.com/books?id=5K4KAQAAIAAJ 1976 Corvina Press 978-963-13-3019-9 276 November 25 – English poet Alfred Tennyson settles at Farringford House on the Isle of Wight.F. B. Pinion 1853 A Tennyson Chronology Basingstoke Macmillan 1990 0-333-46020-0 66 https://archive.org/details/tennysonchronolo0000pini/page/66 December 27 – Charles Dickens gives the first of his public readings of his own works, in Birmingham Town Hall (England) to the Industrial and Literary Institute, repeated three days later to an audience of working people and including an adaptation of A Christmas Carol; these are very successful and Dickens continues public readings until the year of his death.Slater, Michael (2009). Charles Dickens. New Haven; London: Yale University Press. 978-0-300-16552-4. p. 353.https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2004/jan/31/theatre.classics Matt Shinn on Charles Dickens's stage performances Matt Shinn 2004-12-31 The Guardian Londonhttps://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/local-news/night-dickens-read-christmas-carol-6403622 The glorious night Dickens held Birmingham spellbound with his tale of Scrooge Birmingham Live 2013-12-13 Birmingham MailDickens' Public Readings: The Performer and the Novelist Philip Collins Studies in the Novel 1 1969 118–132 unknown dates Abraham Mapu's historical novel Ahavat Zion ("Love of Zion"), set in ancient Israel and self-published in Kaunas (Lithuania), is the first narrative novel in the Hebrew language.Christopher John Murray Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, 1760-1850 https://books.google.com/books?id=wgS2nYRIuUEC&pg=PA662 2004 Taylor & Francis 978-1-57958-422-1 662 Uriah Maggs establishes what will become the antiquarian bookselling business of Maggs Bros Ltd in London.The Bookseller https://books.google.com/books?id=EhNPAAAAIAAJ 1953 J. Whitaker 754 New books Fiction Edward Bradley (as Cuthbert Bede) – The Adventures of Mr. Verdant GreenCuthbert Bede The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green https://books.google.com/books?id=hzcdSAAACAAJ June 2008 Lightning Source Incorporated 978-1-4378-2529-9 Charlotte Brontë – Villette William Wells Brown – Clotel; or, The President's Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United StatesGenevieve Fabre Robert O'Meally https://books.google.com/books?id=IYgDf6F3wM4C&pg=PA111 History and Memory in African-American Culture 8 December 1994 Oxford University Press 978-0-19-802455-2 111 Martha Haines Butt – Antifanaticism: A Tale of the South Charles Dickens – Bleak House Alexandre Dumas, père – La Comtesse de CharnyAlexandre Dumas La Comtesse de Charny https://books.google.com/books?id=_nqAqn9gNJYC&pg=PR12 1989 Editions Complexe 978-2-87027-316-6 12 Elizabeth Gaskell Cranford (serialization concludes and book publication) Ruth Sarah J. Hale – Liberia; or, Mr. Peyton's Experiments Caroline Lee Hentz – Helen and Arthur Charles Kingsley – Hypatia Sheridan Le Fanu – An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street Maria McIntosh – The Lofty and the Lowly, or Good in All and None All Good Abraham Mapu – Ahavat Zion Herman Melville – "Bartleby, the Scrivener" Susanna Moodie – Life in the Clearings Gérard de Nerval – Sylvie J. W. Page – Uncle Robin, in His Cabin in Virginia, and Tom Without One in Boston Charles Reade Christie Johnstone Peg Woffington George Sand – Les Maîtres sonneurs Elizabeth Sara Sheppard – Charles Auchester Robert Smith Surtees – Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour Vidi – Mr. Frank, the Underground Mail-Agent George J. Whyte-Melville – Digby Grand Charlotte M. Yonge – The Heir of Redclyffe Children and young people Philip J. Cozans – Little Eva: The Flower of the South Fanny Fern – Little Ferns for Fanny's Little Friends Drama Agha Hasan Amanat – Inder SabhaThe Encyclopaedia Of Indian Literature, Volume 2 Amaresh Datta Sahitya Akademi, 2006 978-81-260-1194-0 https://books.google.com/books?id=zB4n3MVozbUC Gustav Freytag – Die Journalisten Alexander Ostrovsky – The Poor Bride (Бедная невеста, Bednaya nevesta) Revyakin, A. I. 1949 http://az.lib.ru/o/ostrowskij_a_n/text_0033.shtml The Poor Bride. Commentary The Complete A.N. Ostrovsky. Volume 1. Plays 1847-1854. Khudozhestvennaya literature Publishers, 1949 2012-03-01 Charles Reade – Gold George Sand – Le Pressoir Poetry Álvares de Azevedo (died 1852) – Lira dos Vinte Anos Matthew Arnold – "The Scholar Gipsy" Victor Hugo – Les Châtiments Non-fiction Manuel Antonio Carreño – Manual de Carreño Arthur de Gobineau – An Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races (Essai sur l'inégalité des races humaines), vol. 1 Judge Edmonds, George Dexter – Spiritualism Johann Jakob Herzog – Real-Encyklopädie für protestantische Theologie und Kirche (Encyclopedia of Protestant Theology and Churches) begins publication Ferdinand Hoefer (ed.) – Nouvelle Biographie Générale, vol. 1Its full title is Nouvelle Biographie Générale, depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu'à nos jours, avec les renseignements bibliographiques et l'indication des sources a consulter ("New General Biography, from earliest times to the present, with bibliographic information and details of sources to consult"). George Holyoake – Christianity and Secularism. Report of a Debate between the Rev. Bruin Grant B.A. and George Jacob Holyoake Esq.Text: Retrieved 13 April 2017. Solomon Northup – Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of Solomon Northup, citizen of New-York, kidnapped in Washington city in 1841, and rescued in 1853, from a cotton plantation near the Red River in Louisiana Karl Rosenkrantz – Aesthetic of Ugliness (Aesthetik des Hässlichen) Hippolyte Taine – Essai sur les fables de La Fontaine Otto von Böhtlingk – Sanskrit-Wörterbuch (Sanskrit Dictionary) begins publication Births January – Dharmavaram Ramakrishnamacharyulu, Telugu dramatist (died 1912) February 22 – Annie Le Porte Diggs, Canadian-born American activist, journalist, author (died 1916) April 17 – Mrs. Henry Clarke (Amy Key), English historical novelist and children's writer (died 1908) April 23 – Thomas Nelson Page, American writer and lawyer (died 1922) April 27 – Jules Lemaître, French dramatist and critic (died 1914) May 3 – E. W. Howe (Edgar Watson Howe), American author and editor (died 1937) May 14 – Hall Caine, British novelist and playwright (died 1931) May 14 – Ella H. Brockway Avann, American educator and writer (died 1899) July 27 – Clementina Black, English novelist and political writer (died 1922) September 14 – Radu Rosetti, Romanian politician, historical novelist and memoirist (died 1926) November 1 – Lie Kim Hok, Dutch East Indian Chinese journalist, novelist, poet and translator (died 1912) Deaths January 26 – Sylvester Judd, American novelist (born 1813) February 3 – August Kopisch, German poet (born 1799) April 4 – James Scholefield, English classicist (born 1789) April 28 – Ludwig Tieck, German poet, novelist and translator (born 1773) May 3 – Juan Donoso Cortés, Spanish diplomat and writer (born 1809) June 4 – Pavel Katenin, Russian classicist, poet and dramatist (born 1792) September 1 – Jacob Bailey Moore, American journalist and historical writer (born 1797) September 5 – Georges Depping, German-French historian (born 1784) October 29 – Thomas Jonathan Wooler, English satirist (born 1786) December 2 – Amelia Opie, English poet and novelist (born 1769) Awards Newdigate Prize – Samuel Harvey Reynolds, "The Ruins of Egyptian Thebes"University Oxford Oxford University Calendar for the Year 1876 https://books.google.com/books?id=3i4q4WcSN9kC&pg=RA2-PA65 1876 at the Clarendon Press 2 References 30em External links Published 1853 Books at Goodreads 1853 Books at Goodreads