1852 in literature

none July 2013 1852 literature poetry This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1852. Events thumb February 2 – Alexandre Dumas, fils's stage adaptation of his 1848 novel La Dame aux caméllias is premièred at the Théâtre du Vaudeville in Paris. Eugénie Doche fr created the role of Marguerite Gautier, opposite Charles Fechter as Armand Duval. Doche reportedly played the role of Marguerite for 617 times before her eventual death in 1900.October 1901 The First Lady with the Camelias https://books.google.com/books?id=SexDAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA18-IA94 Theatre Magazine 14–16 2017-05-12 Thorold W. J. Hornblow (Jr) Arthur Maxwell Perriton Beach Stewart February 24 – Nikolai Gogol burns some of his manuscripts, including most of the second part of Dead Souls, telling acquaintances the action is a practical joke played on him by the Devil. He takes to his bed and dies a few days later. Gogol was mourned in the Saint Tatiana church at the Moscow University before his burial and then buried at the Danilov Monastery, close to his fellow Slavophile Aleksey Khomyakov. His grave was marked by a large stone (Golgotha), topped by a Russian Orthodox cross.Могиле Гоголя вернули первозданный вид: на нее поставили "Голгофу" с могилы Булгакова и восстановили крест.ru March – Serialization of Charles Dickens' novel Bleak House begins; the September installment introduces the first detective in an English novel.http://www.ric.edu/faculty/rpotter/chasfield.html Russell A. Potter Rhode Island College Inspector Charles Frederick Field 2013-08-26 March 8 – Nathaniel Hawthorne purchases The Wayside in Concord, Massachusetts from Bronson Alcott. March 20 – Harriet Beecher Stowe's abolitionist novel Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly is first published in book form, by John P. Jewett of Boston with illustrations by Hammatt Billings, rapidly establishing its position as the best-selling novel of the 19th century.Smith Gail K. The Sentimental Novel: The Example of Harriet Beecher Stowe The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing Bauer, Dale M. Gould, Philip Cambridge University Press 2001 0521660033 221 The first British publication (by Samuel Orchart Beeton) is in AprilMargaret Beetham Beeton, Samuel Orchart (1831-1877) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Oxford University Press 2004 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/45481 10.1093/ref:odnb/45481 2014-01-27 followed by C. H. Clarke and Co.'s in May and John Cassell's serial issue with illustrations by George Cruikshank, together with pirated reprints from Routledge. The first dramatic adaptations appear on the New York stage from Autumn. This year also, Jewett publishes the first work of fiction in English by an African American, the escaped slave Frederick Douglass's novella The Heroic Slave, a heartwarming Narrative of the Adventures of Madison Washington, in Pursuit of Liberty. April – Samuel Orchart Beeton launches The Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine, the first British magazine aimed at a middle-class female readership. April 16 – Ivan Turgenev is imprisoned and exiled to his country estate over an obituary praising Gogol.Turgenev, His Life and Times https://archive.org/details/turgenevhislifet00scha registration Leonard Schapiro Leonard Schapiro 1978 April 24 – Wilkie Collins' first contribution to Household Words, "The traveller's story of a terribly strange bed", is an early example of crime fiction involving the (Paris) police.Andrew Gasson Wilkie Collins Information http://www.wilkie-collins.info/ 2015-11-10 April 29 – Roget's Thesaurus, created by retired British physician Peter Mark Roget, is first published as Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases Classified and Arranged so as to Facilitate the Expression of Ideas and Assist in Literary Composition in London.Hüllen Werner A history of Roget's Thesaurus: origins, development and design 2004 Oxford University Press 1-4237-8876-1 August – Ivan Turgenev's A Sportsman's Sketches («Записки охотника», Zapiski ohotnika; also known as Sketches from a Hunter's Album) are published in book form in Russia while the author is in internal exile; the work is subsequently banned in the Russian Empire. The first major writing to gain him international recognition and influential in the Russian tradition of literary realism, the stories are notable for their sympathy for the privations of serfdom in Russia in the prelude to the emancipation reform of 1861.Orlando Figes Orlando Figes The Europeans [London] Allen Lane 2019 978-0-241-00489-0 August 5 – Exiled French novelist Victor Hugo moves to Saint Helier on Jersey in the Channel Islands with his mistress Juliette Drouet. September 2 – The public library in Campfield, Manchester, England, is the first to offer free lendinghttps://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/2238494.stm BBC News Anniversary of first public library 5 September 2002 14 April 2010 under the U.K. Public Libraries Act 1850; Edward Bulwer-Lytton and Charles Dickens are present at the opening ceremony. November Leo Tolstoy's debut novel, Childhood («Детство», Detstvo), is published under the initials L. N. in this month's issue of the Saint Petersburg literary journal Sovremennik. The Merchant of Venice becomes the first of Shakespeare's plays to be performed publicly in India in an Indian language, Gujarati, as Nathari Firangiz Thekani Avi presented by a Parsi company at Surat. November 23 – At the suggestion of English novelist Anthony Trollope, at this time an official of the British General Post Office, the first roadside pillar boxes in the British Isles are brought into public use in Saint Helier on Jersey in the Channel Islands.Jean Young Farrugia The Letter Box: A History of Post Office Pillar and Wall boxes Fontwell Centaur Press 1969 0-90000014-7 27 unknown dates Pierre Larousse and Augustin Boyer found a publishing house in Paris.Pierre Larousse Grand Dictionnaire Universel [du XIXe Siecle] Francais: (1.)-2. supplement.1878-90? https://books.google.com/books?id=hscnbFg4iKEC&pg=PA1039 1878 Administration du Grand dictionnaire universel 1039 Hanah Mullens' Karuna O Phulmonir Bibaran is the first Bengali novel.Hannah Catherine Mullens 203–10 Women Writing in India: 600 B.C. to the Present: Vol. 1: 600 B.C. to the Early 20th Century Tharu, Susie J. Lalita, K. New York Feminist Press 1-55861-026-X 1991 https://books.google.com/books?id=u297RJP9gvwC&pg=PA203 2013-07-20 The first publication of Bengali plays also takes place this year: C. C. Gupta's Kirtivilas and Taracharan Sikdar's Bhadrarjun. The first translation of a substantial literary work into the Māori language, Defoe's Robinson Crusoe as Ropitini Koruhu, translated by government official Henry T. Kemp, is published in Wellington, New Zealand, "under the direction of the Government".Ropitini Kuruho, 1852 https://teara.govt.nz/en/document/45116/ropitini-kuruho-1852 Te Ara 2021-08-06 probable – The first printing press in the Faeroe Islands is established.Hedin Broenner Hedin Brønner Three Faroese Novelists: An Appreciation of Jørgen-Frantz Jacobsen, William Heinesen, Heðin Brú https://books.google.com/books?id=Az3_Zljrhc0C&pg=PA18 1973 Ardent Media 978-0-8057-3374-7 18 New books Fiction Manuel Antônio de Almeida – Memoirs of a Police Sergeant Caroline Chesebro' – Isa, a Pilgrimage Wilkie Collins – Basil: A Story of Modern Life Robert Criswell – "Uncle Tom's Cabin" Contrasted with Buckingham Hall, the Planter's Home Alphonse de Lamartine – Graziella Mary H. Eastman – Aunt Phillis's Cabin Baynard Rush Hall – Frank Freeman's Barber Shop Nathaniel Hawthorne The Blithedale Romance The Snow-Image, and Other Twice-Told Tales Caroline Lee Hentz Eoline Marcus Warland Herman Melville – Pierre: or, The Ambiguities 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 William 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 The History of Henry Esmond Men's Wives Leo Tolstoy – Childhood Catharine Parr Traill – Canadian Crusoes Ivan Turgenev – A Sportsman's Sketches Frances Milton Trollope – Uncle Walter Susan Bogert Warner – Queechy Walt Whitman (anonymous) – Life and Adventures of Jack Engle (published serially) Children Ellen Henrietta Ranyard – The Book and its Story Drama Dion Boucicault – The Corsican Brothers Manuel Bretón de los Herreros – La escuela del matrimonio Alexandre Dumas, fils – La Dame aux Caméllias Gustav Freytag – Die Journalisten Christian Friedrich Hebbel – Agnes Bernauer George William Lovell – The Trial of Love John Westland Marston – Anne Blake Tom Taylor and Charles Reade – Masks and Faces Poetry Théophile Gautier – Emaux et camées Non-fiction Juan Bautista Alberdi – Bases y puntos de partida para la organización política de la República Argentina (Bases and points of departure for Argentine political organization) William Wells Brown – Three Years in Europe Kuno Fischer – System der Logik und Metaphysik oder Wissenschaftslehre (System of logic and metaphysics, or doctrine of knowledge) Edward A. Freeman – The Preservation and Restoration of Ancient Monuments Victor Hugo – Napoléon le Petit Karl Marx – The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon (Der 18te Brumaire des Louis Napoleon) Susanna Moodie – Roughing It in The Bush: or, Forest Life in Canada Laurence Oliphant – A Journey to Katmandu (the Capital of Nepaul), with the camp of Jung Bahadoor Dr. Peter Mark Roget – Roget's Thesaurus (1st edition) Leopold von Ranke – Französische Geschichte, vornehmlich im sechzehnten und siebzehnten Jahrhundert (History of France, Principally in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries; publication begins) Births February 24 – George Moore, Irish novelist, memoirist and dramatist (died 1933) March 15 – Augusta, Lady Gregory, Irish dramatist and folklorist (died 1932)Augusta, Lady Gregory Encyclopædia Britannica https://www.britannica.com/biography/Augusta-Lady-Gregory 13 March 2018 8 March 2018 March 17 – Cora Linn Daniels, American author (died 1934)The Magazine of Poetry and Literary Review https://books.google.com/books?id=cDg5AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA526 1894 526 April 23 – Edwin Markham, American poet (died 1940) May 4 – Alice Pleasance Liddell, inspiration for the English children's classic Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (died 1934)Anne Clark Amor The Real Alice: Lewis Carroll's Dream Child https://books.google.com/books?id=R0EfAQAAIAAJ 1982 Stein and Day 978-0-8128-2870-2 13 June 4 – Lucas Malet (Mary St Leger Kingsley), English novelist (died 1931) September 2 – Paul Bourget, French novelist, poet and critic (died 1935)John Flower Historical Dictionary of French Literature Scarecrow Press 2013 9780810879454 96 October 11 – Cynthia Morgan St. John, American Wordsworthian, book collector, and author (died 1919)John William Leonard Woman's Who's who of America: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary Women of the United States and Canada American Commonwealth Company 1914 713 October 31 – Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, American short-story and children's writer (died 1930)Edward T. James Janet Wilson James Paul S. Boyer Notable American Women, 1607-1950: A Biographical Dictionary https://books.google.com/books?id=rVLOhGt1BX0C&pg=PA667 1971 Harvard University Press 978-0-674-62734-5 667 November 8 Eva Kinney Griffith, American journalist, temperance activist, novelist, newspaper editor, and journal publisher (died 1918) Lin Shu (林紓), Chinese translator (died 1924) November 15 — Ella Maria Ballou, American writer (d. 1937) Deaths February 17 – Micah Joseph Lebensohn, Lithuanian poet writing in Hebrew (born 1828)Isidore Singer Cyrus Adler The Jewish Encyclopedia: A Descriptive Record of the History, Religion, Literature, and Customs of the Jewish People from the Earliest Times to the Present Day https://books.google.com/books?id=SzsyAQAAMAAJ 1906 Funk & Wagnalls Company 658 February 25 – Thomas Moore, Irish poet (born 1779) March 4 – Nikolai Gogol, Russian dramatist, novelist and short story writer (born 1809)Neil Cornwell Reference Guide to Russian Literature https://books.google.com/books?id=uXxEAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA332 2 December 2013 Routledge 978-1-134-26070-6 332 March 25 – Jane West (Prudentia Homespun), English novelist and writer of conduct books (born 1758)Anne Commire Deborah Klezmer Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia https://books.google.com/books?id=i0EOAQAAMAAJ 2002 Yorkin Publications 978-0-7876-4075-0 389 April 25 – Álvares de Azevedo, Brazilian Ultra-Romantic writer (born 1831) (tuberculosis) May 3 Sara Coleridge, British author and translator (born 1802)Paula R. Feldman British Women Poets of the Romantic Era: An Anthology https://books.google.com/books?id=Cg6Jn410aCIC&pg=PA198 19 January 2001 JHU Press 978-0-8018-6640-1 198 Amelia B. Coppuck Welby, American fugitive poet (born 1819)Lina Mainiero American Women Writers: S to Z https://books.google.com/books?id=o9dlAAAAMAAJ 1979 Ungar 978-0-8044-3151-4 346 May 12 – John Richardson, Canadian novelist (starvation, born 1796) May 25 – Charlotta Berger, Swedish poet and novelist (born 1784) September 11 – Margaret Holford the Younger, English poet and novelist (born 1778) September 30 – Mary Matilda Betham, English diarist, scholar and poet (born 1776) October 26 – Vincenzo Gioberti, Italian philosopher (apoplexy, born 1801)Samuel J. Rogal Calendar of Literary Facts: A Daily and Yearly Guide to Noteworthy Events in World Literature from 1450 to the Present https://books.google.com/books?id=5pgjAQAAIAAJ 1991 Gale Research 978-0-8103-2943-0 35 November 28 – Ludger Duvernay, French Canadian journalist and publisher (born 1799) December 16 – Samuel Lee, English orientalist and linguist (born 1783) References 30em External links Published 1852 Books at Goodreads 1852 Books at Goodreads