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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1853.

Events

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 it impossible to publish.^[1]
November 25 – English poet Alfred Tennyson settles at Farringford House on the Isle of Wight.^[2]
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.^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]
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.^[7]
- Uriah Maggs establishes what will become the antiquarian bookselling business of Maggs Bros Ltd in London.^[8]

New books

Fiction

Edward Bradley (as Cuthbert Bede) – The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green
Charlotte Brontë – Villette
William Wells Brown – Clotel; or, The President's Daughter
Martha Haines Butt – Antifanaticism: A Tale of the South
Charles Dickens – Bleak House
Alexandre Dumas, père – La Comtesse de Charny^[9]
Elizabeth Gaskell
- Cranford
- 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 Sabha^[10]
Gustav Freytag – Die Journalisten
Alexander Ostrovsky – The Poor Bride (Бедная невеста, Bednaya nevesta)<ref">Revyakin, A.I. (1949). "The Poor Bride. Commentary". The Complete A.N. Ostrovsky. Volume 1. Plays 1847-1854. Khudozhestvennaya literature Publishers, 1949. Retrieved 2012-03-01.</ref>
Charles Reade – Gold
George Sand – Le Pressoir

Poetry

Álvares de Azevedo – Lira dos Vinte Anos (published posthumously)
Matthew Arnold – The Scholar Gipsy
Victor Hugo – Les Châtiments

Non-fiction

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. 1^[11]
George Holyoake – Christianity and Secularism. Report of a Debate between the Rev. Bruin Grant B.A. and George Jacob Holyoake Esq.^[12]
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

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)
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)
Unknown date – Dharmavaram Ramakrishnamacharyulu, Telugu dramatist (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 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"^[13]

References

^ Balogh, István (1976). Ancient Cultures of the Uralian Peoples. Corvina Press. p. 276. ISBN 978-963-13-3019-9.
^ Pinion, F. B. (1990). "1853". A Tennyson Chronology. Basingstoke: Macmillan. p. 66. ISBN 0-333-46020-0.
^ Slater, Michael (2009). Charles Dickens. New Haven; London: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-16552-4. p. 353.
^ Shinn, Matt (2004-12-31). "Matt Shinn on Charles Dickens's stage performances". The Guardian. London.
^ "The glorious night Dickens held Birmingham spellbound with his tale of Scrooge". Birmingham Live. Birmingham Mail. 2013-12-13.
^ Collins, Philip (1969). "Dickens' Public Readings: The Performer and the Novelist". Studies in the Novel. 1: 118–132.
^ Murray, Christopher John (2004). Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, 1760-1850. Taylor & Francis. p. 662. ISBN 978-1-57958-422-1.
^ The Bookseller. J. Whitaker. 1953. p. 754.
^ Alexandre Dumas (1989). La Comtesse de Charny. Editions Complexe. p. 12. ISBN 978-2-87027-316-6.
^ Amaresh Datta, The Encyclopaedia Of Indian Literature, Volume 2, Sahitya Akademi, 2006, ISBN 978-81-260-1194-0
^ Its 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").
^ Text: Retrieved 13 April 2017.
^ University Oxford (1876). Oxford University Calendar for the Year 1876. at the Clarendon Press. p. 2.

[1] Balogh, István (1976). Ancient Cultures of the Uralian Peoples. Corvina Press. p. 276. ISBN 978-963-13-3019-9.

[2] Pinion, F. B. (1990). "1853". A Tennyson Chronology. Basingstoke: Macmillan. p. 66. ISBN 0-333-46020-0.

[3] Slater, Michael (2009). Charles Dickens. New Haven; London: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-16552-4. p. 353.

[4] Shinn, Matt (2004-12-31). "Matt Shinn on Charles Dickens's stage performances". The Guardian. London.

[5] "The glorious night Dickens held Birmingham spellbound with his tale of Scrooge". Birmingham Live. Birmingham Mail. 2013-12-13.

[6] Collins, Philip (1969). "Dickens' Public Readings: The Performer and the Novelist". Studies in the Novel. 1: 118–132.

[7] Murray, Christopher John (2004). Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, 1760-1850. Taylor & Francis. p. 662. ISBN 978-1-57958-422-1.

[8] The Bookseller. J. Whitaker. 1953. p. 754.

[9] Alexandre Dumas (1989). La Comtesse de Charny. Editions Complexe. p. 12. ISBN 978-2-87027-316-6.

[10] Amaresh Datta, The Encyclopaedia Of Indian Literature, Volume 2, Sahitya Akademi, 2006, ISBN 978-81-260-1194-0

[11] Its 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").

[12] Text: Retrieved 13 April 2017.

[13] University Oxford (1876). Oxford University Calendar for the Year 1876. at the Clarendon Press. p. 2.

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