1852 in literature
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See also: 1851 in literature, other events of 1852, 1853 in literature, list of years in literature.
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[edit] Events
- Pierre Larousse founded his publishing house in Paris, France
[edit] New books
- Basil: A Story of Modern Life - Wilkie Collins
- The Blithedale Romance - Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Canadian Crusoes -Catharine Parr Traill
- The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon - Karl Marx
- Eoline - Caroline Lee Hentz
- Henry Esmond - William Makepeace Thackeray
- Marcus Warland - Caroline Lee Hentz
- Mary Price - G.W.M. Reynolds
- Pierre - Herman Melville
- Queechy - Susan Bogert Warner
- Roughing It in the Bush - Susanna Moodie
- A Sportsman's Sketches - Ivan Turgenev
- Three Years in Europe - William Wells Brown
- Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe
[edit] New drama
- Alexandre Dumas, fils - La Dame aux Caméllias
- Gustav Freytag - Die Journalisten
- Christian Friedrich Hebbel - Agnes Bernauer
- Charles Reade - Masks and Faces
[edit] Poetry
- Théophile Gautier - Emaux et camées
[edit] Non-fiction
- Sir Edward Creasy - Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World
- Kuno Fischer - History of Modern Philosophy
- Leopold von Ranke - History of France
[edit] Births
- February 24 - George Moore, writer (+ 1933)
- March 15 - Lady Gregory, writer (+ 1932)
- October 31 - Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, writer (+ 1930)
- Edwin Austin Abbey - author
[edit] Deaths
- February 17 - Micah Joseph Lebensohn, poet
- February 25 - Thomas Moore, poet
- March 4 - Nikolai Gogol, Russian author
- May 12 - John Richardson, novelist
- November 28 - Ludger Duvernay, printer and publisher
- date unknown - Thomas Griffiths Wainewright, journalist
