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The year 1853 in literature involved some significant new books.
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Events
- Charles Dickens writes Bleak House, the first English novel to feature a detective.
- William Wells Brown becomes the first African American novelist to be published.
New books
- Charlotte Brontë - Villette
- William Wells Brown - Clotel; or, The President's Daughter
- Martha Haines Butt - Antifanaticism: A Tale of the South
- Philip J. Cozans - Little Eva: The Flower of the South
- Charles Dickens - Bleak House
- Alexandre Dumas, père - The Countess de Charny
- Elizabeth Gaskell
- Sarah Josepha Hale - Liberia; or, Mr. Peyton's Experiments
- Caroline Lee Hentz - Helen and Arthur
- Victor Hugo - Les Châtiments
- 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
- Herman Melville - Bartleby, the Scrivener
- Susanna Moodie - Life in the Clearings
- J. W. Page - Uncle Robin, in His Cabin in Virginia, and Tom Without One in Boston
- Charles Reade - Peg Woffington
- Robert Smith Surtees - Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour
- Vidi - Mr. Frank, the Underground Mail-Agent
- George J. Whyte-Melville - Digby Grand
- Charlotte Mary Yonge - The Heir of Redclyffe
New drama
- Gustav Freytag - Die Journalisten
- Charles Reade - Gold
Poetry
- Álvares de Azevedo - Lira dos Vinte Anos (published posthumously)
- Matthew Arnold - The Scholar Gipsy
Non-fiction
- Johann Herzog - Encyclopedia of Protestant Theology
- Theodor Mommsen - History of Rome
- Karl Rosenkrantz - Aesthetic of Ugliness
- Hippolyte Taine - Essai sur les fables de La Fontaine
Births
- April 23 - Thomas Nelson Page, novelist (+ 1922)
- May 3 - Edgar Watson Howe, author and editor (+ 1937)
- May 14 - Hall Caine, author (+ 1931)
- William Herrick Macaulay
Deaths
- January 3 - János Majláth, poet and historian
- January 26 - Sylvester Judd, novelist
- February 3 - August Kopisch, poet
- April 4 - James Scholefield, classicist
- April 28 - Ludwig Tieck, poet, novelist and translator
- May 3 - Juan Donoso Cortés, political author
- September 5 - Georges Depping, historian
- October 29 - Thomas Jonathan Wooler, satirist
- December 2 - Amelia Opie, poet and novelist
Awards
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