See also: 1852 in literature, other events of 1853, 1854 in literature, list of years in literature.

Contents

1 Events 2 New Books 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Awards

Events

• Charles Dickens writes Bleak House, the first English novel to feature a detective.

New Books

• An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street - Sheridan Le Fanu
• Bartleby, the Scrivener - Herman Melville
• Bleak House - Charles Dickens
• Les Châtiments - Victor Hugo
• Clotelle - William Wells Brown
• The Countess de Charny - Alexandre Dumas, père
• Cranford - Elizabeth Gaskell
• Digby Grand - George J. Whyte-Melville
• Helen and Arthur - Caroline Lee Hentz
• Hypatia - Charles Kingsley
• Life in the Clearings - Susanna Moodie
• Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour - Robert Smith Surtees
• Peg Woffington - Charles Reade
• Ruth - Elizabeth Gaskell
• Villette - Charlotte Brontë

Births

• April 23 - Thomas Nelson Page, novelist (+ 1922)
• May 14 - Hall Caine, author (+ 1931)

Deaths

Awards