1854 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1854.
Events
- March 2 – An adaptation of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice into Bengali, Bhānumatī-chittavilās by Hara Chandra Ghosh, is staged;[1] also, Dinabandhu Mitra introduces Falstaff in Nabin Tapaswini.
- March 20 – The Boston Public Library opens to the public in the United States.
- April 1 – August 12 – Charles Dickens's novel Hard Times, is serialised in his magazine Household Words.[2] From September 2, it is followed in the magazine by Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South, another social novel based in the Lancashire manufacturing district.
- July – Publication begins of Anthony Trollope's novel Barchester Towers (1857).
- November – Crimean War: Future novelist Leo Tolstoy arrives to take part as a defending soldier in the Siege of Sevastopol (1854–55).[3] Off-duty he is reading Thackeray's novels in French translation.
- December 14 – Wilkie Collins's "The Lawyer's Story of a Stolen Letter", published as "The Fourth Poor Traveller" in The Seven Poor Travellers – the Household Words special Christmas number – is the first non-police detective fiction published in Britain.[4]
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- John Rollin Ridge's The Life and Adventures of Joaquín Murieta, The Celebrated California Bandit is the first novel by a Native American in the United States (writing as "Yellow Bird") to be published.[5]
- The Polyglotta Africana, an early classification of African languages based on field work under freed slaves in Freetown, Sierra Leone, is published by Sigismund Wilhelm Koelle.[6]
New books
Fiction
- William Harrison Ainsworth – The Flitch of Bacon
- Margaret Jewett Smith Bailey (anonymously) – The Grains, or, Passages in the Life of Ruth Rover, with Occasional Pictures of Oregon, Natural and Moral
- Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly – L'Ensorcelée
- William Wells Brown – Sketches of Places and People Abroad
- Camilla Collett (anonymously) – Template:Ill (The District Governor's Daughters, first part)
- Wilkie Collins – Hide and Seek
- John Esten Cooke – The Virginia Comedians
- Maria Cummins – The Lamplighter
- Charles Dickens – Hard Times
- Fanny Fern – Ruth Hall
- Mathilde Fibiger – Minona
- Frederick Greenwood – The Loves of an Apothecary
- Francesco Domenico Guerrazzi – Beatrice Cenci
- Nathaniel Hawthorne – Mosses from an Old Manse
- Caroline Lee Hentz – The Planter's Northern Bride
- Mary Jane Holmes – Tempest and Sunshine
- Mary Russell Mitford – Atherton
- Gérard de Nerval – Les Filles du feu (short stories)
- Charles Reade – The Courier of Lyons
- Solon Robinson – Hot Corn
- E. D. E. N. Southworth – The Lost Heiress
- Leo Tolstoy – Boyhood («Отрочество», Otrochestvo)
Children and young people
- Anna Eliza Bray – A Peep at the Pixies, or Legends of the West (illustrated by Phiz)
Drama
- Émile Augier and Jules Sandeau – Le Gendre de M. Poirier
- Andreas Munch – Salomon de Caus[7]
- Alexander Ostrovsky – Poverty is No Vice («Бедность не порок», Bednost ne porok)
- Charles Reade – The Courier of Lyons
- Zacharias Topelius – Regina von Emmeritz
Poetry
- R. D. Blackmore – Poems by Melanter
- Coventry Patmore – The Angel in the House
- Emma Tatham – The Dream of Pythagoras and Other Poems
- Alfred Tennyson – "The Charge of the Light Brigade"
Non-fiction
- Samuel Bache – Exposition of Unitarian Views of Christianity
- George Boole – The Laws of Thought
- William Erskine with Claudius James Erskine – History of India under the two first sovereigns of the house of Taimur, Baber, and Humayun[8]
- F. W. Fairholt – Dictionary of Terms in Art
- Ludwig Feuerbach – The Essence of Christianity (Das Wesen des Christentums)
- Kuno Fischer – History of Modern Philosophy (Geschichte der neueren Philosophie), vol. 1
- Elisha Kane – The U. S. Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin: a Personal Narrative[9]
- Éliphas Lévi – Dogme et rituel de la haute magie (Dogma and Ritual of High Magic), vol. 1, Dogme
- Theodor Mommsen – History of Rome (Römische Geschichte), vol. 1
- John Neal – One Word More: Intended for the Reasoning and Thoughtful among Unbelievers[10]
- Henry David Thoreau – Walden, or Life in the Woods
Births
- March 11 – Jane Meade Welch, American journalist and historian (died 1931)
- March 13 – Kolachalam Srinivasa Rao, Indian dramatist (died 1919)
- March 14 – Alexandru Macedonski, Romanian poet, novelist and dramatist (died 1920)
- May 24 – Mona Caird, English novelist, essayist and feminist (died 1932)
- May 25 – Clara Louise Burnham, née Root, American novelist (died 1927)
- June 10
- François, Vicomte de Curel, French dramatist (died 1928)
- Sarah Grand, Irish author and women's rights advocate (died 1943)
- July 7 – W. C. Morrow, American writer, noted for his stories of horror and suspense. (died 1923)
- August 2 – Francis Marion Crawford, American novelist (died 1909)
- September 1 – Florence Trail, American educator and author (died 1944)
- October 16 – Oscar Wilde, Irish dramatist, poet and wit (died 1900)[11]
- October 20
- Alphonse Allais, French humorist (died 1905)[12]
- Arthur Rimbaud, French poet (died 1891)[13]
- unknown date – Eliza D. Keith, American educator, author and journalist (died 1939)
Deaths
- January 5 – Gottschalk Eduard Guhrauer, German philologist and biographer (born 1809)
- February 4 – George Watterston, American librarian of Congress (born 1783)
- April 3 – John Wilson, Scottish poet and journalist (born 1785)
- April 7 – Pierre-François Tissot, French historian and memoirist (born 1768)
- April 16 – Julia Nyberg, Swedish poet (born 1784)
- April 24 – Gabriele Rossetti, Italian poet (born 1783)
- April 30 – James Montgomery, Scottish-born poet and hymnist (born 1771)
- July 20 – Caroline Anne Southey (Caroline Anne Bowles), English poet (born 1786)
- October 14 – Samuel Phillips, English journalist (born 1814)
- November 5 – Susan Edmonstone Ferrier, Scottish novelist (born 1782)
- November 25 – John Kitto, English Biblical commentator (born 1804)
- December 9 – Almeida Garrett, Portuguese poet, novelist and dramatist (born 1799)
Awards
- Chancellor's Gold Medal – Herbert John Reynolds[14]
- July – Opening of Anthony Trollope's novel Barchester Towers (1857).
References
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- ↑ University of Cambridge, A complete collection of the English poems: which have obtained the chancellor's gold medal in the University of Cambridge, 1859.