1853 in literature
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See also: 1852 in literature, other events of 1853, 1854 in literature, list of years in literature.
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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.
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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
- Clotel; or, The President's Daughter - 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
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New drama
- Gustav Freytag - Die Journalisten
- Charles Reade - Gold
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Poetry
- Matthew Arnold - The Scholar-Gipsy
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Non-fiction
- Johann Herzog - Encyclopedia of Protestant Theology
- Theodor Mommsen - History of Rome
- Hippolyte Taine - Essai sur les fables de La Fontaine
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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
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Deaths
- January 3 - János Majláth, poet and historian
- 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
- date unknown - Sylvester Judd, novelist
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