1853 in literature
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Events
Prose
- September: The last two parts of the ongoing story Bleak House by Charles Dickens appear.
- The stories Colorful stones of Adalbert Stifter appear in two volumes with engravings by Ludwig Richter Gustav Heckenast in Pest.
- The story Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville published in Putnam's Monthly Magazine.
- Ludwig Bechstein published his German word book, which, however, does not reach the popularity of his fairy tale book.
Periodicals
- The first edition of the journal The gazebo is published by Ernst Keil. The first publisher to 1862 Ferdinand Stolle, since wedge has lost his civil rights because of a press misdemeanor.
- The leaves of literary entertainment of every day to provide on a weekly show. Among other things, they publish this year Heinrich Heine's narrative work Gods in misery, the French version appears in the Revue des Deux Mondes in the same year.
- After a law was passed in Prussia, the women forbids the publication of journals, must, founded by Louise Otto Women's Newspaper - An institution for higher female interests to cease publication.
Non-Fiction
- Harriet Beecher Stowe published Uncle Tom's Cabin A Key to ( A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin ), by bringing evidence of the statements in her novel. This is in response to the many criticisms of her work, which is especially practiced in the booming anti - Tom literature.
Born
- Martiniano Leguizamón, Argentine writer († 1935)
Died
- February 6: August Kopisch, Silesian painter and writer (* 1799)
- APRIL 28: Ludwig Tieck, German poet, writer, editor and translator (* 1773)
- JUNE 11: Johannes Cornelis de Jonge, Dutch historian (* 1793)