Literature year 1852

Literature year 1852
Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin .	The first part of the sequel story Bleak House by Charles Dickens appears.

Events

Harriet Beecher Stowe

March 20 : The novel Uncle Tom's Cabin ( Onkel Toms Hütte ) by Harriet Beecher Stowe is published for the first time in book form with a circulation of 5,000 copies. The work is out of stock within 48 hours. In the same year, numerous works by other authors that can be assigned to anti-Tom literature are published .
March: The first part of the serial Bleak House by Charles Dickens is published.
August: Jules Verne publishes the short story L'Amérique du Sud. Moeurs péruviennes. Martin Paz, nouvelle historique ( Martin Paz ). In the same year he also published Les Châteaux en Californie ou Pierre qui roule n'amasse pas mousse .

Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy publishes his first work, the short story Childhood , in which he fuses fictional and autobiographical elements.
Jeremias Gotthelf writes the story Barthli der Korber .

Friedrich Hebbel's tragedy Agnes Bernauer has its world premiere in Munich. It has been controversial from the start but becomes a hit with the public.
The comedy The Poor Bride by Alexander Ostrowski appears (premiered in 1853).
Lermontov's verse drama Masquerade is premiered.

April 29th : In Great Britain, the 15,000-word thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget is published , which quickly triggers new editions due to high demand.

Title page of the first edition

May 18 : In the American magazine Die Revolution , Karl Marx publishes the book The Eighteenth Brumaire by Louis Bonaparte , which he completed on March 25 , in which he analyzes the coup d'état of Louis Napoleon in 1851 . In the same year Marx became the London correspondent for the New York Tribune .

May 4 : Alice Liddell , template for the heroine in Alice in Wonderland († 1934 )
May 18 : Itzhok Lejb Perez , Polish writer († 1915 )

September 2 : Paul Bourget , French poet and critic († 1935 )
October 1 : Richard Kralik , Austrian writer and cultural philosopher († 1934 )
October 16 : Karl Ludwig Schemann , German writer, translator and racial theorist († 1938 )
October 22 : Adam Müller-Guttenbrunn , Austrian writer and theater director († 1923 )
October 28 : Theodor Fritsch , German publicist of anti-Semitic writings († 1933 )
December 13 : Emanuel Schreiber , Austrian rabbi and journalist († 1905 )

Braille's grave in Coupvray ,
100 years after his death, Braille's body was transferred to the Panthéon in Paris

March 4 : Nikolai Gogol , Russian writer (* 1809 )
March 10 : Armand Marrast , French journalist (* 1801 )
March 18 : Friedrich Wilhelm Carové , German lawyer, Germanist and philosopher (* 1789 )
May 3 : Sara Coleridge , British writer and translator (* 1802 )
December 13 : Karl Baldamus , German lawyer, publicist, poet, narrator and poet (* 1784 )

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