1852 in literature

Events

• Alexandre Dumas, fils writes his drama, La Dame aux camélias[?].
• Pierre Larousse[?] founded his publishing house in Paris, France

New Books

• Basil: A Story of Modern Life[?] - Wilkie Collins
• The Blithedale Romance[?] - Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Canadian Crusoes[?] -Catherine Parr Traill[?]
• The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte[?] - Karl Marx
• Eoline[?] - Caroline Lee Hentz[?]
• Henry Esmond[?] - William Makepeace Thackeray
• Marcus Warland[?] - Caroline Lee Hentz[?]
• Pierre[?] - Herman Melville
• Queechy[?] - Susan Bogert Warner[?]
• Roughing It in the Bush[?] - Susanna Moodie[?]
• Three Years in Europe[?] - William Wells Brown[?]
• Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe

Births

• February 24 - George A. Moore, writer (+ 1933)
• October 31 - Mary E. Wilkins Freeman[?], writer (+ 1930)

Deaths

• March 4 - Nikolai Gogol, Russian author

Awards