1854 in literature

Events

New Books

• Atherton[?] - Mary Russell Mitford[?]
• The Charge of the Light Brigade[?] (poetry) - Alfred Lord Tennyson
• L'Ensorcelée[?] - Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly
• Essence of Christianity[?] - Ludwig Feuerbach
• Fashion and Famine[?] - Ann Sophia Stephens[?]
• Figlie del fuoco[?] - Gerard Nerval[?]
• Hard Times[?] - Charles Dickens
• The Heir of Redclyffe[?] - Charlotte Mary Yonge
• Hide and Seek[?] - Wilkie Collins
• The Lamplighter[?] - Maria Cummins[?]
• The Lost Heiress[?] - E. D. E. N. Southworth[?]
• The Newcomers - William Makepeace Thackeray
• North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell
• The Planter's Northern Bride[?] - Caroline Lee Hentz[?]
• Sketches of Places and People Abroad[?] - William Wells Brown[?]
• Tempest and Sunshine[?] - Mary Jane Holmes[?]
• The Virginia Comedians[?] - John Esten Cooke[?]
• Walden: or, Life in the Woods[?] - Henry David Thoreau

Births

• Sarah Grand[?], author and women's rights advocate (+ 1943)
• October 16 - Oscar Wilde (+ 1900)

Deaths

Awards