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The year 1852 in literature involved some significant new books.

Events

• Pierre Larousse founded his publishing house in Paris, France.

New books

• Manuel Antônio de Almeida - Memoirs of a Police Sergeant
• Wilkie Collins - Basil: A Story of Modern Life
• Mary Eastman - Aunt Phillis's Cabin
• Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • The Blithedale Romance
  • The Snow-Image, and Other Twice-Told Tales
• Caroline Lee Hentz
  • Eoline
  • Marcus Warland
• Herman Melville - Pierre
• Susanna Moodie - Roughing It in the Bush
• George W. M. Reynolds - Mary Price
• Harriet Beecher Stowe - Uncle Tom's Cabin
• William Makepeace Thackeray
  • The History of Henry Esmond
  • Men's Wives
• Leo Tolstoy - Childhood
• Catharine Parr Traill - Canadian Crusoes
• Ivan Turgenev - A Sportsman's Sketches
• Susan Bogert Warner - Queechy

New drama

• Alexandre Dumas, fils - La Dame aux Caméllias
• Gustav Freytag - Die Journalisten
• Christian Friedrich Hebbel - Agnes Bernauer
• Charles Reade - Masks and Faces

Poetry

• Théophile Gautier - Emaux et camées

Non-fiction

• William Wells Brown - Three Years in Europe
• Sir Edward Creasy - Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World
• Kuno Fischer - History of Modern Philosophy
• Karl Marx - The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon
• Leopold von Ranke - History of France
• Roget's Thesaurus (first edition)

Births

• February 24 - George Moore, writer (+ 1933)
• March 15 - Lady Gregory, writer (+ 1932)
• October 31 - Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, writer (+ 1930)
• Edwin Austin Abbey - author

Deaths

• February 17 - Micah Joseph Lebensohn, poet
• February 25 - Thomas Moore, poet
• March 4 - Nikolai Gogol, Russian author
• May 12 - John Richardson, novelist
• November 28 - Ludger Duvernay, printer and publisher
• date unknown - Thomas Griffiths Wainewright, journalist

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