1854 in literature
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See also: 1853 in literature, other events of 1854, 1855 in literature, list of years 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

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