1852 in literature

See also: 1851 in literature, other events of 1852, 1853 in literature, list of years 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 -Catharine 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

New drama

• Gustav Freytag – Die Journalisten
• Christian Friedrich Hebbel – Agnes Bernauer
• Charles Reade – Masks and Faces

Births

• February 24 – George Moore, writer (+ 1933)
• October 31 – Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, writer (+ 1930)
• Edwin Austin Abbey – author

Deaths

• March 4 – Nikolai Gogol, Russian author

Awards