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