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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1852. ==Events== thumb *February 2 - Alexandre Dumas, fils's stage adaptation of his 1848 novel ''La Dame aux caméllias'' is premièred at the Théâtre du Vaudeville in Paris. *February 24 - Nikolai Gogol burns some of his manuscripts, including most of the second part of ''Dead Souls'', telling acquaintances the action is a practical joke played on him by the Devil. He takes to his bed and dies a few days later. *March - Serialization of Charles Dickens' novel ''Bleak House'' begins; the September installment introduces the first detective in an English novel. *March 20 - Harriet Beecher Stowe's abolitionist novel ''Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly'' is first published in book form, by John P. Jewett of Boston with illustrations by Hammatt Billings, rapidly establishing its position as the best-selling novel of the 19th century. The first British publication (by Samuel Orchart Beeton) is in April〔 〕 followed by C. H. Clarke and Co.'s in May and John Cassell's serial issue with illustrations by George Cruikshank, together with pirated reprints from Routledge. The first dramatic adaptations appear on the New York stage from Autumn. *April - Samuel Orchart Beeton launches ''The Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine'', the first British magazine aimed at a middle-class female readership.〔 *April 16 - Ivan Turgenev is imprisoned and exiled to his country estate over an obituary praising Gogol. *April 24 - Wilkie Collins' first contribution to ''Household Words'', "The traveller's story of a terribly strange bed", is an early example of crime fiction involving the (Paris) police. *August 5 - Exiled French novelist Victor Hugo moves to Jersey in the Channel Islands. * September 2 - The public library in Campfield, Manchester, England, is the first to offer free lending under the U.K. Public Libraries Act 1850; Edward Bulwer-Lytton and Charles Dickens are present at the opening ceremony. *November 23 - At the suggestion of English novelist Anthony Trollope, at this time an official of the British General Post Office, the first roadside pillar boxes in the British Isles are brought into public use in Saint Helier on Jersey in the Channel Islands. *Pierre Larousse founds his publishing house in Paris. *Hanah Mullens' ''Karuna O Phulmonir Bibaran'' is the first Bengali novel. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1852 in literature」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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