Calendar of Literary Facts

1852

  • Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly
  • Ivan Turgenev publishes A Sportsman’s Sketches
  • Peter Mark Roget publishes the Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases
  • John Richardson dies
  • The Second Empire flourishes in France under Napoleon III
  • The Second Burmese War is fought in Southeast Asia
  • Matthew Arnold publishes Empedocles on Etna, and Other Poems, containing “The Buried Life” as well as the volume’s title poem
  • Nikolai Gogol dies (March 4)
  • Leopoldo (Enrique Garcia) Alas (y Urena) is born (April 25)