1852 in literature

The year 1852 in literature involved some significant new books.

Events

 * Pierre Larousse founded his publishing house in Paris, France.

New books

 * Manuel Antônio de Almeida - Memoirs of a Police Sergeant
 * Wilkie Collins - Basil: A Story of Modern Life
 * Robert Criswell - "Uncle Tom's Cabin" Contrasted with Buckingham Hall, the Planter's Home
 * Mary Eastman - Aunt Phillis's Cabin
 * Nathaniel Hawthorne
 * The Blithedale Romance
 * The Snow-Image, and Other Twice-Told Tales
 * Baynard R. Hall - Frank Freeman's Barber Shop
 * Caroline Lee Hentz
 * Eoline
 * Marcus Warland
 * Herman Melville - Pierre
 * Susanna Moodie - Roughing It in the Bush
 * Charles Jacobs Peterson (as J. Thornton Randolph) - The Cabin and Parlor; or, Slaves and Masters
 * George W.M. Reynolds - Mary Price
 * Caroline Rush - The North and the South; or, Slavery and Its Contrasts
 * W.L.G. Smith - Life at the South; or, "Uncle Tom's Cabin" As It Is
 * Harriet Beecher Stowe - Uncle Tom's Cabin
 * William Makepeace Thackeray
 * The History of Henry Esmond
 * Men's Wives
 * Leo Tolstoy - Childhood
 * Catharine Parr Traill - Canadian Crusoes
 * Ivan Turgenev - A Sportsman's Sketches
 * Susan Bogert Warner - Queechy

New drama

 * Alexandre Dumas, fils - La Dame aux Caméllias
 * Gustav Freytag - Die Journalisten
 * Christian Friedrich Hebbel - Agnes Bernauer
 * Charles Reade - Masks and Faces

Poetry

 * Théophile Gautier - Emaux et camées

Non-fiction

 * Juan Bautista Alberdi - Bases and points of Departure for Argentine Political organization.
 * William Wells Brown - Three Years in Europe
 * Sir Edward Creasy - Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World
 * Kuno Fischer - History of Modern Philosophy
 * Victor Hugo - Napoléon le Petit
 * Karl Marx - The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon
 * Leopold von Ranke - History of France
 * Roget's Thesaurus (first edition)

Births

 * February 24 - George Moore, writer (d.  1933)
 * March 15 - Lady Gregory, writer (d. 1932)
 * April 23 - Edwin Markham, poet (d. 1940)
 * October 31 - Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, writer (d. 1930)

Deaths

 * February 17 - Micah Joseph Lebensohn, poet
 * February 25 - Thomas Moore, poet
 * March 4 - Nikolai Gogol, Russian author
 * May 12 - John Richardson, novelist
 * November 28 - Ludger Duvernay, printer and publisher
 * date unknown - Thomas Griffiths Wainewright, journalist