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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1854. ==Events== * April 1–August 12 - Charles Dickens's novel ''Hard Times'' is serialised in his magazine ''Household Words''. From September 2, it is followed in the magazine by Elizabeth Gaskell's ''North and South'', another social novel based in the Lancashire manufacturing district. * November - Crimean War: Future novelist Leo Tolstoy arrives to take part as a defending soldier in the Siege of Sevastopol (1854–55).〔''Sevastopol Sketches''.〕 Off-duty he is reading Thackeray's novels in French translation. * December 14 - Wilkie Collins' "The Lawyer's Story of a Stolen Letter", published as "The Fourth Poor Traveller" in ''The Seven Poor Travellers'', the ''Household Words'' special Christmas number, is the first non-police detective fiction published in Britain. * John Rollin Ridge's ''The Life and Adventures of Joaquín Murieta, The Celebrated California Bandit'' is published, the first novel by a Native American in the United States (writing as "Yellow Bird"), although concerning a Mexican immigrant. * The ''Polyglotta Africana'', an early classification of African languages based on field work under freed slaves in Freetown, Sierra Leone, is published by Sigismund Wilhelm Koelle. * Samuel French begins his publishing business, origin of the theatrical publisher Samuel French, Inc., in New York City. 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「1854 in literature」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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