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10 unusual facts about 1853 in literature


Antifanaticism: A Tale of the South

Antifanaticism: A Tale of the South is an 1853 plantation fiction novel by Martha Haines Butt.

Clotel

Clotel; or, The President's Daughter is an 1853 novel by United States author and playwright William Wells Brown, an escaped slave from Kentucky who was active on the anti-slavery circuit.

Frank Freeman's Barber Shop

Chapter VII of Freeman - entitled The Death of Dinah - is strongly echoed in a later anti-Tom novel: Uncle Robin, in His Cabin in Virginia, and Tom Without One in Boston by J.W. Page (1853), in which another character also named Dinah passes away as a redeemed Christian, as does the character of Dinah in Hall's novel.

Kites Hardwick

However, Salzman records that much of the arable land had once been pasture; this seems borne out as late as 1853 in a reference by RS Surtees to: ... the wide-stretching grazing grounds of Southam and Dunchurch.

Laurindo Rabelo

The only work written by Rabelo is the poetry book Trovas (Ballads), published in 1853.

Liberia; or, Mr. Peyton's Experiments

Liberia; or, Mr. Peyton's Experiments is an 1853 novel by Sarah Josepha Hale, the author of the nursery rhyme "Mary Had a Little Lamb", who wrote the novel under the name of Sara J. Hale.

Liberia was first published in novelised form by Harper & Brothers of New York City in 1853.

Little Eva: The Flower of the South

Little Eva: The Flower of the South is an 1853 children's novel written by Philip J. Cozans.

The Lofty and the Lowly, or Good in All and None All Good

The Lofty and the Lowly, or Good in All and None All Good is a novel by Maria J. McIntosh published by D. Appleton & Company in 1853.

Uncle Robin, in His Cabin in Virginia, and Tom Without One in Boston

Uncle Robin, in His Cabin in Virginia, and Tom Without One in Boston (sometimes shortened to simply Uncle Robin's Cabin) is an 1853 novel written by J.W. Page and released by J. W. Randolph Publishers of Richmond, Virginia.