This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1853.
Children and young people
Philip J. Cozans – Little Eva: The Flower of the South
Gustav Freytag – Die Journalisten
Alexander Ostrovsky – The Poor Bride (Бедная невеста, Bednaya nevesta)
Charles Reade – Gold
George Sand – Le Pressoir
Álvares de Azevedo – Lira dos Vinte Anos (published posthumously)
Matthew Arnold – The Scholar Gipsy
Victor Hugo – Les Châtiments
Judge Edmonds, George Dexter – Spiritualism
Johann Jakob Herzog – Real-Encyklopädie für protestantische Theologie und Kirche ("Encyclopedia of Protestant Theology") begins publication
Ferdinand Hoefer (ed.) – Nouvelle Biographie Générale, vol. 1
Solomon Northup – Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of Solomon Northup, citizen of New-York, kidnapped in Washington city in 1841, and rescued in 1853, from a cotton plantation near the Red River in Louisiana
Karl Rosenkrantz – Aesthetic of Ugliness (Aesthetik des Hässlichen)
Hippolyte Taine – Essai sur les fables de La Fontaine
April 17 – Mrs. Henry Clarke (Amy Key), English historical novelist and children's writer (died 1908)
April 23 – Thomas Nelson Page, American writer and lawyer (died 1922)
April 27 – Jules Lemaître, French dramatist and critic (died 1914)
May 3 – E. W. Howe (Edgar Watson Howe), American author and editor (died 1937)
May 14 – Hall Caine, British novelist and playwright (died 1931)
July 27 – Clementina Black, English novelist and political writer (died 1922)
September 14 – Radu Rosetti, Romanian politician, historical novelist and memoirist (died 1926)
November 1 – Lie Kim Hok, Dutch East Indian Chinese journalist, novelist, poet and translator (died 1912)
Unknown date – Dharmavaram Ramakrishnamacharyulu, Telugu dramatist (died 1912)
January 26 – Sylvester Judd, American novelist (born 1813)
February 3 – August Kopisch, German poet (born 1799)
April 4 – James Scholefield, classicist (born 1789)
April 28 – Ludwig Tieck, German poet, novelist and translator (born 1773)
May 3 – Juan Donoso Cortés, Spanish diplomat and writer (born 1809)
June 4 – Pavel Katenin, Russian classicist, poet and dramatist (born 1792)
September 5 – Georges Depping, German-French historian (born 1784)
October 29 – Thomas Jonathan Wooler, English satirist (born 1786)
December 2 – Amelia Opie, English poet and novelist (born 1769)
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