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| 1850 |
| | | Nathaniel Hawthorne publishes his novel The Scarlet Letter, in which Hester Prynne is forced to wear the letter A for Adultress | |
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| 1851 |
| | | US author Nathaniel Hawthorne bases his novel The House of the Seven Gables on a curse invoked against his own family | |
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| 1851 |
| | | Herman Melville publishes Moby Dick; or, The Whale, a novel based on his own 18-month experience on a whaler in 1841-2 | |
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| 1852 |
| | | Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes a massively successful antislavery novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, that sells 300,000 copies in its first year | |
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| 1855 |
| | | The first edition of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass is published anonymously, at his own expense, and contains just 12 poems | |
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| 1855 |
| | | Longfellow publishes his American Indian epic, The Song of Hiawatha, in an irresistibly catchy metre | |
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| 1858 |
| | | Oliver Wendell Holmes' book The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table is the first in a breakfast-table series | |
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| 1858 |
| | | Longfellow uses a romantic story of early New England for his narrative poem The Courtship of Miles Standish | |
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| 1861 |
| | | Longfellow's narrative poem Paul Revere's Ride dramatizes a turning point at the start of the American Revolution | |
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| 1862 |
| | | Julia Ward Howe publishes The Battle Hymn of the Republic, inspired by a visit to Union troops in the American Civil War | |
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