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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 |
| | | English author Anthony Trollope publishes The Warden, the first in his series of six Barsetshire novels | |
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| 1856 |
| | | G.H. Lewes encourages Marian to try her hand at fiction and her first story, 'The Sad Fortunes of the Reverend Amos Barton' is successfully published | |
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| 1856 |
| | | Gustave Flaubert publishes Madame Bovary, a novel of frustrated romanticism in a provincial French context | |
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| 1857 |
| | | In Tom Brown's Schooldays Thomas Hughes depicts the often brutal aspects of an English public school | |
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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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| 1859 February |
| | | English author George Eliot wins fame with her first full-length novel, Adam Bede | |
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