1857 in literature
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See also: 1856 in literature, other events of 1857, 1858 in literature, list of years in literature.
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[edit] Events
- Jules Verne marries Honorine de Viane Morel.
[edit] New books
- Hans Christian Andersen - To Be or Not to Be
- R M Ballantyne
- Ungava: a Tale of Eskimo Land
- George Borrow - Romany Rye
- Charlotte Brontë - The Professor
- Wilkie Collins - The Dead Secret
- Dinah Craik - John Halifax, Gentleman
- Alexandre Dumas, père - The Wolf Leader
- Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary
- Catherine Gore - The Two Aristocracies
- Thomas Hughes - Tom Brown's Schooldays
- Fitz Hugh Ludlow - The Hasheesh Eater
- Herman Melville - The Confidence-Man
- G. W. M. Reynolds - The Necromancer
- Joseph Xavier Saintine - Seul
- Catharine Maria Sedgwick - Married or Single?
- Adalbert Stifter - Nachsommer
- William Makepeace Thackeray - The Virginians
- Anthony Trollope - Barchester Towers
[edit] Poetry
[edit] Non-fiction
- Delia Bacon - The Philosophy of Shakespeare's Plays
- Philip Gosse - Omphalos: An Attempt to Untie the Geological Knot
- Hinton Rowan Helper - The Impending Crisis of the South
[edit] Births
- February - Arthur Tolkien, father of J. R. R. Tolkien
- February 23 - Margaret Deland (+ 1945)
- July - Adriana Porter, Wicca "poet" (+ 1946)
- July 24 - Henrik Pontoppidan, Nobel Prize-winning author (+ 1943)
- September 30 - Hermann Sudermann, dramatist and novelist (+ 1928)
- October 31 - Axel Munthe, doctor and author (+ 1949)
- November 22 - George Gissing (+ 1903)
- November 26 - Ferdinand de Saussure, Swiss linguist (+ 1913)
- December 3 - Joseph Conrad (+ 1924)
- date unknown - Benjamin Eli Smith, editor of reference books (+ 1913)
[edit] Deaths
- January 5 - Albert Schwegler, philosopher and theologian
- February 3 - Robert Isaac Wilberforce, historian and religious writer
- March 26 - John Mitchell Kemble, historian
- May 2 - Alfred de Musset, novelist and poet
- June 8 - Douglas William Jerrold, British writer
- July 29, James Holman, travel writer
- August 3 - Eugène Sue, novelist
- August 10 - John Wilson Croker, political writer
- September 18 - Jean Baptiste Gustave Planche, critic
- December 13 - Richard Furness, poet
