1857 in literature

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The year 1857 in literature involved some significant new books.

Contents

1 Events
2 New books
3 New drama
4 Poetry
5 Non-fiction
6 Births
7 Deaths

Events

Jules Verne marries Honorine de Viane Morel.
The illustrated weekly, Über Land and Meer, is founded by Friedrich Wilhelm Hackländer and Edmund von Zoller.
Obscene Publications Act 1857 is passed in the United Kingdom, placing severe restrictions on the content of published books until it is replaced with a less stringent one in 1959.

New books

Hans Christian Andersen - To Be or Not to Be
R. M. Ballantyne
- The Coral Island
- Ungava: a Tale of Eskimo Land
George Borrow - The Romany Rye
Charlotte Brontë - The Professor
Wilkie Collins - The Dead Secret
Charles Dickens - Little Dorrit
Alexandre Dumas, père - The Wolf Leader
Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary
Catherine Gore - The Two Aristocracies
Thomas Hughes - Tom Brown's Schooldays
George A. Lawrence - Guy Livingstone, or Thorough
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 - Der Nachsommer
William Makepeace Thackeray - The Virginians
Anthony Trollope - Barchester Towers

New drama

Wilkie Collins (with Charles Dickens) - The Frozen Deep
Liautaud Ethéart - Le Monde de Chez Nous
Henrik Ibsen - The Vikings at Helgeland

Poetry

Charles Baudelaire - Les Fleurs du mal

Non-fiction

Delia Bacon - The Philosophy of Shakespeare's Plays
Elizabeth Gaskell - The Life of Charlotte Brontë, Smith, Elder & Co., biography
Philip Gosse - Omphalos: An Attempt to Untie the Geological Knot
Hinton Rowan Helper - The Impending Crisis of the South
Washington Irving - The Life of George Washington, Volume 4
Allan Kardec - The Spirits' Book
W. H. Smith - Bacon and Shakespere: An Inquiry Touching Players, Play-Houses, and Play-writers in the Days of Elizabeth

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)

Deaths

January 5 - Albert Schwegler, philosopher and theologian (b. 1819)
February 3 - Robert Isaac Wilberforce, historian and religious writer (b. 1802)
March 11 - Manuel José Quintana, poet (b. 1772)
March 26 - John Mitchell Kemble, historian (b. 1807)
May 2 - Alfred de Musset, novelist and poet (b. 1810) (heart failure)
June 8 - Douglas William Jerrold, dramatist (b. 1803)
June 25 - Isabella Kelly, novelist and poet (b. 1759)
July 29, James Holman, travel writer (b. 1786)
August 3 - Eugène Sue, novelist (b. 1804)
August 10 - John Wilson Croker, political writer (b. 1780)
September 5 - Auguste Comte, French philosopher (b. 1798)
September 18 - Jean Baptiste Gustave Planche, critic (b. 1808)
November 26 - Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff, poet and novelist (b. 1788)
December 13 - Richard Furness, poet (b. 1791)