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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 8 Awards

[edit] 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.

[edit] New books

• Hans Christian Andersen - To Be or Not to Be
• Robert Michael Ballantyne
  • The Coral Island
  • Ungava: a Tale of Eskimo Land
• George Borrow - The Romany Rye
• Charlotte Brontë - The Professor
• Wilkie Collins - The Dead Secret
• Dinah Craik - John Halifax, Gentleman
• 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
• 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

[edit] New drama

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

[edit] Poetry

• Charles Baudelaire - Les Fleurs du mal

[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
• Washington Irving - The Life of George Washington, Volume 4
• Allan Kardec - The Spirits' Book

[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 (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)

[edit] Awards