1857 In Literature

Events

• Charles Dickens publishes the final installment of Little Dorritt.

New books

• Barchester Towers - Anthony Trollope
• The Confidence Man - Herman Melville
• The Coral Island - RM Ballantyne
• The Dead Secret - Wilkie Collins
• The Hasheesh Eater - Fitz Hugh Ludlow
• Les Fleurs du Mal (poetry) - Charles Baudelaire
• John Halifax, Gentleman - Dinah Maria Mulock
• Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
• Married or Single? - Catharine Maria Sedgwick
• The Professor - Charlotte Bront
• The Romany Rye - George Borrow
• To Be or Not to Be - Hans Christian Andersen
• Tom Brown's Schooldays - Thomas Hughes
• The Two Aristocracies - Catherine Gore
• - RM Ballantyne
• The Virginians - William Makepeace Thackeray

Births

• December 3 - Joseph Conrad (+ 1924)
• February 23 - Margaret Deland (+ 1945)
• November 22 - George Gissing (+ 1903)

Deaths

• May 2 - Alfred de Musset, novelist and poet
• June 8 - Douglas William Jerrold, British writer
• August 3 - Eugne Sue, novelist

Awards

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