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Overview of the events of 1857 in literature
Overview of the events of 1857 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1857 .
Events
February 7 –
Gustave Flaubert 's pioneering
realist novel
Madame Bovary is acquitted (but censured) on charges of offending morals and religion from its
1856 expurgated serialization. It is published complete in book form in April by
Michel Lévy Frères in Paris.
February 15 – The play
Demetrius , left unfinished at
Schiller 's death in
1805 , is premiered at the
Hoftheater in Weimar .
[3]
May 2 – The
British Museum Reading Room opens in London.
[4]
May 5 – American publisher Moses Phillips hosts a dinner for
Ralph Waldo Emerson ,
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ,
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. ,
James Russell Lowell and other literary notables at the
Parker House Hotel ,
Boston , Massachusetts, to agree on launching
The Atlantic Monthly , "a magazine of literature, art, and politics", on
November 1 with Lowell as first editor.
June 25 –
Charles Baudelaire 's collection of poems
Les Fleurs du mal is published in Paris. He will be convicted and six of the most
decadent poems suppressed on charges of offending morals and religion.
[5]
August 21 –
24 – Performances of
Wilkie Collins ' drama
The Frozen Deep at the
Free Trade Hall ,
Manchester , for the benefit of the widow of writer
Douglas William Jerrold (died June 8), during which
Charles Dickens , who is directing and performing, becomes infatuated with the professional actress
Ellen Ternan .
[1]
September –
Obscene Publications Act 1857 is passed in the United Kingdom, making the sale of obscene material a statutory offence (although it gives no definition of
obscenity ).
William Dugdale , a prime target of the act, is one of the first to be charged under it. The Act is replaced with a less stringent one in
1959 .
[6]
September 25 –
Eugène Sue 's extended fiction Les Mystères du peuple is condemned on charges of offending morals and religion,
[7] the author having died on August 3.
October – The Sacramento Library Association, predecessor of
Sacramento Public Library , is established as a public subscription library in
Sacramento, California , by members of the "
Big Four " and other prominent citizens.
November 1 –
The Atlantic Monthly is first published, in
Boston , Massachusetts, by Phillips, Sampson and Company.
unknown dates –
George Eliot 's
Scenes of Clerical Life are published as a serial in
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine through the year, as her first work of fiction and the first use of her
pseudonym .
[8]
New books
Fiction
Children and young people
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
February 7 –
Benjamin Eli Smith , American editor of reference books (died
1913 )
February 9 –
A. H. Bullen , English editor and publisher (died
1920 )
February 23 –
Margaret Deland , American novelist (died
1945 )
February 27 –
Agnes Mary Frances Duclaux , née Robinson, English-born poet, biographer and novelist (died
1944 )
March 27 –
Ella Hepworth Dixon , English writer, novelist and editor (died
1932 )
May 21 –
Frances Brackett Damon , American writer (died
1939 )
May 28 –
Annie Maria Barnes , American journalist, editor, and author (died, date unknown)
July –
Adriana Porter , American
Wiccan poet (died
1946 )
July 24 –
Henrik Pontoppidan , Danish Nobel Prize-winning author (died
1943 )
[13]
September 30 –
Hermann Sudermann , German dramatist and novelist (died
1928 )
October 5 –
Peadar Toner Mac Fhionnlaoich , Irish Gaelic writer (died
1942 )
October 31 –
Axel Munthe , Swedish physician and author (died
1949 )
[14]
November 22 –
George Gissing , English novelist and critic (died
1903 )
November 26 –
Ferdinand de Saussure , Swiss linguist (died
1913 )
December 3 –
Joseph Conrad (Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski), Polish-born English novelist and story writer (died
1924 )
December 4 –
Julia Ditto Young , American poet and novelist (died
1915 )
Deaths
January 5 –
Albert Schwegler , German philosopher and theologian (born
1819 )
February 3 –
Robert Wilberforce , English historian and religious writer (born
1802 )
March 11 –
Manuel José Quintana , Spanish poet (born
1772 )
March 26 –
John Mitchell Kemble , English historian (born
1807 )
April 19 –
Elizabeth Wynne Fremantle , English diarist (born
1778 )
[15]
May 2 –
Alfred de Musset , French novelist and poet (heart failure, born
1810 )
[16]
June 8 –
Douglas William Jerrold , English dramatist (born
1803 )
[17]
June 25 –
Isabella Kelly , Scottish novelist and poet (born
1759 )
July 29 –
James Holman , English travel writer (born
1786 )
August 3 –
Eugène Sue , French novelist (born
1804 )
[18]
August 10 –
John Wilson Croker , Irish writer and statesman (born
1780 )
September 5 –
Auguste Comte , French philosopher (born
1798 )
September 18 –
Jean Baptiste Gustave Planche , French critic (born
1808 )
November 26 –
Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff , German poet and novelist (born
1788 )
December 13 –
Richard Furness , English poet (born
1791 )
Awards
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