This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1857 .
February 7 – Gustave Flaubert 's pioneering realist novel Madame Bovary 1856 expurgated serialization. It is published complete in book form in April by Michel Lévy Frères in Paris.May 2 – The British Museum Reading Room opens in London.[3] 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 November 1 with Lowell as first editor.June 25 – Charles Baudelaire 's collection of poems Les Fleurs du mal decadent poems suppressed on charges of offending morals and religion.[4] August 21 – 24 – Performances of Wilkie Collins ' drama The Frozen Deep 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 .[5]
September 25 – Eugène Sue 's extended fiction Les Mystères du peuple is condemned on charges of offending morals and religion,[6] 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 Boston , Massachusetts, by Phillips, Sampson and Company.unknown dates – George Eliot 's Scenes of Clerical Life Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine pseudonym .[7] New books
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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 )[12] 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 )[13] 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 )
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 )[14] May 2 – Alfred de Musset , French novelist and poet (heart failure, born 1810 )[15] June 8 – Douglas William Jerrold , English dramatist (born 1803 )[16] 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 )[17] 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 ) References
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