1857 in literature

1857 in literature
This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "1857_in_literature".

content

List of years in literature (table)
… 1847 ^. 1848 ^. 1849 ^. 1850 ^. 1851 ^. 1852 ^. 1853 … 1854 1855 1856 -1857- 1858 1859 1860 … 1861 ^. 1862 ^. 1863 ^. 1864 ^. 1865 ^. 1866 ^. 1867 … In poetry: 1854 1855 1856 -1857- 1858 1859 1860
Related time period or subjects
… 1854 ^. 1855 ^. 1856 - 1857 - 1858 ^. 1859 ^. 1860 … … 1820s ^. 1830s ^. 1840s -1850s- 1860s ^. 1870s ^. 1880s … … 18th century ^. 19th century ^. 20th century …
Art ^. Archaeology ^. Architecture ^. Literature ^. Music ^. Science +...

The year 1857 in literature involved some significant new books.

Contents

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

Events

Jules Verne marries Honorine de Viane Morel.

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

Poetry

Charles Baudelaire - Les Fleurs du mal

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

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
February 3 - Robert Isaac Wilberforce, historian and religious writer
March 26 - John Mitchell Kemble, historian
May 2 - Alfred de Musset, novelist and poet
June 8 - Douglas William Jerrold, British writer
July 29, James Holman, travel writer
August 3 - Eugène Sue, novelist
August 10 - John Wilson Croker, political writer
September 18 - Jean Baptiste Gustave Planche, critic
December 13 - Richard Furness, poet

Awards

© jGames.co.uk 2007 (some content from Wikipedia under GDL ) !-- ValueClick Media 468x60 and 728x90 Banner CODE for jgames.co.uk -->