1857 in literature

See also: 1856 in literature, other events of 1857, 1858 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

• Jules Verne marries Honorine de Viane Morel.

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
• John Halifax, Gentleman - Dinah Maria Mulock (later "Dinah Craik")
• Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
• Married or Single? - Catharine Maria Sedgwick
• Nachsommer - Adalbert Stifter
• The Necromancer - G.W.M. Reynolds
• The Professor - Charlotte Brontë
• The Romany Rye - George Borrow
• Seul - Joseph Xavier Saintine
• To Be or Not to Be - Hans Christian Andersen
• Tom Brown's Schooldays - Thomas Hughes
• The Two Aristocracies - Catherine Gore
• Ungava: a Tale of Eskimo Land - RM Ballantyne
• The Virginians - William Makepeace Thackeray
• The Wolf Leader - Alexandre Dumas

Poetry

• Charles Baudelaire - Les Fleurs du mal

Non-fiction

• Delia Bacon - The Philosophy of Shakespeare's Plays

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