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
• 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 Bronte
• The Romany Rye[?] - George Henry Borrow
• 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

Births

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

Deaths

• May 2 - Alfred de Musset, novelist
• June 8 - Douglas Jerrold[?], British writer
• August 3 - Eugène Sue[?], novelist

Awards