1857 in literature
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See also: 1856 in literature, other events of 1857, 1858 in literature, list of years in literature.
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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
- The Hasheesh Eater - Fitz Hugh Ludlow
- Les Fleurs du Mal (poetry) - Charles Baudelaire
- John Halifax, Gentleman - Dinah Maria Mulock (later "Dinah Craik")
- Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
- Married or Single? - Catharine Maria Sedgwick
- The Professor - Charlotte Brontë
- The Romany Rye - George 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 and poet
- June 8 - Douglas William Jerrold, British writer
- August 3 - Eugène Sue, novelist