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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1851. ==Events== *January 1 - The Georgian theatre company gives its first performance, under the direction of Giorgi Eristavi. *June 5 - Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel ''Uncle Tom's Cabin'' begins serialization in the American abolitionist weekly ''The National Era''. *June - While waiting to cross the English Channel on honeymoon, Matthew Arnold probably begins to compose the poem "Dover Beach".〔Published 1867. 〕 *September 29 - Marian Evans, the future George Eliot, takes up her appointment as (assistant) editor of the ''Westminster Review'', published by John Chapman, in which capacity she will meet G. H. Lewes. *November 14 - Herman Melville's novel ''Moby-Dick; or, The Whale'' is published in full, in a single volume, for the first time, by Harper & Brothers in New York, having been previously issued on October 18 as ''The Whale'' in an abridged 3-volume edition by Richard Bentley in London. *December 2 - French coup d'état of 1851. Victor Hugo is a leader of the unsuccessful insurrection against it and is forced into exile, initially to Brussels. *December 24 - A fire at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., destroys 35,000 books, about two–thirds of the collection. *Albertus Willem Sijthoff establishes his own publishing business at Leiden. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1851 in literature」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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