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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1857. ==Events== *January 5 - Wilkie Collins' drama ''The Frozen Deep'' is first performed in a private amateur performance staged by and featuring Charles Dickens at the latter's London home, Tavistock House. *January 10 - Jules Verne marries Honorine de Viane Morel.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Jules Verne family tree )〕 thumb *February 7 - Gustave Flaubert's pioneering realist novel ''Madame Bovary'' is acquitted (but censured) on charges of offending morals and religion from its 1856 expurgated serialization. It is published complete in book form in April by Michel Lévy Frères in Paris. *May 5 - American publisher Moses Phillips hosts a dinner for Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., James Russell Lowell and other literary notables at the Parker House Hotel, Boston, Massachusetts, to agree the launch of ''The Atlantic Monthly'', "a magazine of literature, art, and politics", on November 1 with Lowell as first editor. *May 10 - Indian Rebellion of 1857 breaks out; it will feature extensively in subsequent fiction. *June 25 - Charles Baudelaire's collection of poems ''Les Fleurs du mal'' is published in Paris. He will be convicted and some of the most decadent poems suppressed on charges of offending morals and religion. *August 21–24 - Performances of Wilkie Collins' drama ''The Frozen Deep'' at the Free Trade Hall, Manchester, for the benefit of the widow of writer Douglas William Jerrold (died June 8), during which Charles Dickens, who is directing and performing, becomes infatuated with the professional actress Ellen Ternan.〔 *September - Obscene Publications Act 1857 is passed in the United Kingdom, making the sale of obscene material a statutory offence (although it gives no definition of obscenity). William Dugdale, a prime target of the act, is one of the first to be charged under it. The Act is replaced with a less stringent one in 1959. *September 25 - Eugène Sue's extended fiction ''Les Mystères du peuple'' is condemned on charges of offending morals and religion, the author having died on August 3. *George Eliot's ''Scenes of Clerical Life'' are serialized in ''Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine'' through the year, her first work of fiction and the first use of her pseudonym. *The British Museum Reading Room opens in London. 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「1857 in literature」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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