 the year 1857 in literature involved some significant literary events and new publications. ==events== *january 5 - wilkie collins' drama the frozen deep is first performed in a private amateur performance staged by and featuring charles dickens at his london home, tavistock house. *january 10 - jules verne marries honorine de viane morel. *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 lÃ©vy frÃ¨res 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. *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&ndash;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. *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
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