August 25 – 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.[7]
September 25 – Eugène Sue's extended fiction Les Mystères du peuple is condemned on charges of offending morals and religion,[8] the author having died on August 3.
October – The Sacramento Library Association, predecessor of Sacramento Public Library, is established as a public subscription library in Sacramento, California, by members of the "Big Four" and other prominent citizens.
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↑ Hauge, Ingard (1975). "Poetisk realisme og nasjonalromantikk". In Beyer, Edvard (ed.). Norges Litteraturhistorie (in Norwegian). Vol.2. Oslo: Cappelen. pp.318–325.
↑ E. H. Chalus: "Fremantle, Elizabeth, Lady Fremantle (1778–1857)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: OUP, online ed. May 2009) Retrieved 5 September 2010.
↑ Alfred de Musset (2001). Twelve Plays. E. Mellen Press. p.1. ISBN9780773474161.
↑ Miles, Alfred H., ed. (1907). The Sacred Poets of the Nineteenth Century. The Poets and the Poetry of the Nineteenth Century XI. London: Routledge.
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