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| 1855 |
| | | English author Anthony Trollope publishes The Warden, the first in his series of six Barsetshire novels | |
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| 1856 |
| | | Gustave Flaubert publishes Madame Bovary, a novel of frustrated romanticism in a provincial French context | |
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| 1857 |
| | | Charles Baudelaire publishes his first and extremely influential collection of poems, Les Fleurs du Mal | |
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| 1857 |
| | | In Tom Brown's Schooldays Thomas Hughes depicts the often brutal aspects of an English public school | |
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| 1858 |
| | | Oliver Wendell Holmes' book The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table is the first in a breakfast-table series | |
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| 1858 |
| | | Longfellow uses a romantic story of early New England for his narrative poem The Courtship of Miles Standish | |
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| 1859 |
| | | Charles Darwin puts forward the theory of evolution in On the Origin of Species, the result of 20 years' research | |
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| 1859 February |
| | | English author George Eliot wins fame with her first full-length novel, Adam Bede | |
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| 1859 |
| | | French author Stendhal publishes his novel La Chartreuse de Parme ('The Charterhouse of Parma') | |
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| 1859 |
| | | In On Liberty John Stuart Mill makes the classic liberal case for the priority of the freedom of the individual | |
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