On this day in literature
February 7
In literary history
- 1857Flaubert was acquitted of obscenity charges for Madame Bovary, whose serialisation had drawn the government's fury. The prosecution's careful citations of the most scandalous passages were the best advertisement a novel ever received.
Writers born on February 7
- Thomas More (1478),
- Charles Dickens (1812),
- Sinclair Lewis (1885)
The Daily Canon for February 7
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (1850).