Events New Books The Admiral and His Protégé - Rosalia St. Clair Auchindrane - Sir Walter Scott The Barony - Anna Maria Porter Boris Godunov - Alexander Pushkin (written in 1825) The Corsair's Bride - Louisa Stanhope Crotchet Castle - Thomas Love Peacock The Doom of Devorgoil - Sir Walter Scott The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck - Mary Shelley The King's Own - Frederick Marryat A Mariner's Sketches - Nathaniel Ames Poems Chiefly Lyrical - Alfred Tennyson The Red and the Black - Stendhal A Tale of Our Times - Catharine Maria Sedgwick The Water-Witch - James Fenimore Cooper Births March 15 - Paul Heyse, writer and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature 1910 (+ 1914) May 20: Hector Malot, French writer of Without family (+ 1907) December 5 - Christina Georgina Rossetti (+ 1894) English poet December 10 - Emily Dickinson, American poet (+ 1886) December 17 - Jules de Goncourt, Prix Goncourt (+ 1870) Deaths September 18 - William Hazlitt, British essayist Awards