Events New Books Colomba - Prosper Mérimée Democracy in America (vol. 2) - Alexis de Tocqueville A Hero of Our Time - Mikhail Lermontov The Hour and the Man - Harriet Martineau The Novice (poetry) - Mikhail Lermontov The Old Curiosity Shop - Charles Dickens Olla Podrida - Frederick Marryat Otho the Archer - Alexandre Dumas, père Poor Jack - Frederick Marryat Les Rayons et les Ombres - Victor Hugo Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque - Edgar Allan Poe The Tower of London - William Harrison Ainsworth Two Years Before the Mast - Richard Henry Dana, Jr Births April 2 - Emile Zola, writer (+ 1902) June 2 - Thomas Hardy, novelist (+ 1928) November 29 - Rhoda Broughton (+ 1920) Deaths January 6 - Fanny Burney, novelist Awards