Events New Books Barry Lyndon - William Makepeace Thackeray The Chimes - Charles Dickens Condition of the Working Classes in England - Friedrich Engels Coningsby - Benjamin Disraeli Les Paysans - Honore de Balzac Poems (poetry) - Elizabeth Barrett Browning Settlers in Canada - Frederick Marryat Struwwelpeter - Heinrich Hoffmann The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas, père Tom Burke of Ours - Charles Lever Twenty Years After - Alexandre Dumas, père Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation - Robert Chambers The Wandering Jew - Eugène Sue The Wrongs of Women - Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna Births March 30 - Paul Verlaine, lyric poet (+ 1896) April 16 - Anatole France, writer (+ 1924) Deaths January 27 - Charles Nodier, writer Awards