Events New Books The Bohemians of the Latin Quarter - Henri Murger Dombey and Son - Charles Dickens The Emigrants of Ahadarra - William Carleton Francois the Waif - George Sand Harold - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain - Charles Dickens Life in the Wilds of North America - RM Ballantyne The Little Savage - Frederick Marryat The Man in the Iron Mask - Alexandre Dumas, père Mary Barton - Elizabeth Gaskell Pendennis - William Makepeace Thackeray The Queen's Necklace - Alexandre Dumas, père The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Bronte Valerie - Frederick Marryat Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray Births February 5 - Joris-Karl Huysmans, writer (+ 1907) February 16 - Octave Mirbeau, novelist (+ 1917) February 24 - Grant Allen, writer (+ 1899) Deaths January 19 - Isaac D'Israeli, author July 4 - François-René de Chateaubriand, writer August 9 - Frederick Marryat, novelist December 19 - Emily Bronte, writer Awards