Events Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) named Poet Laureate of England. Periodical Household Words begins publication Henrik Ibsen's first play, The Burial Mound, is produced New Books Antonina - Wilkie Collins The Arabian Nights - Sir Richard Burton The Black Tulip - Alexandre Dumas, père Dictionary of the Norwegian Dialects - Ivar Aasen Linda - Caroline Lee Hentz A Month in the Country - Ivan Turgenev The Peasant War in Germany - Friedrich Engels Rena, the Snowbird - Caroline Lee Hentz The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne Sonnets from the Portuguese (Poetry) - Elizabeth Barrett Browning Tales of City Life - Catharine Maria Sedgwick Tristan le Roux - Alexandre Dumas, fils La Vendee - Anthony Trollope White-Jacket - Herman Melville The Wide, Wide World - Susan Warner Births January 15 - Mihai Eminescu, poet February 8 - Kate Chopin, author June 27 - Lafcadio Hearn, writer June 27 - Ivan Vazov, poet, novelist and playwright August 5 - Guy de Maupassant, writer September 2 - Eugene Field, poet and essayist November 5 - Ella Wheeler Wilcox, poet and journalist November 13 - Robert Louis Stevenson, novelist Deaths January 20 - Adam Oehlenschläger, poet April 23 - William Wordsworth, poet May 31 - Giuseppe Giusti, poet July 19 - Sarah Margaret Fuller, writer August 18 - Honoré de Balzac, novelist August 22 - Nikolaus Lenau, poet December 24 - Frederic Bastiat, philosopher and author Awards