Events New Books Atherton - Mary Russell Mitford The Charge of the Light Brigade (poetry) - Alfred Lord Tennyson L'Ensorcelée - Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly Essence of Christianity - Ludwig Feuerbach Fashion and Famine - Ann Sophia Stephens Figlie del fuoco - Gerard Nerval Hard Times - Charles Dickens The Heir of Redclyffe - Charlotte Mary Yonge Hide and Seek - Wilkie Collins The Lamplighter - Maria Cummins The Lost Heiress - E. D. E. N. Southworth The Newcomers - William Makepeace Thackeray North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell The Planter's Northern Bride - Caroline Lee Hentz Sketches of Places and People Abroad - William Wells Brown Tempest and Sunshine - Mary Jane Holmes The Virginia Comedians - John Esten Cooke Walden or Life in the Woods - Henry David Thoreau Births Sarah Grand, author and women's rights advocate (+ 1943) October 16 - Oscar Wilde (+ 1900) Deaths Awards
New Books Atherton - Mary Russell Mitford The Charge of the Light Brigade (poetry) - Alfred Lord Tennyson L'Ensorcelée - Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly Essence of Christianity - Ludwig Feuerbach Fashion and Famine - Ann Sophia Stephens Figlie del fuoco - Gerard Nerval Hard Times - Charles Dickens The Heir of Redclyffe - Charlotte Mary Yonge Hide and Seek - Wilkie Collins The Lamplighter - Maria Cummins The Lost Heiress - E. D. E. N. Southworth The Newcomers - William Makepeace Thackeray North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell The Planter's Northern Bride - Caroline Lee Hentz Sketches of Places and People Abroad - William Wells Brown Tempest and Sunshine - Mary Jane Holmes The Virginia Comedians - John Esten Cooke Walden or Life in the Woods - Henry David Thoreau Births Sarah Grand, author and women's rights advocate (+ 1943) October 16 - Oscar Wilde (+ 1900) Deaths Awards