Events July 4 - In Brooklyn, New York, Walt Whitman's first edition of his book of poem's titled Leaves of Grass is published. Thomas Babington Macaulay's best-selling History of England in four volumes is finished. Charles Dickens publishes the first installment of Little Dorritt (in installments through 1857). New Books Aurelia - Gerard Nerval Debit and Credit - Gustav Freytag The Hidden Path - Mary Virginia Hawes Israel Potter - Herman Melville Leaves of Grass (poetry) - Walt Whitman A Month in the Country - Ivan Turgenev The Old Homestead - Ann Sophia Stephens The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids - Herman Melville Robert Graham - Caroline Lee Hentz Song of Hiawatha (poetry) - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Story of My Life - George Sand The Warden - Anthony Trollope Westward Ho - Charles Kingsley Births May 1 - Marie Corelli (Mary Mackay) (+ 1924) Deaths January 10 - Mary Russell Mitford, English writer March 31 - Charlotte Bronte, author November 26 - Adam Mickiewicz, Poland's greatest poet Awards