Events New Books Adam Bede - George Eliot Aurora Leigh (poetry) - Elizabeth Barrett Browning Benito Cereno - Herman Melville The Daisy Chain - Charlotte Mary Yonge The Dead Secret - Wilkie Collins Dred, A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp - Harriet Beecher Stowe Ernest Linwood - Caroline Lee Hentz I and My Chimney - Herman Melville The Young Fur-Traders - RM Ballantyne Births April 5 - Booker T. Washington (+ 1915) May 15 - L. Frank Baum (+ 1919) July 26 - George Bernard Shaw (+ 1950) Deaths Awards