Events Charles Dickens publishes the final installment of Little Dorritt. New Books Barchester Towers - Anthony Trollope The Confidence Man - Herman Melville The Coral Island - RM Ballantyne The Dead Secret - Wilkie Collins Les Fleurs du Mal (poetry) - Charles Baudelaire John Halifax, Gentleman - Dinah Maria Mulock Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert Married or Single - Catharine Maria Sedgwick The Professor - Charlotte Bronte The Romany Rye - George Borrow To Be or Not to Be - Hans Christian Andersen Tom Brown's Schooldays - Thomas Hughes The Two Aristocracies - Catherine Gore Ungava: a Tale of Eskimo Land - RM Ballantyne The Virginians - William Makepeace Thackeray Births December 3 - Joseph Conrad (+ 1924) February 23 - Margaret Deland (+ 1945) November 22 - George Gissing (+ 1903) Deaths May 2 - Alfred de Musset, novelist and poet June 8 - Douglas Jerrold, British writer August 3 - Eugène Sue, novelist Awards