Events New Books Arne - Bjornstjerne Bjornson The Courtship of Miles Standish (poetry) - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Defence of Guenevere (poetry) - William Morris Doctor Thorne - Anthony Trollope Heckington - Catherine Gore A House of Gentlefolk - Ivan Turgenev Memoir of Joseph Curtis - Catharine Maria Sedgwick The Minister's Wooing - Harriet Beecher Stowe The Sad Fortunes of the Rev. Amos Barton - George Eliot Births Selma Lagerlof Swedish writer (+ 1940) Deaths Awards