Events New Books Charles Demailly - Edmond & Jules de Goncourt The Conduct of Life - Ralph Waldo Emerson The Dog Crusoe - RM Ballantyne Evan Harrington - George Meredith The Fall of the Alamo - R.M. Potter Hopes and Fears - Charlotte Mary Yonge Kenneth - Charlotte Mary Yonge La Dame de Montsoreau - Alexandre Dumas, père The Marble Faun - Nathaniel Hawthorne Max Havelaar - Multatuli The Mill on the Floss - George Eliot Poor Rich - Mór Jókai The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins Births January 29 - Anton Chekhov (+ 1904) February 11 - Rachilde (Marguerite Vallette-Eymery), French author (+ 1953) May 9 - J. M. Barrie, novelist and dramatist (+ 1937) September 14 - Hamlin Garland (+ 1940) October 23 - Molly Elliot Seawell (+ 1916) Deaths Awards