Events New Books The Black Band - Mary Elizabeth Braddon The Cloister and the Hearth - Charles Reade Framely Parsonage - Anthony Trollope Great Expectations - Charles Dickens Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl - Harriet Ann Jacobs Market Harborough - George J Whyte-Melville The Octoroon - Mary Elizabeth Braddon Orley Farm - Anthony Trollope Silas Marner - George Eliot The Young Step-Mother - Charlotte Mary Yonge Births April 15 - Bliss Carman, poet (+ 1929) Deaths January 29, Catherine Gore, author June 29 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, poet Awards