Events New Books Aurora Floyd - Mary Elizabeth Braddon The Black Man: His Antecedents, His Genius and His Achievements - William Wells Brown Capitan Fracassa - Theophile Gauthier The Cossacks - Leo Tolstoy Cudjo's Cave - John Townsend Trowbridge Eleanor's Victory - Mary Elizabeth Braddon Five Weeks in a Balloon - Jules Verne The House by the Churchyard - Sheridan Le Fanu The Life of Jesus - Ernest Renan The Man Without a Country - Edward Everett Hale Marian Grey - Mary Jane Holmes Romola - George Eliot Sylvia's Lovers - Elizabeth Gaskell The Water-Babies - Charles Kingsley Births March 12 - Gabriele D'Annunzio, poet (+ 1938) November 1 - Arthur Morrison (+ 1945) Deaths September 17 - Alfred de Vigny, author Awards
Deaths September 17 - Alfred de Vigny, author Awards