Events New Books L'Affaire Clemenceau - Alexandre Dumas, fils Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood - George MacDonald Armadale - Wilkie Collins Chandos - Ouida Cradock Nowell - Richard Doddridge Blackmore Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky Felix Holt, The Radical - George Eliot The Gambler - Fyodor Dostoevsky Hereward the Wake - Charles Kingsley Kapalkundala - Bankim Chatterjee The Lerouge Affair - Emile Gaboriau Miss Ravenel's Conversion - John William De Forest The Negro in the American Rebellion - William Wells Brown Surry of Eagle's-Nest - John Esten Cooke The Toilers of the Sea - Victor Hugo Births January 29 - Romain Rolland, Nobel Prize winning author, (+ 1944) July 28 - Beatrix Potter, Children's author (+ 1943) September 7 - Tristan Bernard, writer (+ 1947) September 21 - H. G. Wells, science fiction novelist (+ 1946) Deaths Awards