Events First edition of the World Almanac published New Books Biarritz - Hermann Goedsche Dead-Sea Fruit - Mary Elizabeth Braddon Deep Down - RM Ballantyne Haunted Lives - Sheridan Le Fanu The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoevsky Little Meg's children - Hesba Stretton Little Women - Louisa May Alcott The Luck of Roaring Camp - Bret Harte The Moonstone - Wilkie Collins Robert Falconer - George MacDonald Slaves of Paris - Emile Gaboriau Births February 23 - W. E. B. Du Bois (+ 1963) March 28 - Maxim Gorky, author (+ 1936) May 6 - Gaston Leroux, author (+ 1927) October 18 - Ernst Didring, Swedish writer (+ 1931) Deaths June 18 - Charles Harpur, Australian poet Awards
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