Events New Books The Caged Lion - Charlotte Mary Yonge The Eternal Husband - Fyodor Dostoevsky Lothair - Benjamin Disraeli Man and Wife - Wilkie Collins The Mystery of Edwin Drood - Charles Dickens An Old Fashioned Girl - Louisa May Alcott Red as a rose is she - Rhoda Broughton The Story of a Bad Boy - Thomas Bailey Aldrich The Terrible Sights of London - Thomas Archer 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne The Vicar of Bullhampton - Anthony Trollope Births March 5 - Frank Norris (d. 1902) June 25 - Erskine Childers (d. 1922) July 27 - Hilaire Beloc (d. 1953) December 18 - Saki (d. 1916) Deaths June 9 - Charles Dickens, British novelist June 11 - William Gilmore Simms, author July 20 - Jules de Goncourt, Prix Goncourt November 4 - Comte de Lautreamont, French poet and writer December 5 - Alexandre Dumas, père, author Awards
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