Events New Books L'Après-midi d'un faune - Stéphane Mallarmé Beauchamp's Career - George Meredith Cobwebs from an Empty Skull - Ambrose Bierce Les Diaboliques - Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly Le drageoir aux epices - Joris-Karl Huysmans The Frozen Deep and Other Stories - Wilkie Collins Harry Heathcote of Gangoil: A Tale of Australian Bush Life - Anthony Trollope The Impending Sword - Edmund Yates Johnny Ludlow - Mrs. Henry Wood Lady Anna - Anthony Trollope Lost For Love - Mary Elizabeth Braddon The Mysterious Island - Jules Verne A Night on the Borders of the Black Forest - Amelia Edwards Other People's Money - Emile Gaboriau The Pirate City - RM Ballantyne Prudence Palfrey - Thomas Bailey Aldrich The Rising Sun - William Wells Brown A Rose in June - Margaret Oliphant The Temptation of Saint Anthony - Gustave Flaubert Births January 16 - Robert W. Service, poet (+ 1958) January 25 - William Somerset Maugham, (+ 1965) February 1 - Hugo von Hofmannsthal, writer (+ 1929) February 3 - Gertrude Stein, writer and patron of the arts (+ 1946) February 9 - Amy Lowell, poet (+ 1925) February 11 - Elsa Beskow (Maartman), Swedish children's book/fairy tales author. March 20 - Börries von Münchhausen, poet (+ 1945) March 26 - Robert Frost, poet (+ 1963) May 29 - G. K. Chesterton (+ 1936) November 30 - Lucy Maud Montgomery Deaths Awards