Events New Books Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy Beatrice Tyldesley - William Harrison Ainsworth The Haunted Hotel - Wilkie Collins An Open Verdict - Mary Elizabeth Braddon Poganuc People: Their Loves and Lives - Harriet Beecher Stowe The Primrose Path - Margaret Oliphant The Return of the Native - Thomas Hardy Sans Famille - Hector Malot Births January 6 - Carl Sandburg, poet, historian (+ 1967) January 12 - Ferenc Molnár, writer (+ 1952) September 20 - Upton Sinclair (+ 1968) Deaths April 25 - Anna Sewell, author Awards