Events The Rabelais Club founded in London, England, holding a literary dinner once every two months. High-profile members included novelists Henry James, Thomas Hardy, Bret Harte, and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Walter Besant, and George Du Maurier. New Books Beau Nash - William Harrison Ainsworth The Begum's Fortune - Jules Verne The Cloven Foot - Mary Elizabeth Braddon Daisy Miller - Henry James The Egoist - George Meredith The Fallen Leaves - Wilkie Collins Jack and Jill: A Village Story - Louisa May Alcott John Caldigate - Anthony Trollope Kings in Exile - Alphonse Daudet The Red Room - August Strindberg Roda Rummet - August Strindberg A Rogue's Life - Wilkie Collins Les Soeurs Vatard - Joris-Karl Huysmans Vixen - Mary Elizabeth Braddon Births January 1 - E.M. Forster (+ 1970) April 14 - James Branch Cabell, (+ 1958) Deaths February 11 - Willem J van Zeggelen, Dutch author October 31 - Jacob Abbott, writer Awards