Events March 4 - A Study in Scarlet, the first Sherlock Holmes story, begins. The first of the three-volume History of Woman Suffrage, was published by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. New Books Asphodel - Mary Elizabeth Braddon The Black Robe - Wilkie Collins The Cryptogram - Jules Verne Eight Hundred Leagues On The Amazon - Jules Verne En menage - Joris-Karl Huysmans God and the Man - Robert Buchanan The Great Infidels - Robert G. Ingersoll Harry Joscelyn - Margaret Oliphant Milly and Olly - Mary Augusta Ward The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James The Prince and the Pauper - Mark Twain Rajsimha - Bankim Chatterjee The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government - Jefferson Davis Stanley Brereton - William Harrison Ainsworth Sylvestre Bonnard - Anatole France Births March 25 - Mary Gladys Webb, writer (+ 1927) October 15 - P. G. Wodehouse, British-American writer (+ (1975) Deaths January 28 - Fyodor Dostoevsky, author April 19 - Benjamin Disraeli, writer, politician George Robert Aberigh-Mackay - English author Awards
Deaths January 28 - Fyodor Dostoevsky, author April 19 - Benjamin Disraeli, writer, politician George Robert Aberigh-Mackay - English author Awards