Events New Books After Dark - Wilkie Collins Anandmath - Bankim Chatterjee Bimbi: Stories for Children - Ouida Christowell - Richard Doddridge Blackmore The Fixed Period - Anthony Trollope The Green Ray - Jules Verne Hopes and Fears for Art - William Morris The Naval War of 1812 - Theodore Roosevelt The New Arabian Nights - Robert Louis Stevenson The Prince and the Pauper - Mark Twain Recollections of Rossetti - Hall Caine Births January 18 - A. A. Milne, British author (+ 1956) January 25 - Virginia Woolf, writer (+ 1941) February 2 - James Joyce, author (+ 1941) May 20 - Sigrid Undset, Norwegian author (+ 1949) December 13 - André Billy, French author (+ 1971) Deaths January 6 - Richard Henry Dana, Jr, author March 24 - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, author April 10 - Dante Gabriel Rossetti, poet August 1 - Henry Kendall, poet December 6 - Anthony Trollope, novelist Awards