Events February 1 - Edition one of the Oxford English Dictionary is published. New Books The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain Controcorrente - Joris-Karl Huysmans The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Leo Tolstoy 'I Say No' - Wilkie Collins Ishmael. A Novel - Mary Elizabeth Braddon The Ladies Lindores - Margaret Oliphant Miss Bretherton - Mary Augusta Ward A Mummer's Wife - George A. Moore Ramona - Helen Hunt Jackson A rebours - Joris-Karl Huysmans Tommy Upmore - Richard Doddridge Blackmore The Wizard's Son - Margaret Oliphant Births January 2 - Oscar Micheaux, African-American author & filmmaker (+ 1951) March 13 - Sir Hugh Walpole, novelist (+ 1941) Deaths November 6 - William Wells Brown, African-American writer April 11 - Charles Reade, English writer Awards