Table of contents

1 Events 2 New Books 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Awards

Events

• Aurora Floyd - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
• The Black Man: His Antecedents, His Genius and His Achievements - William Wells Brown
• Capitan Fracassa - Theophile Gauthier
• The Cossacks - Leo Tolstoy
• Cudjo's Cave - John Townsend Trowbridge
• Eleanor's Victory - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
• Five Weeks in a Balloon - Jules Verne
• The House by the Churchyard - Sheridan Le Fanu
• The Life of Jesus - Ernest Renan
• The Man Without a Country - Edward Everett Hale
• Marian Grey - Mary Jane Holmes
• Romola - George Eliot
• Sylvia's Lovers - Elizabeth Gaskell
• The Water-Babies - Charles Kingsley

• March 12 - Gabriele D'Annunzio, poet
• August 7 - Gene Stratton Porter, American novelist and naturalist
• November 1 - Arthur Morrison

• September 17 - Alfred de Vigny, author