Events New Books Around the World in Eighty Days - Jules Verne La Corde au cou - Emile Gaboriau Far From the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy The Fiend's Delight - Ambrose Bierce The Gilded Age - Mark Twain (with Charles Warner) Miss or Mrs - Wilkie Collins Nancy - Rhoda Broughton The New Magdalen - Wilkie Collins The Poison Tree - Bankim Chatterjee Publicans and Sinners - Mary Elizabeth Braddon Sea-gift - Edwin W. Fuller Tales for Christmas Eve - Rhoda Broughton Work: A Story of Experience - Louisa May Alcott Births January 20 - Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, Danish writer, Nobel prize winner († 1950) January 28 - Colette, writer († 1954) April 22 - Ellen Glasgow († 1945) May 17 - Henri Barbusse († 1935) December 7 - Willa Cather († 1947) December 17 - Ford Madox Ford († 1939) Deaths January 18 - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, author February 7 - Sheridan Le Fanu, writer September 28 - Emile Gaboriau, novelist Awards
