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Charles Dickens writes '' Bleak House '', the first English novel to feature a detective.

William Wells Brown becomes the first African American novelist to be published.

NEW BOOKS

'' An Account Of Some Strange Disturbances In Aungier Street '' - Sheridan Le Fanu

'' Bartleby, The Scrivener '' - Herman Melville

'' Bleak House '' - Charles Dickens

'' Les Châtiments '' - Victor Hugo

'' Clotel; Or, The President's Daughter '' - William Wells Brown

'' The Countess De Charny '' - Alexandre Dumas, Père

'' Cranford '' - Elizabeth Gaskell

'' Digby Grand '' - George J. Whyte-Melville

'' Helen And Arthur '' - Caroline Lee Hentz

'' Hypatia '' - Charles Kingsley

'' Life In The Clearings '' - Susanna Moodie

'' Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour '' - Robert Smith Surtees

'' Peg Woffington '' - Charles Reade

'' Ruth '' - Elizabeth Gaskell

'' Villette '' - Charlotte Brontë

NEW DRAMA

Gustav Freytag - ''Die Journalisten''

Charles Reade - ''Gold''

POETRY

Matthew Arnold - ''The Scholar-Gipsy''

NON-FICTION

Johann Herzog - ''Encyclopedia of Protestant Theology''

Theodor Mommsen - ''History of Rome''

Hippolyte Taine - ''Essai sur les fables de La Fontaine''

BIRTHS

April 23 - Thomas Nelson Page , novelist (+ 1922 )

May 3 - Edgar Watson Howe , author and editor (+ 1937)

May 14 - Hall Caine , author (+ 1931 )

William Herrick Macaulay

DEATHS

January 3 - János Majláth , poet and historian

February 3 - August Kopisch , poet

April 4 - James Scholefield , classicist

April 28 - Ludwig Tieck , poet, novelist and translator

May 3 - Juan Donoso Cortés , political author

September 5 - Georges Depping , historian

October 29 - Thomas Jonathan Wooler , satirist

December 2 - Amelia Opie , poet and novelist

''date unknown'' - Sylvester Judd , novelist

AWARDS