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EVENTS
Arthur Schopenhauer
adds a chapter on "The Metaphysics of Sexual Love" to the third edition of his ''The World as Will and Representation''.
Lewis Carroll
takes up photography as a hobby.
William Henry Smith
first makes the claim that the author of Shakespeare's plays was Sir
Francis Bacon
.
Richard Francis Burton
serves in the army in the
Crimean War
and becomes engaged to Isabel Arundel.
Alphonse Daudet
begins his teaching career.
NEW BOOKS
''
Adam Bede
'' -
George Eliot
''
The Piazza Tales
'' -
Herman Melville
''Cinco Minutos'' -
José De Alencar
''
The Daisy Chain
'' -
Charlotte Mary Yonge
''
The Dead Secret
'' -
Wilkie Collins
''
Dred, A Tale Of The Great Dismal Swamp
'' -
Harriet Beecher Stowe
''
Ernest Linwood
'' -
Caroline Lee Hentz
''
I And My Chimney
'' -
Herman Melville
''It's Never Too Late to Mend'' -
Charles Reade
''Die Leute von Seldwyla'' -
Gottfried Keller
''Mozart auf der Reise nach Prag'' -
Eduard Mörike
''
The Sorrows Of Gentility
'' -
Geraldine Jewsbury
''
The Young Fur-Traders
'' -
RM Ballantyne
NEW DRAMA
Henrik Ibsen
- ''The Banquet at Solhaug''
POETRY
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- ''
Aurora Leigh
''
Victor Hugo
- ''Les Contemplations''
NON-FICTION
J. A. Froude
- ''History of England''
Rudolf Lotze
- ''Mikrokosmos''
Alexis De Tocqueville
- ''L'Ancien régime et la révolution''
BIRTHS
February 14
-
Frank Harris
, journalist, publisher and memoirist (+ 1931)
April 5
-
Booker T. Washington
(+
1915
)
May 15
-
L. Frank Baum
, ''Wizard of Oz'' author (+
1919
)
July 25
-
Charles Major
(+
1913
)
July 26
-
George Bernard Shaw
, dramatist (+
1950
)
DEATHS
January
-
James Baillie Fraser
, travel writer
February 17
-
Heinrich Heine
, poet
June 11
-
Friedrich Heinrich Von Der Hagen
, philologist
June 26
-
Max Stirner
, philosopher
June 27
-
Joseph Meyer
, publisher
July 21
-
Emil Aarestrup
, poet
July 29
-
Karel Havlíček Borovský
, poet, critic and publisher
August 24
-
William Buckland
, antiquarian
August 30
-
Gilbert Abbott à Beckett
, humorous writer
October 13
-
Robert Christie
, historian and journalist
November 10
-
Johann Kaspar Zeuß
, historian
''date unknown'' -
Pyotr Chaadaev
, philosopher
''date unknown'' -
Josef Kajetán Tyl
, dramatist and author of the Czech national anthem
AWARDS