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EVENTS

January - First issue of the '' Cornhill Magazine ''

'' becomes the first Dime Novel to be published.

Fyodor Dostoevsky returns to St Petersburg.

Mary Elizabeth Braddon meets her future husband John Maxwell .

Alexander Bain is appointed to the chair of logic and English literature at the University Of Aberdeen .

The ''Univers religieux'' is suppressed by the French government.

Samuel Wilberforce and Thomas Huxley debate the theories of Charles Darwin at the Oxford University Museum Of Natural History .

The first '' Vanity Fair '' magazine is published in the USA.

NEW BOOKS

'' Charles Demailly '' - Edmond & Jules De Goncourt

'' The Dog Crusoe '' - RM Ballantyne

'' Evan Harrington '' - George Meredith

'' The Fall Of The Alamo '' - R.M. Potter

'' Hopes And Fears '' - Charlotte Mary Yonge

'' Kenneth '' - Charlotte Mary Yonge

'' The Marble Faun '' - Nathaniel Hawthorne

'' Max Havelaar '' - Multatuli

'' The Mill On The Floss '' - George Eliot

'' Poor Rich '' - Mor Jokai

'' The Woman In White '' - Wilkie Collins

NON-FICTION

Eugène Crepet - ''Poètes francais; Les Paradis artificiels: opium et haschisch''

Ralph Waldo Emerson - '' The Conduct Of Life ''

'' Gray's Anatomy '', 2nd edition

John Ruskin - ''Modern Painters IV''

BIRTHS

January 10 - Charles G.D. Roberts , poet (+ 1943 )

January 29 - Anton Chekhov (+ 1904 )

February 11 - Rachilde (Marguerite Vallette-Eymery), French author (+ 1953 )

May 9 - J. M. Barrie , novelist and dramatist (+ 1937 )

June 6 - William Ralph Inge , theologian

July 3 - Charlotte Perkins Gilman , novelist and short story writer (+ 1935 )

September 13 - Ralph Connor , Canadian novelist (+ 1937 )

September 14 - Hamlin Garland (+ 1940 )

October 23 - Molly Elliot Seawell (+ 1916 )

December 11 - Leonard Huxley , writer and editor, father of Aldous Huxley

''date unknown'' - Harriet Theresa Comstock , children's author

DEATHS

January 29 - Ernst Moritz Arndt , poet

February 9 - William Evans Burton , dramatist

February 25 - Chauncey Allen Goodrich , lexicographer

May 9 - Samuel Griswold Goodrich , children's author (Peter Parley)

May 16 - Annabella Byron, 11th Baroness Wentworth , wife of Lord Byron

May 23 - Albert Richard Smith , journalist and humorist

August 25

--- Christian Lobeck , classical scholar

--- Johan Ludvig Heiberg , poet

September 21 - Arthur Schopenhauer , philosopher

December 2 - Ferdinand Christian Baur , theologian

AWARDS