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EVENTS
Ambrose Bierce
is wounded at the
Battle Of Kennesaw Mountain
.
Charles Baudelaire
leaves Paris for Belgium in the hope of resolving his financial difficulties.
Henrik Ibsen
leaves Norway for Italy in a self-imposed exile that will last for 27 years.
A debate at the
Royal Geographical Society
between
Richard Francis Burton
and
John Hanning Speke
fails to take place, owing to Speke's suicide (or accidental shooting).
Alexandre Dumas, Fils
marries Nadeja Naryschkine. His
Alexandre Dumas, Père
, returns to Paris from Italy.
John Addington Symonds
the younger marries Janet Catherine North.
James Payn
publishes his most popular story, ''Lost Sir Massingberd'', in ''Chambers's Journal''.
NEW BOOKS
''
Brother Jacob
'' -
George Eliot
''
Chevalier Destouches
'' -
Jules Amédée Barbey D'Aurevilly
''
Clara Vaughan
'' -
Richard Doddridge Blackmore
'''' -
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
''
Journey To The Center Of The Earth
'' -
Jules Verne
''Narrative of the Life of J. D. Green, a Runaway Slave from Kentucky''
''
Notes From The Underground
'' -
Fyodor Dostoevsky
''
Renée Mauperin
'' -
Edmond De Goncourt
&
Jules De Goncourt
''
Uncle Silas
'' -
Sheridan Le Fanu
''
Wives And Daughters
'' -
Elizabeth Gaskell
''
The Wylder's Hand
'' -
Sheridan Le Fanu
POETRY
Robert Browning
- ''Dramatis Personae''
Alfred Tennyson
- ''
Enoch Arden
''
Alfred De Vigny
- ''Les Destinées'' (posthumously published)
NON-FICTION
American Dictionary Of The English Language (Webster's)
, revised edition
John Henry Cardinal Newman
- ''
Apologia Pro Vita Sua
''
John Ruskin
- ''Cestus of Aglaia''
BIRTHS
January 24
-
Marguerite Durand
, French actress, journalist, and feminist leader (d.
1936
)
February 14
-
Israel Zangwill
, novelist and playwright, (d.
1926
)
April 21
-
Max Weber
, sociologist
July 20
-
Erik Axel Karlfeldt
, Swedish writer,
Nobel Prize
laureate (d.
1931
)
October 14
-
Stefan Żeromski
, novelist, poet and dramatist
November 11
-
Alfred Hermann Fried
, pacifist writer, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize
(d.
1921
)
December 12
-
Paul Elmer More
, critic and essayist (d.
1937
)
DEATHS
January 29
-
Lucy Aikin
, historian
February 2
-
Adelaide Anne Procter
, poet
March 16
-
Robert Smith Surtees
, novelist and sports writer
May 19
-
Nathaniel Hawthorne
, novelist
May 20
-
John Clare
, poet
May 26
-
Charles Sealsfield
, novelist
July 4
-
Thomas Colley Grattan
, novelist
August 7
-
Janez Puhar
, poet
September
-
Antônio Gonçalves Dias
, poet (lost at sea)
September 17
-
Walter Savage Landor
, poet
''date unknown'' -
Anton Felix Schindler
, biographer of Beethoven
AWARDS