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EVENTS

June 9 - Charles Dickens is involved in the Staplehurst Rail Crash .

November 18 - Mark Twain 's story '' The Celebrated Jumping Frog Of Calaveras County '' is published in the New York ''Saturday Press'' .

Edwin Abbott Abbott becomes headmaster of the City Of London School at the age of 26.

NEW BOOKS

'' Alec Forbes Of Howglen '' - George MacDonald

'' Alice's Adventures In Wonderland '' - Lewis Carroll

'' From The Earth To The Moon '' - Jules Verne

'' Germinie Lacerteux '' - Edmond De Goncourt

'' Guy Deverell '' - Sheridan Le Fanu

'' The Humbugs Of The World '' - P. T. Barnum

'' Iracema '' - José De Alencar

'' The Life Of Charlotte Bronte '' - Elizabeth Gaskell

''The Lighthouse'' - RM Ballantyne

'' Mr. Facey Romford's Hounds '' - Robert Smith Surtees

'' Our Mutual Friend '' - Charles Dickens

NEW DRAMA

Henrik Ibsen - '' Brand ''

POETRY

Edward Lear - ''The History of the Seven Families of the Lake Pipple-Popple''

NON-FICTION

Jacob Grimm - ''Deutsche Sagen''

Karl Marx - ''Value, Price and Profit''

John Stuart Mill - ''Examinations of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy''

BIRTHS

February 21 - John Haden Badley , teacher and writer (+ 1967)

March 15 - Edith Maude Eaton (Sui-Sin Far) (+ 1914 )

March 20 - Arthur Bayldon , poet (+ 1958)

March 29 - Stephen Bonsal , diplomat and writer (+ 1951)

June 13 - William Butler Yeats (+ 1939 )

June 26 - Bernard Berenson , art historian (+ 1959)

August 14 - Pietro Gori , poet (+ 1911)

September 11 - Rainis , poet and dramatist (+ 1929)

December 30 - Rudyard Kipling (+ 1936 )

''date unknown'' - Enrico Corradini , novelist and journalist (+ 1931)

DEATHS

January 11 - Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Ferland , historian

January 18 - Charles Cavendish Fulke Greville , diarist

January 19 - Pierre-Joseph Proudhon , philosopher

January 21 - Joseph Xavier Saintine , novelist and dramatist

February 6 - Isabella Beeton , household management expert

February 25 - Otto Ludwig , German novelist/playwright

April 2

--- John Cassell , publisher

--- Richard Cobden , political writer

May 14 - Pierre François Xavier De Ram , historian

June 10 - Lydia Sigourney , poet

September 30 - Dudley Costello , journalist and novelist

November 12 - Elizabeth Gaskell , novelist

December 1 - Abraham Emanuel Fröhlich , poet

December 3 - Joseph Marie Quérard , bibliographer

''date unknown'' - William Edmonstoune Aytoun , poet and humorist

AWARDS