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EVENTS

February 1 - Edition one of the '' Oxford English Dictionary '' is published.

NEW BOOKS

'' Controcorrente '' - Joris-Karl Huysmans

'' The Death Of Ivan Ilyich '' - Leo Tolstoy

'' 'I Say No' '' - Wilkie Collins

'' Ishmael. A Novel '' - Mary Elizabeth Braddon

'' The Ladies Lindores '' - Margaret Oliphant

'' Miss Bretherton '' - Mary Augusta Ward

'' A Mummer's Wife '' - George A. Moore

'' Ramona '' - Helen Hunt Jackson

'' À Rebours '' - Joris-Karl Huysmans

'' Tommy Upmore '' - Richard Doddridge Blackmore

'' The Wizard's Son '' - Margaret Oliphant

BIRTHS

January 2 - Oscar Micheaux , African-American author & filmmaker (+ 1951 )

March 13 - Sir Hugh Walpole , novelist (+ 1941 )

August 8 – Sara Teasdale , poet (d. 1933 )

August 10 - Panait Istrati , Romania n novelist and short story writer (d. 1935 )

August 24 - Earl Derr Biggers , writer

DEATHS

November 6 - William Wells Brown , African-American writer

April 11 - Charles Reade , English writer

AWARDS