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EVENTS

Bram Stoker begins work on '' Dracula ''

NEW BOOKS

'' Alas! '' - Rhoda Broughton

'' At Fault '' - Kate Chopin

'' The Bondman '' - Hall Caine

'' The Firm Of Girdlestone '' - Arthur Conan Doyle

'' A Hazard Of New Fortunes '' - William Dean Howells

'' The Light That Failed '' - Rudyard Kipling

'' Little Jarvis '' - Molly Elliot Seawell

'' One Life, One Love '' - Mary Elizabeth Braddon

'' The Picture Of Dorian Gray '' - Oscar Wilde

'' The Scapegoat '' - Hall Caine

'' The Sign Of Four '' - Arthur Conan Doyle

'' The Squatter's Dream '' - Rolf Boldrewood

'' Wormwood '' - Marie Corelli

NEW DRAMA

James Herne - '' Margaret Fleming ''

Henrik Ibsen - '' Hedda Gabler ''

POETRY

Edwin James Brady - '' The Way Of Many Rivers ''

NON-FICTION

Alfred Thayer Mahan - '' The Influence Of Sea Power Upon History ''

BIRTHS

February 10 - Boris Pasternak author (+ 1960 )

February 11 - John De Vries , writer

March 11 - Vannevar Bush , author (+ 1974 )

May 15 - Katherine Anne Porter , journalist and novelist

May 20 - Allan Nevins , historian and journalist

August 20 - H. P. Lovecraft , horror writer (+ 1937 )

August 28 - Ivor Gurney , war poet and composer

September 10 - Franz Werfel , author (+ 1945 )

September 15 - Agatha Christie , mystery writer (+ 1976 )

September 24 - A. P. Herbert , humorist and novelist

November 25 - Isaac Rosenberg , war poet

DEATHS

September 18 - Dion Boucicault , dramatist

October 19 - Sir Richard Burton , author

October 26 - Carlo Collodi , Italian Writer , the creator of '' Pinocchio ''

December 29 - Octave Feuillet , novelist and dramatist

AWARDS