Events\n* \nNew Books\n*Around the World in Eighty Days - Jules Verne\n*La Corde au cou - Emile Gaboriau\n*Far From the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy \n*The Fiend's Delight - Ambrose Bierce \n*The Gilded Age - Mark Twain (with Charles Warner)\n*Miss or Mrs - Wilkie Collins\n*Nancy - Rhoda Broughton \n*The New Magdalen - Wilkie Collins\n*The Poison Tree - Bankim Chatterjee\n*Publicans and Sinners - Mary Elizabeth Braddon\n*Quatre-vingt-treize - Victor Hugo\n*Sea-gift - Edwin W. Fuller\n*Tales for Christmas Eve - Rhoda Broughton\n*Work: A Story of Experience - Louisa May Alcott \nBirths\n* January 20 - Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, Danish writer, Nobel prize winner († 1950)\n* January 28 - Colette, writer († 1954)\n* April 22 - Ellen Glasgow († 1945)\n* May 17 - Henri Barbusse († 1935)\n* December 7 - Willa Cather († 1947) \n* December 17 - Ford Madox Ford († 1939) Deaths\n* January 18 - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, author\n* February 7 - Sheridan Le Fanu, writer\n* September 28 - Emile Gaboriau, novelist \nAwards\n* *