Events New Books The Castle of Fratta - Ippolito Nievo The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County - Mark Twain Circe - Mary Elizabeth Braddon Cometh Up as a Flower - Rhoda Broughton Jessica's First Prayer - Hesba Stretton The Legend of Tyl Ulensp - Charles Theodore Henri de Coster The Life and Death of Jason - William Morris Manette Salomon - Edmond & Jules de Goncourt The Mystery of Orcival - Emile Gaboriau Not Wisely, But Too Well - Rhoda Broughton Peer Gynt - Henrik Ibsen The Possessed - Fyodor Dostoevsky St. Elmo - Augusta Evans Smoke - Ivan Turgenev Teresa Raquin - Emile Zola Under Two Flags - Ouida Births February 7 - Laura Ingalls Wilder (+ 1957) February 18 - Hedwig Courths-Mahler, novelist (+ 1950) May 27 - Arnold Bennett (+ 1931) Deaths July 31 - Catharine Maria Sedgwick, American author August 31 - Charles-Pierre Baudelaire, French poet and writer Thomas Bulfinch, American author Awards