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Contents 1 Events 2 New books 3 New drama 4 Poetry 5 Non-fiction 6 Births 7 Deaths 8 Awards

[edit] Events

• The first volumes of the Patrologia Latina, a 217 volume collection of works in Latin, are published in Paris by Jacques Paul Migne. The initial volumes include the writings of Tertullian and Cyprian, among other authors.

[edit] New books

• Barry Lyndon - William Makepeace Thackeray
• The Chimes - Charles Dickens
• Condition of the Working Classes in England - Friedrich Engels
• The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas, père
• Coningsby - Benjamin Disraeli
• Les Paysans - Honoré de Balzac
• The Mysteries of London - G.W.M. Reynolds
• Settlers in Canada - Frederick Marryat
• Struwwelpeter - Heinrich Hoffmann
• The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas, père
• Tom Burke of Ours - Charles Lever
• Twenty Years After - Alexandre Dumas, père
• The Wandering Jew - Eugène Sue
• The Wrongs of Women - Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna

[edit] New drama

• Christian Friedrich Hebbel - Maria Magdalene
• Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - Life of Arnold

[edit] Poetry

• Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Poems
• Heinrich Heine - Neue Gedichte
• James Russell Lowell - Poems
• Coventry Patmore - Poems

[edit] Non-fiction

• Robert Chambers(published anonymously) - Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation

[edit] Births

• March 30 - Paul Verlaine, lyric poet
• April 2 - George Haven Putnam, American author, publisher
• April 16 - Anatole France, writer
• July 28 - Gerard Manley Hopkins

[edit] Deaths

• January 27 - Charles Nodier, writer
• June 15 - Thomas Campbell, poet
• November 21 - Ivan Krylov, fable-writer

[edit] Awards

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