Luke Fildes – The Empty Chair (engraving). Fildes, the illustrator for Edwin Drood at the time of Charles Dickens's death, shows Dickens's empty chair in his study at Gads Hill Place. It appears in the Christmas edition of The Graphic and thousands of prints of it are sold.
March 28 – Serialisation of Kenward Philp's The Bowery Detective in The Fireside Companion (New York) begins, the first known story to include the word detective in the title.
↑ Jeffrey Brooks (2003). When Russia Learned to Read: Literacy and Popular Literature, 1861-1917. Northwestern University Press. p.111. ISBN0-8101-1897-1
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