1881 in literature

1881 in literature

The year 1881 in literature involved some significant new books.

Events

* March 4 - "A Study in Scarlet", the first Sherlock Holmes story, begins.
* The first of the three-volume "History of Woman Suffrage", was published by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
* The Pushkin Prize is established by the Russian Academy of Sciences.

New books

*William Harrison Ainsworth - "Stanley Brereton"
*Mary Elizabeth Braddon - "Asphodel"
*Robert Buchanan - "God and the Man"
*Gesualdo Bufalino - "Diceria dell'untore"
*Bankim Chatterjee - "Rajsimha"
*Wilkie Collins - "The Black Robe"
*Antonio Fogazzaro - "Malombra"
*Anatole France - "Sylvestre Bonnard"
*Thomas Hardy - "A Laodicean"
*Joris-Karl Huysmans - "En menage"
*Robert G. Ingersoll - "The Great Infidels"
*Henry James - "The Portrait of a Lady"
*Roden Noël - "A Little Child's Monument"
*Margaret Oliphant - "Harry Joscelyn"
*Joseph Henry Shorthouse - "John Inglesant"
*Jules Verne - "Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon"
*Mary Augusta Ward - "Milly and Olly"

New drama

*Henrik Ibsen - "Ghosts (Gengangere)" (published)

Non-fiction

*Jefferson Davis - "The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government"

Births

* January 9 - Giovanni Papini, Italian writer (d. 1956)
* March 25 - Mary Webb, British writer (d. 1927)
* October 15 - P. G. Wodehouse, British-American writer (d. 1975)

Deaths

* January 28 - Fyodor Dostoevsky, author
* April 19 - Benjamin Disraeli, writer, politician
* George Robert Aberigh-Mackay - English author

Awards

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