1881 in literature
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The year 1881 in literature involved some significant new books.
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[edit] 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.
[edit] New books
- William Harrison Ainsworth - Stanley Brereton
- Anonymous - The Great Romance
- 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
- "Jack Saul" - The Sins of the Cities of the Plain
- Joseph Henry Shorthouse - John Inglesant
- Jules Verne - Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon
- Mary Augusta Ward - Milly and Olly
[edit] New drama
- Henrik Ibsen - Ghosts (Gengangere) (published)
[edit] Non-fiction
[edit] Births
- January 9 - Giovanni Papini, Italian writer (died 1956)
- March 25 - Mary Webb, British writer (died 1927)
- October 15 - P. G. Wodehouse, British-American writer (died 1975)
- October 30 - Elizabeth Madox Roberts, novelist and poet (died 1941)
[edit] Deaths
- January 12 - George Robert Aberigh-Mackay - English author (born 1848)
- January 28 - Fyodor Dostoevsky, author (born 1821)
- April 19 - Benjamin Disraeli, writer, politician (born 1804)
