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Overview of the events of 1881 in literature
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1881 .
Events February 13 – The first issue of the feminist newspaper La Citoyenne Hubertine Auclert in France.March – Ambrose Bierce contributes to the weekly satirical San Francisco magazine The Wasp The Devil's Dictionary [1]
April – William Poel 's production of Shakespeare 's Hamlet St. George's Hall, London , reverts to the first quarto text and avoids elaborate scene changes.[2]
April 23 – Gilbert and Sullivan 's Patience satire on Oscar Wilde and aestheticism , opens with George Grossmith in the lead at the Opera Comique in London.July 7 – Carlo Collodi 's The Adventures of Pinocchio Le avventure di Pinocchio ), a children's story about a wooden puppet in Tuscany , begins serialization in the first issue of Giornale per i Bambini , a supplement to the Roman Sunday newspaper Fanfulla della domenica [3] July 29 – Law on the Freedom of the Press passed in France.August 17 – The Pushkin Prize is established by the Russian Academy of Sciences .[4] October 1 – Robert Louis Stevenson 's children's pirate adventure novel Treasure Island Young Folks Treasure Island; or, The mutiny of the Hispaniola by "Captain George North".[5] The first of the three-volume History of Woman Suffrage Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton in the United States.
Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy 's historical drama Tsar Boris 1870 ) receives its première, posthumously, at Anna Brenko 's Pushkin Theater in Moscow.The literary review and movement La Jeune Belgique Max Waller (Léopold Warlomont).[6]
The Pāli Text Society is founded by British scholar Thomas William Rhys Davids for the study of Pali (Ceylonese ) texts. New books Fiction Children and young people Drama Poetry Non-fiction Births January 9
January 18 – Gaston Gallimard , French publisher (died 1975 )January 28 – Ruby M. Ayres , English romance novelist (died 1955 )February 10 – Boris Zaytsev , Russian novelist and dramatist (died 1972 )February 13 – Eleanor Farjeon , English children's writer and poet (died 1965 )March 4 – Thomas Sigismund Stribling , American novelist (died 1965 )March 14 – Eugeniu Ștefănescu-Est , Romanian poet, novelist and cartoonist (died 1980 )March 17 – Kristian Elster , Norwegian novelist, literary historian and biographer (died 1947 )[8] March 25 – Mary Webb , English novelist (died 1927 )April 14 – Husain Salaahuddin , Maldivian writer (died 1948 )May 13 – Lima Barreto , Brazilian novelist and journalist (died 1922 )July 22 – Margery Williams , English-born American children's writer (died 1944 )August 1 – Rose Macaulay , English novelist, biographer and travel writer (died 1958 )[9] August 2 – Ethel M. Dell , English romantic fiction writer (died 1939 )August 10 – Witter Bynner , American poet and scholar (died 1968 )August 24 – Nicolae Petrescu-Comnen , Romanian social scientist, historian and poet (died 1958 )October 5 – Barbu Lăzăreanu , Romanian literary historian, poet, and communist journalist (died 1957 )October 15 – P. G. Wodehouse , English-born humorous novelist (died 1975 )October 30 – Elizabeth Madox Roberts , American novelist and poet (died 1941 )Dostoyevsky on his bier, drawing by Ivan Kramskoi Deaths January 12 – George Robert Aberigh-Mackay , Anglo-Indian author (tetanus,[10] 1848 )January 28 – Fyodor Dostoevsky , Russian novelist (born 1821 )January 30 – Anna Maria Hall , Irish novelist (born 1800 )March 23 – George Métivier , Guernsey poet writing in Guernésiais (born 1790 )April 19 – Benjamin Disraeli , English novelist and politician (born 1804 )April 24 – James Thomas Fields , American publisher (born 1817 )July 1 – Hermann Lotze , German philosopher (born 1817)July 12 – Caroline Leakey , English poet and novelist (born 1827 )October 13 – Mary Emma Ebsworth , English dramatist (born 1794 )December 13 – August Šenoa , Croatian novelist and critic (born 1804 )Unknown date – Liu Xizai (刘熙载), Chinese scholar and literary critic (born 1813 )In fiction Awards References
^ Swaim, Don. "Ambrose Bierce Chronology" . The Ambrose Bierce Site . Retrieved 2014-02-25 . ^ Thompson, Ann; Taylor, Neil, eds. (2006). Hamlet . The Arden Shakespeare, 3rd series, vol. 1 . London: Arden. pp. 36–39. ISBN 1-904271-33-2 ^ "Il Giornale per i Bambini" . Letteratura dimenticata (in Italian). Retrieved 2015-08-28 .^ Екатерина Варкан. История Пушкинских премий в России. — Октябрь. — № 5, 2007 (Russian)
^ "1881 – Treasure Island" . National Library of Scotland . Retrieved 2014-02-18 .^ "Max Waller" . Encyclopædia Britannica ^ Carver, Stephen (2003). The Life and Works of the Lancashire Novelist William Harrison Ainsworth, 1805–1882 . Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press. ^ Beyer, Edvard ; Moi, Morten. "Kristian Elster" . Store norske leksikon . Retrieved 2010-10-16 .^ Kunitz, Stanley J. ; Haycraft, Howard, eds. (1950). Twentieth Century Authors: A Biographical Dictionary of Modern Literature (3rd ed.). New York: The H.W. Wilson Company. pp. 865–66.^ Dictionary of Indian Biography . Haskell House, 1906.
