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
 * 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

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)
 * October 30 - Elizabeth Madox Roberts, novelist and poet (d. 1941)

Deaths

 * January 12 - George Robert Aberigh-Mackay - English author (b. 1848)
 * January 28 - Fyodor Dostoevsky, author (b. 1821)
 * April 19 - Benjamin Disraeli, writer, politician (b. 1804)

Awards


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