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            List of years in literature       (table)
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1878 1879 1880 -1881- 1882 1883 1884
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     In poetry: 1878 1879 1880 -1881- 1882 1883 1884     
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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)

Poetry[]

Main article: 1881 in poetry

Non-fiction[]

  • Jefferson Davis - The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government

Births[]

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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