1881 in literature

See also: 1880 in literature, other events of 1881, 1882 in literature, list of years in literature. \n

Table of contents

1 Events 2 New Books 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Awards

Events

\n* 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.

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New Books

\n*Asphodel - Mary Elizabeth Braddon\n*The Black Robe - Wilkie Collins \n*The Cryptogram - Jules Verne\n*Eight Hundred Leagues On The Amazon - Jules Verne\n*En menage - Joris-Karl Huysmans \n*God and the Man - Robert Buchanan \n*The Great Infidels - Robert G. Ingersoll\n*Harry Joscelyn - Margaret Oliphant \n*A Little Child's Monument - Roden Berkeley Wriothesley Noël\n*Milly and Olly - Mary Augusta Ward \n*The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James\n*Rajsimha - Bankim Chatterjee \n*The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government - Jefferson Davis\n*Stanley Brereton - William Harrison Ainsworth \n*Sylvestre Bonnard - Anatole France \n

Births

\n* March 25 - Mary Webb, writer (+ 1927)\n* October 15 - P. G. Wodehouse, British-American writer (+ (1975)

Deaths

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

Awards

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