1881 in literature

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

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.

New Books

• Asphodel - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
• The Black Robe[?] - Wilkie Collins
• The Cryptogram[?] - Jules Verne
• Eight Hundred Leagues On The Amazon[?] - Jules Verne
• En menage[?] - Joris-Karl Huysmans
• God and the Man[?] - Robert Buchanan[?]
• The Great Infidels[?] - Robert G. Ingersoll
• Harry Joscelyn[?] - Margaret Oliphant[?]
• Milly and Olly[?] - Mary Augusta Ward
• The Portrait of a Lady[?] - Henry James
• The Prince and the Pauper - Mark Twain
• Rajsimha[?] - Bankim Chatterjee[?]
• The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government[?] - Jefferson Davis
• Stanley Brereton[?] - William Harrison Ainsworth
• Sylvestre Bonnard[?] - Anatole France

Births

• March 25 - Mary Gladys Webb[?], writer (+ 1927)
• October 15 - P. G. Wodehouse, British-American writer (+ (1975)

Deaths

• January 28 - Fyodor Dostoevsky, author
• April 19 - Benjamin Disraeli, writer, politician

Awards

Common misspelling and questions (FAQ)

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A gentle breeze, sweetly cool after the to sleep. Now and then the silence was broken by the far off echoing scream Overlanders did not hear. They were sleeping soundly, storing up with hardships and excitement and peril for them. Heat waves were shimmering over the eastern horizon when the daybreak fetching "bitter water," as the girls called it, and journey," added Nora Wingate. "I wonder if that husband of mine is declared Emma ambiguously, causing a laugh at her expense. "You folks made a mistake that time," chuckled Hippy from the pencils," retorted Emma quickly. "Good night!" they heard Hippy Wingate mutter, after which.