1881 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
• John Inglesant - Joseph Henry Shorthouse
• A Little Child's Monument - Roden Nol
• Milly and Olly - Mary Augusta Ward
• The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James
• 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 Webb, writer (d. 1927)
• October 15 - P. G. Wodehouse, British-American writer (d. 1975)

Deaths

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

Awards

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