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[?]
• 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