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1881 literature poetry
July 2020
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1881.
Events
February 13 – The first issue of the feminist newspaper La Citoyenne is published by Hubertine Auclert in France.
March – Ambrose Bierce contributes to the weekly satirical San Francisco magazine The Wasp (becoming editor by July) and resumes his column "Prattle" and the series of cynical definitions which he first calls The Devil's Dictionary.Ambrose Bierce Chronology Don Swaim http://donswaim.com/bierce-chronology.html The Ambrose Bierce Site 2014-02-25
April – William Poel's production of Shakespeare's Hamlet at St. George's Hall, London, reverts to the first quarto text and avoids elaborate scene changes.Thompson, Ann Taylor, Neil 2006 Hamlet The Arden Shakespeare, 3rd series, vol. 1 London Arden 1-904271-33-2 36–39
April 23 – Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera Patience, a satire on Oscar Wilde and aestheticism, opens with George Grossmith in the lead at the Opera Comique in London.
July 7 – Carlo Collodi's The Adventures of Pinocchio (it Le avventure di Pinocchio), a children's story about a wooden puppet in Tuscany, begins to be serialized in the first issue of Giornale per i bambini, a supplement to the Roman Sunday newspaper Fanfulla della domenica.Il Giornale per i Bambini http://www.letteraturadimenticata.it/Giornale%20per%20i%20bambini.htm it Letteratura dimenticata 2015-08-28
July 29 – The Law on the Freedom of the Press is passed in France.
August 17 – The Pushkin Prize is established by the Russian Academy of Sciences.Екатерина Варкан. История Пушкинских премий в России. — Октябрь. — № 5, 2007 (Russian)
October 1 – Robert Louis Stevenson's children's pirate adventure novel Treasure Island begins serialization in the British magazine Young Folks as Treasure Island; or, The mutiny of the Hispaniola by "Captain George North".http://digital.nls.uk/scotlandspages/timeline/1881.html 1881 – Treasure Island National Library of Scotland 2014-02-18
The S. Fischer Verlag publishing house is founded by Samuel Fischer in Berlin.
The first of the three-volume History of Woman Suffrage, is published by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton in the United States.
Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy's historical drama Tsar Boris (ru Царь Борис, published 1870) receives its première, posthumously, at Anna Brenko's Pushkin Theater in Moscow.
The literary review and movement La Jeune Belgique is founded by the poet Max Waller (Léopold Warlomont).Encyclopædia Britannica http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9075983/Max-Waller Max Waller
New books
Fiction
William Harrison Ainsworth – Stanley BreretonCarver Stephen The Life and Works of the Lancashire Novelist William Harrison Ainsworth, 1805–1882 Lewiston Edwin Mellen Press 2003
Emilia Pardo Bazán – es Un viaje de novios (A Honeymoon Trip)Emilia Pardo Bazán Un viaje de novios https://books.google.com/books?id=bbf8SoewZIQC 2003 Alianza Editorial 978-84-206-5560-4
Mary Elizabeth Braddon – Asphodel
Robert Buchanan – God and the Man
Bankim Chatterjee – bn Rajsimha
Wilkie Collins – The Black Robe
Machado de Assis – The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas (pt Memorias Posthumas de Braz Cubas)
Antonio Fogazzaro – Malombra
Anatole France – Sylvestre Bonnard
Thomas Hardy – A Laodicean
Henry Honor (anonymously) – The Great Romance
Joris-Karl Huysmans – fr En Ménage
Robert G. Ingersoll – The Great Infidels
Henry James – The Portrait of a Lady
Nikolai Leskov – The Tale of Cross-eyed Lefty from Tula and the Steel Flea (ru «Сказ о тульском косом Левше и о стальной блохе», Skaz o Tulskom kosom Levshe i o stalnoy Blokhe)
Margaret Oliphant – Harry Joscelyn
"Jack Saul" – The Sins of the Cities of the Plain
Joseph Henry Shorthouse – John Inglesant
Anthony Trollope – Doctor Wortle's School and Ayala's Angel
Giovanni Verga – I Malavoglia (translated as The House by the Medlar-Tree)
Jules Verne – Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon (fr La Jangada - Huit cents lieues sur l'Amazone)
Children and young people
Joel Chandler Harris – Uncle Remus
Talbot Baines Reed – The Fifth Form at St. Dominic's
Bram Stoker – Under the Sunset
Mrs. Humphry Ward – Milly and Olly
Drama
Henrik Ibsen
Ghosts (no Gengangere) (published)
Catiline (first performed (published 1850))
William Young – Pendragon
Poetry
Roden Noël – A Little Child's Monument
Non-fiction
Abel Boyer (d. 1729) – Boyer's French-English and English-French Dictionary
Florence Caddy – la Lares et Penates, or, The Background of Life
Thomas Carlyle – Reminiscences
Jefferson Davis – The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government
Warren Felt Evans – The Divine Law of Cure
Walter Gregor – Notes on the Folk-Lore of the North-East of Scotland
Alice Diehl (as Aston Leigh) – The Story of Philosophy
North-Western Provinces – Weekly Notes of Cases Decided by the High Court, N.-w. P
Hermann Schultz – de Die Lehre von der Gottheit Christi (The Lesson of Christ's Divinity)
Alfred Percy Sinnett – The Occult World
John Francon Williams – The Geography of the Oceans
Births
January 9
Lascelles Abercrombie, English poet and literary critic (died 1938)
Giovanni Papini, Italian writer (died 1956)
January 18 – Gaston Gallimard, French publisher (died 1975)
January 28 – Ruby M. Ayres, English romance novelist (died 1955)
February 10 – Boris Zaytsev, Russian novelist and dramatist (died 1972)
February 13 – Eleanor Farjeon, English children's writer and poet (died 1965)Campbell Margaret Farjeon, Eleanor D.L. Kirkpatrick Twentieth-century Children's Writers London Macmillan 1978 978-0-33323-414-3 426
March 4 – Thomas Sigismund Stribling, American novelist (died 1965)
March 14 – Eugeniu Ștefănescu-Est, Romanian poet, novelist and cartoonist (died 1980)
March 17 – Kristian Elster, Norwegian novelist, literary historian and biographer (died 1947)Kristian Elster Edvard Beyer Edvard Beyer Morten Moi Store norske leksikon Kunnskapsforlaget Oslo http://www.snl.no/Kristian_Elster Norwegian 2010-10-16
March 25 – Mary Webb, English novelist (died 1927)Gladys Mary Coles Mary Webb https://books.google.com/books?id=YXxbAAAAMAAJ 1990 Seren Books 978-1-85411-034-3 17
April 14 – Husain Salaahuddin, Maldivian writer (died 1948)
May 6 – Gregorio Martínez Sierra, Spanish playwright (died 1947)
May 13 – Lima Barreto, Brazilian novelist and journalist (died 1922)
June 24 – George Shiels, Northern Irish dramatist (died 1949)
July 22 – Margery Williams, English-born American children's writer (died 1944)
August 1 – Rose Macaulay, English novelist, biographer and travel writer (died 1958)Kunitz, Stanley J. Stanley J. Kunitz Haycraft, Howard Twentieth Century Authors: A Biographical Dictionary of Modern Literature 3rd New York The H.W. Wilson Company 1950 865–66
August 2 – Ethel M. Dell, English romantic fiction writer (died 1939)
August 10 – Witter Bynner, American poet and scholar (died 1968)
August 24 – Nicolae Petrescu-Comnen, Romanian social scientist, historian and poet (died 1958)
October 5 – Barbu Lăzăreanu, Romanian literary historian, poet, and communist journalist (died 1957)
October 15 – P. G. Wodehouse, English-born American humorous novelist (died 1975)
October 30 – Elizabeth Madox Roberts, American novelist and poet (died 1941)
November 28 – Stefan Zweig, Austrian novelist and playwright (died 1942)
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Deaths
January 12 – George Robert Aberigh-Mackay, Anglo-Indian author (tetanus,Dictionary of Indian Biography. Haskell House, 1906. born 1848)
January 28 – Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian novelist (born 1821)
January 30 – Anna Maria Hall, Irish novelist (born 1800)Seamus Deane Angela Bourke Andrew Carpenter Jonathan Williams The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing https://books.google.com/books?id=qZ6W1LiIyYYC&pg=PA528 2002 NYU Press 978-0-8147-9907-9 528
February 5 – Thomas Carlyle, Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher (born 1795)
March 23 – George Métivier, Guernsey poet writing in Guernésiais (born 1790)
April 19 – Benjamin Disraeli, English novelist and politician (born 1804)Jonathan Parry Benjamin Disraeli https://books.google.com/books?id=kKkzv_iyVgoC&pg=RA1-PT50 23 April 2007 OUP Oxford 978-0-19-164751-2
April 24 – James T. Fields, American publisher (born 1817)
July 1 – Hermann Lotze, German philosopher (born 1817)
July 12 – Caroline Leakey, English poet and novelist (born 1827)Horner, J. C., 'Leakey, Caroline Woolmer (1827–1881)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, accessed 11 May 2012.
October 13 – Mary Emma Ebsworth, English dramatist (born 1794)
November 1 – Jacques Perk, Dutch poet (born 1859)
December 13 – August Šenoa, Croatian novelist and critic (born 1804)
unknown date – Liu Xizai (刘熙载 no), Chinese scholar and literary critic (born 1813)
References
External links
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